Mark Siegal

Shuang Li, Joyce Kao and Kerry Geiler-Samerotte gave excellent talks at The Allied Genetics Conference 2016 in Orlando. Some highlights from Twitter:

Mark was in the first cohort of recipients of the new MIRA (“Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award”) grant mechanism from NIGMS. This five-year grant supports the lab’s work on variation in complex traits, rather than a specific project. Mark is thrilled to be part of the MIRA “experiment” and thinks it’s one of the most important

Joyce Kao was awarded a Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA postdoctoral fellowship!