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BBI takes advantage of Seattle’s culture of collaboration in technology and the health sciences, and its leadership in genomics, bioinformatics, and data science.
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BBI's annual Long-Read Sequencing Symposium is set for Sept. 16th, 10 am to 4:30 pm; poster session - 11:45 to 12:50. Location is UW's Foege Hall South, 3720 15th Ave NE, Seattle. Visit Redcap for details/registration; registration ends Sept. 5 at 12 noon.
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August 26, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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We’ve got two exciting VESS speakers lined up for July 1 🤩
🎙️Daniel Zimmerman postdoc @pittdeptofmed.bsky.social
🎙️Frederik Filip Vinggaard Stæger @ffstaeger.bsky.social postdoc at Univ. of Copenhagen
Info + Zoom link: varianteffect.org/seminar-series
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June 16, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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POSTDOC ALERT: Applications now open for SeaBridge postdoc fellowship; opportunity to work on leading-edge biotech w/researchers at the Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology.
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New Postdoc Fellowship Program Builds on Innovative SeattleHub Research | Brotman Baty Institute
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June 16, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Zachary Amador, left, scientist w/Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology, explains to artist Ranger Liu an experiment using DNA - they are collaborating togther in the Fred Hutch SxAffold "encounter" this week among artists & scientists.
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June 5, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Ranger Liu, artist & physicist working on a Ph.D. in Astronomy at UW, is working w/a SeattleHub researcher as part of SxAffold, the weeklong collaboration among scientists & artists at the Hutch. Photo by Connor O’Shaughnessy / Fred Hutch
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June 3, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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TOMORROW - June 3 - at 9 AM - The Variant Effects Seminar Series will feature Ben Li (U of Michigan) & Vahid Aslanzadeh (U of Edinburgh) Details: www.varianteffect.org/seminar-seri...
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June 2, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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MS 2025 Update: @cwjpugh.bsky.social presents on 'Breaking the Scaling Barrier in Protein Variant Effect Prediction."
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May 22, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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May 22, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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Update from MSS 2025 in Barcelona: Dave Adams of Wellcome-Sanger presents on how genetic variation impacts cancer disease risk. Photo: Jonathan Frazer @jonnyfrazer.bsky.social
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May 21, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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MSS 2025 is underway in Barcelona. Many thanks to Jonathan Frazier for posting updates regularly. Several BBI researchers are participating.
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May 20, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Let’s get this party started! Kicking off workshop 1 of #VariantEffect25 we have Albert Escobedo — From Fitness to Free Energy: Thermodynamic Modeling of Protein DMS Data for Accurate Genetic Prediction with MoCHI 🍡🧬
May 20, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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'Science can feel like magic. When you begin to understand how and why things work, it’s incredible.'
Learn more about Katie Partington, an 'intellectually adventurous' promising young scientist in the lab of BBI's Dr. Doug Fowler.
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May 16, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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New paper by UW Medicine's Colin Pritchard clears up confusion on treating ‘passenger’ vs. ‘driver’ mutations in BRCA1 and 2 genes. Learn more.
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May 15, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Hi Jonathan, we at BBI are looking forward to your posts next week from MSS 2025 from Barcelona. Cheers!
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May 14, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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HUGE congrats Lara Muffley - honored w/ UW Distinguished Staff Award for Collaboration - advancing world-class research on genetic variants on behalf of BBI
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May 13, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Are you or someone you know affected by Hemophilia B? BBI's Drs. Jill Johnsen & Doug Fowler have advanced genetic understandinng of the blood disorder. Learn more.
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New Mutational Scanning Method Advances Genetic Understanding of Hemophilia B | Brotman Baty Institute
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May 8, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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AI & Precision Medicine: The Stuart and Molly Sloan Precision Oncology Institute at Fred Hutch Cancer Center is hosting a symposium on AI, on Tuesday, May 20. Learn how AI is shaping treatment, diagnosis & prevention strategies for cancer.
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Stuart and Molly Sloan Precision Oncology Institute AI Symposium
The Stuart and Molly Sloan Precision Oncology Institute is hosting an AI Symposium, which will feature a panel of local and national leaders in the field who will deliver talks and join in discussions...
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May 2, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Next up for the Variant Effects Seminar Series: Tuesday, 6 May, 9am (Pacific) w/ Timothy Tan (U of Illinois) & Mustafa Tekpinar (Van Yüzüncü Yıl University).
Details: www.varianteffect.org/seminar-seri...
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May 1, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Check out the newly refreshed Atlas of Variant Effects website: www.varianteffect.org/for A smoother & more intuitive experience. Kudos to the Wellcome Sanger Webdev team for their work
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April 25, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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One never knows the power and persuasion of elementary school teachers. Jonas ("Gus") Gustafson's fifth grade instructor 'allowed me to establish a life-long knack and passion for STEM.’
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April 21, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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New study in Genome Biology: Guidelines for releasing a variant effect predictor - 'enhance personalized medicine & genetic disease understanding, aligning w/calls for standardized, rigorous VEP practices in genomic medicine'
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Guidelines for releasing a variant effect predictor - Genome Biology
Computational methods for assessing the likely impacts of mutations, known as variant effect predictors (VEPs), are widely used in the assessment and interpretation of human genetic variation, as well...
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April 16, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Looking Ahead: Mutational Scanning Symposium 2025, May 21-23, Barcelona, features Kresten Lindorff-Larsen addressing interface between variant effects & interpretation. Learn more: brotmanbaty.org/news/spotlig...
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April 14, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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'The lives of cells, recorded:' Nature perspective reflects foundational principles of Seattle Hub & 'further(s) our understanding of cell decisions over time, given their cellular ancestry & past cell trajectories.'
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April 9, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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TOMORROW - 9 am (Pacific) Variant Effects Seminar - Presentations by Joyce Kang (Harvard-MIT) and Yiyun Rao (Penn State)
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Learn more: www.varianteffect.org/seminar-series
March 31, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Mark your calendars now. The next variant effects seminar is Monday, 1 April, 9 am (Pacific), featuring Joyce Kang @harvard.edu @broadinstitute.org & Yiyun Rao @pennstateuniv.bsky.social.
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Learn more:
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March 27, 2025 at 4:56 PM