EEichler

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Evan Eichler is an Associate Professor of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington. The long-term goal of his research is to understand the evolution, pathology and mechanisms of recent gene duplication and DNA transposition within the human genome. His work involves the systematic discovery of these regions, the development of methods to assess their variation, the detection of signatures of rapid gene evolution and ultimately the correlation of this genetic variation with phenotypic differences within and between species.

He graduated with a B.Sc. Honors degree in Biology from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada in 1990. He received his Ph.D. in 1995 from the Department of Molecular and Human Genetics at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston where he worked on mechanisms of triplet repeat instability.   After two postdoctoral fellowships at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Roswell Park Cancer Institute, he joined the faculty of CaseWestern Reserve University in 1997. His honors include a "Distinguished Human Genome Postdoctoral Fellowship" from the Department of Energy (1995-1997), a Basil O'Connor Award from the March of Dimes (1998-2000) and participation as a member of the Human Genome Sequencing Analysis group (2000-2004). He is currently an editor of Genome Research and on the editorial board of BMC Genomics and the American Journal of Human Genetics.  He is an executive committee member of the Center for Computational Genomics at CWRU and has served on various scientific advisory boards for the National Institute of Health and National Science Foundation.
Website: http://genetics.gene.cwru.edu/eichler/
 

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