Genetics, Genomics & Evolution

Pushing the boundaries of genomic technology development, MCB faculty study the organization of genes into genomes and how these change with evolution in systems that range from classic genetic and developmental models all the way to complex human diseases.

Suggested Courses

Autumn

CONJ 537
Mechanisms of Transcriptional Regulation

MCB 536
Tools for Computational Biology

winter

CONJ 526
Introduction to Systems Biology and Quantitative Approaches to Biomedical Sciences

GENOM 565
Advanced Human Genetics and Genomics

spring

GENOME 541
Introduction to Computational Molecular Biology

Dr. Mary-Claire King awarded the National Medal of Science by President Obama

Translating genomes

From understanding the genetic basis of familial breast cancer risk to probing hidden parts of the human genome to find the genetic basis of autism and other neurological disorders to understanding the genetic conflicts between host and pathogen genomes, MCB Seattle faculty push the boundries of understanding all aspects of genome biology. The University of Washington ranks #6 in Molecular Biology and Genetics graduate studies according to US News and World Report.

Area Of interest Faculty

Featured Research

Area Directors

Faculty Area Directors: Kelley Harris, Harmit Malik

Student Area Directors: Lews Caro, Sam Hart

Lab Openings

Stergachis Lab:
All Quarters, Permanent Position

Epigenetics, Human Disease, Gene Regulation, Clinical Genomics

Feder Lab:
All Quarters, Permanent Position

Evolution, HIV, Cancer, Viruses, Drug resistance, Dynamics

Hsieh Lab:
All Quarters, Permanent Position

Translation control, Cancer Biology, RNA biology, Functional Genomics

Geballe Lab:
Spring, Winter

virus, translation

Singhvi Lab:
All Quarters, Permanent Position

glia, neuron, cell signaling, sensory systems

Beliveau Lab:
All Quarters, Permanent Position

Chromosomes, imaging technologies

Grill Lab:
Permanent Position

proteomics, genetics, neuroscience

Traxler Lab:
Autumn, Spring, Summer, Permanent Position

bacterial conjugation, antibiotic resistance, protein biogenesis,

Berg Lab:
All Quarters, Permanent Position

development, evolution, patterning, morphogenesis, Drosophila, cell signaling

Carvalho Lab:
All Quarters, Permanent Position

Structural Variation, Mendelian Diseases, Complex Rearrangements, Inversions, Robinow Syndrome, Genomic Disorders

Trapnell Lab:
Permanent Position

Single cell genomics, development, gene regulation, chromatin

Blanco-Melo Lab:
Spring, Summer, Permanent Position

Innate immunity, Bioinformatics, Paleovirology

Fowler Lab:
All Quarters, Permanent Position

protein folding, medical genetics, genomics, technology development

MacPherson Lab:
All Quarters, Permanent Position

mouse models, cancer genetics, targeted therapy

Raible (he, him) Lab:
All Quarters, Permanent Position

zebrafish, hair cell, deafness, genetics, crispr

Rawlings Lab:
Spring, Winter, Permanent Position

Gene editing, Immunotherapies, B and T cells

Lein Lab:
Spring, Summer, Winter, Permanent Position

Human brain atlas, single cell transcriptomics, electrophysiology, cellular morphology, enhancer, Alzheimer's disease, gene therapy

Greenberg Lab:
Spring, Winter

Bacterial communication, evolution of cooperation, quorum sensing,

Ha Lab:
All Quarters, Permanent Position

Cancer genomics, liquid biopsies, machine learning, tumor evolution, copy number alterations, structural variation, circulating tumor DNA

Smith Lab:
All Quarters

DNA break repair, genetic recombination

Grundner Lab:
All Quarters, Permanent Position

Global Health, Infectious Disease, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Latency, Genomics, Phosphosignaling

Haffner Lab:
All Quarters, Permanent Position

Prostate Cancer, epigenetics, cell biology

Harris Lab:
Autumn, Permanent Position

population genetics, evolution, mutation rate, mutation spectra, demographic history

Malik Lab:
Autumn, Spring, Winter, Permanent Position

centromeres, heterochromatin, Drosophila, viruses, budding yeast, fission yeast, mitochondria, speciation, retroelements, histone variants, Tetrahymena, bacteria, phage, protein, evolution, cytoskeleton, multigene families, histones

Neitz Lab:
All Quarters, Permanent Position

retina, vision,

Ray Lab:
All Quarters, Permanent Position

autoimmunity, genetic variation, T cells, enhancer biology

Kraemer Lab:
All Quarters, Permanent Position

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Alzheiemer's disease, Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration Neurodegeneration, tau, TDP-43, protein aggregation, proteostasis