Lea Starita @leastarita.bsky.social · 23/11/2025The amazing @shawnfayer.bsky.social has developed a saturation genome editing method in iPSCs enabling MAVEs in differentiated cell types and diploid contexts. Please check it out! And, for some lucky department, Shawn is on the faculty job market! 172
Reposted by Lea StaritaJonathan Frazer @jonnyfrazer.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Welcome back from the break! Next up @juliadiumenge.bsky.social from @alloxbio.bsky.social Mapping allosteric sites at scale to develop better drugs 094
Reposted by Lea StaritaJonathan Frazer @jonnyfrazer.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Next up at #VariantEffect25: Translating computational genomics into clinical clarity we have @shawnfayer.bsky.social from @uwgenome.bsky.social presenting "A cluster-based method for guiding the use of variant effect predictors in clinical variant classification clinical clarity" 0114
Reposted by Lea StaritaDoug Fowler @dougfowler.bsky.social · 15/05/2025Our "Atlas of Variant Effects 2030 Roadmap" is live: zenodo.org/records/1542... 1/nzenodo.orgAtlas of Variant Effects 2030 Roadmap: resolving human variants of uncertain significanceAt the Clinical Atlas of Variant Effects meeting (CLAVE meeting, July 2024, Pittsburgh USA), we developed recommendations for a draft atlas that can be realized by 2030, with a focus on empowering gen... 13727
Reposted by Lea StaritaLara Muffley @muffley.bsky.social · 16/12/2024 📣 We are #Hiring: Program Operation Specialist @brotmanbaty.bsky.social and UW Dept of Genome Science Full-Time | Seattle, WA Apply Now! 🌟 Details ⬇️ tinyurl.com/UWProgramOpe... 041
Lea Starita @leastarita.bsky.social · 14/12/2024The one benefit of the US Senate's average age being approximately 103...they predate routine vaccinations! www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/u...nytimes.comMcConnell Defends Polio Vaccine, an Apparent Warning to RFK Jr.“Efforts to undermine public confidence in proven cures are not just uninformed — they’re dangerous,” said the Republican leader, who is a polio survivor. 1241
Reposted by Lea StaritaLara Muffley @muffley.bsky.social · 13/11/2024Opportunity Alert! Open Call for New Members of the AVE Executive Committee. ℹ️ 📝 www.varianteffect.org/leadership-o... Deadline to submit an application and indicate your interest in joining is December 20th, 2024.varianteffect.orgAVE EC Open Call — Atlas of Variant Effects Alliance 013
Reposted by Lea StaritaJulie Bell @juliembell.bsky.social · 09/11/2024McSweeney’s is spot on, as always. 1254
Reposted by Lea StaritaAlison Feder @alisonfeder.bsky.social · 08/11/2024I made a starter pack of folks affiliated with UW Genome Sciences (past and present) go.bsky.app/L8RAbiJ It's fairly sparse for now, so please let me know if you'd like to be added!go.bsky.appUW Genome SciencesJoin the conversation 42013
Reposted by Lea StaritaLara Muffley @muffley.bsky.social · 06/08/2024The Atlas of Variant Effects (AVE) Alliance is an international community of researchers, analysts, clinicians, patients and funders working with and alongside major genomics and genetics initiatives and consortia... t.co/GlAMeAKVQI 101
Reposted by Lea StaritaCarol F @cfpdx.bsky.social · 29/06/2024Biden's asylum ban leads to three more deaths in the desert, where two men, ages 44 and 18, and a 17-year-old girl were found. abc17news.com/news/ap-nati...abc17news.comScorching heat in the US Southwest kills three migrants in the desert near the Arizona-Mexico border - ABC17NEWSAssociated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Three Mexican migrants have died in the Sonoran Desert in Arizona near the U.S.-Mexico border. The deaths come as temperatures hit the triple digits across parts of the... 023
Reposted by Lea StaritaGregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 12/03/2024I don't think biomedical researchers realize how much is at stake with the upcoming election. Take a look at some snippets from Project2025, the blueprint for the next Trump Administration and then be afraid. Then get organized. Ignoring it and putting our heads in the sand is not an option. 10282166
