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The Duke University Program in Genetics and
Genomics is an umbrella
graduate training program that spans several
basic science and clinical departments and bridges
the medical center and the college of arts and
sciences. There are currently over 100
faculty and adjunct faculty and over 75
students in
the program, which was
founded in 1967 and has
been continuously supported
by a training grant from
the NIH for the past
25 years. Over the past
several decades, the
program has served as an important forum for training
and education in genetics, including model systems
(bacteria, yeast, fungi, drosophila, zebrafish, mouse),
population genetics, and human genetics. We have forged a close link between
the program and the Institute
for Genome Sciences and
Policy (IGSP)
at Duke, which is directed
by Hunt Willard, and
provides for robust,
broad and flexible training
environment that spans both genetics and genome sciences. Read
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Latest News
December 6, 2011
UPGG student Elizabeth Ruzzo receives the Predoctoral Research Training Fellowship from the Epilepsy Foundation. Read more »
November 1, 2011
UPGG students receive Student Science Education Outreach Grant. Read more »
August 18, 2011
The annual UPGG Welcome Picnic will be held Thursday, August 25, 2011 at 5:30 (please note time change). Read more »
June 30, 2011
UPGG graduate student, Teresa O'Meara, is a 2011 DeLill Nasser Award winner. Read more »
June 10, 2011
Featured in a June 8 Scientific American article on the revelations of new autism studies, UPGG faculty member Simon Gregory calls the findings "a good step forward." "Between genetic, genomic and epigenetic, we'll identify what causes the spectrum," he says. Read more »
May 17, 2011
Elizabeth Cirulli, current Duke postdoc and former UPGG student, talks about her career and the launch of the first whole-genome sequencing study of centenarians in Science magazine. Read more »
January 24, 2011
UPGG faculty member Randy Jirtle is co-organizer of a Keystone Environmental Epigenomics meeting. Read more »
January 24, 2011
UPGG student Terry Jackson has been awarded a 2011 Dean's Award for Excellence in Mentoring. Read more »
November 22, 2010
UPGG student Carolyn Sangokoya has been awarded a Keystone Symposia scholarship. Read more »
November 12, 2010
Fourth Annual Marcy Speer Fun Run/Walk To Be Held November 20, 2010. Read more »
October 6, 2010
Beth Sullivan named Co-Director of the UPGG. Read more »
September 24, 2010
Doug Marchuk, Director of UPGG, becomes new Vice-Chair for the Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology at Duke. Read more »
August 5, 2010
Kaitlin Stimpson is awarded an NRSA from the National Institute on Aging. Read more »
June 8, 2010
Cecelia Shertz and Kristin Bompiani, students in the UPGG, have won American Heart Association Fellowships. Read more »
April 28, 2010
Philip Benfey, Paul Kramer Professor of Biology and faculty member of UPGG, is elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Read more »
April 6, 2010
UPGG faculty and students celebrate Duke Men's Basketball NCAA win. Read more »
March 2010
Doug Marchuk, Director of UPGG and Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, is awarded the Gordon G. Hammes Faculty Teaching Award for 2010. Read more »
March 2010
Mohammed A. Noor, Professor and Associate Chair of Biology, and Jayme M. Johnson, graduate student of UPGG, are awarded the 2010 Dean's Awards for Excellence in Mentoring. Read more » |
