Human Genetics Dispatch
Current Spring 2024 Edition
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Addendum 1: Medical Genetics, March 2024 (a remarkable patient story)
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Addendum 2: ACMG 2024 (roundup of meeting)
Dispatch Archives
2024 Spotlight News Story
Emory Brain Organoid Hub Workshop, 10/14-10/18/24
The Brain Organoid Hub is a cooperative venture of Dr. Jimena Andersen, Dr. Fikri Birey, and Dr. Steven Sloan's labs. The hub's upcoming 5-day workshop will offer an immersive opportunity to learn the mechanics of brain organoid culture, and will include lectures, hands-on cell culture training by experts, and practical demos of organoid assays and functional readouts. Additional details and application here.
Archived News
2024
Bing Yao and colleagues detail how depletion of TDP-43 facilitates neurodegenerative diseases
New faculty member: Jian Zhou, PhD
2023
Hong Li and William R. Wilcox named to Atlanta magazine's 2023 Top Doctors
In Memoriam: Genetic counselor and pioneer Cecelia Bellcross
Heyman Family Fragile X Trainee Fund
2022
Stephen T. Warren Memorial Symposium
NextGen gives high school students a peek at biomedical research
Hong Li & William Wilcox named Atlanta's Top Clinical Genetics Doctors in 2022
DOHG & DOMG celebrate Rare Diseases Day
Support the Stephen T. Warren Memorial Fund
2021:
Emory Genetics Clinic and CHOA join NORD Rare Disease Center of Excellence network
Maureen Sampson, PhD, named Postdoctoral Enrichment Program Fellow
Dawn Laney, PhD, honored by Emory School of Medicine as an outstanding faculty member
2020:
Emory Fragile X Center: $8 million NIH grant supports next-generation neuroscience