Winners of the Genome Research poster competition sponsored by Oxford Nanopore Technologies at 2012 “The Biology of Genomes” meeting are announced.
Congratulations to Grand Prize winner, David Thybert, who was awarded $500 and a one year personal subscription to Genome Research for his outstanding poster presentation. A postdoctoral fellow at the European Bioinformatics Institute, David presented the poster entitled, “Evolutionary mechanisms and divergence rates of tissue-specific transcription factor binding revealed by analysis in multiple, closely spaced rodent species.”
Click here to view David’s poster.
Dr. David Thybert accepts the Grand Prize at “The Biology of Genomes” meeting. With Dr. Hillary Sussman, Executive Editor of Genome Research (L) and Dr. Robert Majovski, Assistant Editor of Genome Research.
Congratulations also to Second Prize winners Tuuli Lappalainen and Olli Pietilainen, who each won $250 and a one year personal
subscription to Genome Research for their outstanding poster presentations.
Tuuli, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Geneva Medical School, presented the poster entitled, “Integration of
transcriptome and genome sequencing uncovers functional variation in human populations.”
A postdoctoral fellow at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Olli presented the poster entitled, “Recessively inherited
deletion confers risk for schizophrenia and intellectual disability.”
| Click here to view Tuuli’s poster. | Click here to view Olli’s poster. |
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| Dr. Tuuli Lappalainen accepts a Second Prize at “The Biology of Genomes” meeting. With Dr. Hillary Sussman, Executive Editor of Genome Research (L) and Dr. Robert Majovski, Assistant Editor of Genome Research. | Dr. Olli Pietilainen accepts a Second Prize at “The Biology of Genomes” meeting. With Dr. Hillary Sussman, Executive Editor of Genome Research (L) and Dr. Robert Majovski, Assistant Editor of Genome Research. |
Awards were presented May 12, 2012 at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory during the meeting, "The Biology of Genomes." Oxford Nanopore Technologies sponsored the awards.
