Evan E. Eichler

Evan Eichler

Evan Eichler photographed by Ron Wurzer
Residence Seattle, WA
Fields Genomics
Segmental duplication
Copy-number variation
Autism spectrum disorder
Developmental delay
Gene duplication[1]
Institutions University of Washington
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
University of Saskatchewan
Baylor College of Medicine
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
University of Saskatchewan[2]
Alma mater University of Saskatchewan (B.Sc.)
Baylor College of Medicine (Ph.D.)
Doctoral advisor David Nelson
Notable awards Newcomb Cleveland Prize
Curt Stern Award (2008)
Member of the National Academy of Sciences
Website
eichlerlab.gs.washington.edu
www.hhmi.org/research/investigators/eichler_bio.html

Evan E. Eichler, Ph.D. is an investigator at Howard Hughes Medical Institute studying human genome evolution, genome variation and their role in diseases. He is also a Professor of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle.[3][4][1][5][6]

Education

Eichler was educated at the University of Saskatchewan and Baylor College of Medicine where he was awarded his PhD in 1995[2] for work on the FMR1 gene.[7]

Research

Eichler is considered one of the experts in genome instability studies,[8] segmental duplication and structural variation.[1][9]

Awards

References

  1. 1 2 3 Evan E. Eichler's publications indexed by Google Scholar, a service provided by Google
  2. 1 2 "Eichler Lab". Archived from the original on 2013-06-06.
  3. "New methods detect subtleties in human genomes' repetitive landscapes". PhysOrg.com. 27 October 2010. Retrieved 27 June 2011.
  4. Faculty profile, U. Washington Genome Sciences, retrieved 2011-07-14.
  5. List of publications from Microsoft Academic Search
  6. Evan E. Eichler's publications indexed by the DBLP Bibliography Server at the University of Trier
  7. Eichler, E. E.; Richards, S.; Gibbs, R. A.; Nelson, D. L. (1993). "Fine structure of the human FMR1 gene". Human Molecular Genetics 2 (8): 1147–1153. doi:10.1093/hmg/2.8.1147. PMID 8401496.
  8. Gitschier, J. (2008). "Stable in a Genome of Instability: An Interview with Evan Eichler". PLoS Genetics 4 (7): e1000124. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1000124. PMC 2442658. PMID 18654618.
  9. Manolio, T. A.; Collins, F. S.; Cox, N. J.; Goldstein, D. B.; Hindorff, L. A.; Hunter, D. J.; McCarthy, M. I.; Ramos, E. M.; Cardon, L. R.; Chakravarti, A.; Cho, J. H.; Guttmacher, A. E.; Kong, A.; Kruglyak, L.; Mardis, E.; Rotimi, C. N.; Slatkin, M.; Valle, D.; Whittemore, A. S.; Boehnke, M.; Clark, A. G.; Eichler, E. E.; Gibson, G.; Haines, J. L.; MacKay, T. F. C.; McCarroll, S. A.; Visscher, P. M. (2009). "Finding the missing heritability of complex diseases". Nature 461 (7265): 747–753. doi:10.1038/nature08494. PMC 2831613. PMID 19812666.
  10. Nine named AAAS Fellows, University week, University of Washington, November 30, 2006. Accessed July 14, 2011
  11. Past ASHG Award Recipients, American Society of Human Genetics. Accessed July 14, 2011
  12. Green, R. E.; Krause, J.; Briggs, A. W.; Maricic, T.; Stenzel, U.; Kircher, M.; Patterson, N.; Li, H.; Zhai, W.; Fritz, M. H. Y.; Hansen, N. F.; Durand, E. Y.; Malaspinas, A. S.; Jensen, J. D.; Marques-Bonet, T.; Alkan, C.; Prüfer, K.; Meyer, M.; Burbano, H. A.; Good, J. M.; Schultz, R.; Aximu-Petri, A.; Butthof, A.; Höber, B.; Höffner, B.; Siegemund, M.; Weihmann, A.; Nusbaum, C.; Lander, E. S.; Russ, C. (2010). "A Draft Sequence of the Neandertal Genome". Science 328 (5979): 710–722. doi:10.1126/science.1188021. PMID 20448178.
  13. Newcomb Cleveland Prize Recipients, American Association for the Advancement of Science. Accessed July 14, 2011
  14. Draft Sequence of Neandertal Genome Wins the 2010 Newcomb Cleveland Prize, Supported by Affymetrix, American Association for the Advancement of Science. Accessed July 14, 2011
  15. National Academy of Sciences Members and Foreign Associates Elected, "NAS News", 2012


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