Evan E. Eichler
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Evan Eichler photographed by Ron Wurzer
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| Residence | Seattle, WA |
| Fields | Genomics Segmental duplication Copy-number variation Autism spectrum disorder Developmental delay Gene duplication[1] |
| Institutions | University of Washington Howard Hughes Medical Institute University of Saskatchewan Baylor College of Medicine Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich University of Saskatchewan[2] |
| Alma mater | University of Saskatchewan (B.Sc.) Baylor College of Medicine (Ph.D.) |
| Doctoral advisor | David Nelson[citation needed] |
| Notable awards | Newcomb Cleveland Prize Curt Stern Award (2008) Member of the National Academy of Sciences |
| Website eichlerlab www |
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Evan E. Eichler, Ph.D. is an investigator at Howard Hughes Medical Institute studying human genome evolution, genome variation and their role in diseases. He is also a Professor of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle.[3][4][1][5][6]
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Education
Eichler was educated at the University of Saskatchewan and Baylor College of Medicine where he was awarded his PhD in 1995[2] for work on the FMR1 gene.[7]
Research
Eichler is considered one of the experts in genome instability studies,[8] segmental duplication and structural variation.[1][9]
Awards
- Eichler is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[10]
- Eichler received the 2008 Curt Stern Award from the American Society of Human Genetics.[11]
- He was a co-recipient of the 2010 Newcomb Cleveland Prize by the American Association for the Advancement of Science as one of the co-authors of the May 2010 paper in Science[12] on draft sequencing of the Neanderthal genome.[13][14]
- Eichler is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences.[15]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Evan E. Eichler's publications indexed by Google Scholar, a service provided by Google
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- ↑ Faculty profile, U. Washington Genome Sciences, retrieved 2011-07-14.
- ↑ List of publications from Microsoft Academic Search
- ↑ Evan E. Eichler's publications indexed by the DBLP Bibliography Server at the University of Trier
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- ↑ Nine named AAAS Fellows, University week, University of Washington, November 30, 2006. Accessed July 14, 2011
- ↑ Past ASHG Award Recipients, American Society of Human Genetics. Accessed July 14, 2011
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- ↑ Newcomb Cleveland Prize Recipients, American Association for the Advancement of Science. Accessed July 14, 2011
- ↑ Draft Sequence of Neandertal Genome Wins the 2010 Newcomb Cleveland Prize, Supported by Affymetrix, American Association for the Advancement of Science. Accessed July 14, 2011
- ↑ National Academy of Sciences Members and Foreign Associates Elected, "NAS News", 2012
