News Archive
Collaboration with Bargmann lab featured on Rockefeller Newswire
The Kruglyak lab's collaboration with Rockefeller University reseacher Cori Bargmann's lab is the subject of a story on the Rockefeller website. Titled Genes help worms decide where to dine, the piece examines what happens when a microscopic worm ponders whether to stay on a patch of bacteria it is eating, or move on. The research, which is the subject of an April 21 article in Nature, has implications for decision-making across a lot of different animals, according to Bargmann. (5/18/11)
Dr. Kruglyak's presentation at The 3rd Annual Joint Conference on Systems Biology, Regulatory Genomics, and Reverse Engineering Challenges eBriefing is now posted to The New York Academy of Sciences web site. It can be accessed here in the Meeting Report section, under the Genetics Interactions heading. (4/26/11)
Kruglyak paper featured in Science
Biologists at NYU and Princeton Genome Centers Find Genetic Explanation for Evolutionary Change: Location, Location, Location
A gene’s location on a chromosome plays a significant role in shaping how an organism’s traits vary and evolve, according to findings by genome biologists at New York University’s Center for Genomic and Systems Biology and Princeton University’s Lewis-Sigler Institute. The research was conducted by Matthew V. Rockman, an assistant professor at New York University who was previously a postdoctoral student in the Kruglyak lab, as well as Sonja S. Skrovanek and Dr. Kruglyak at Princeton. Their research, which appears in the latest issue of the journal Science, suggests that evolution is less a function of what a physical trait is and more a result of where the genes that affect that trait reside in the genome. (read more)
Leonid Kruglyak is profiled in current issue of The Scientist. The article describes his research on model organisms, and how he designed experiments designed to tease apart the intricate interactions underlying complex genetic traits in yeast and worms. (8/1/10)
Postdoctoral student Justin Gerke has been selected to receive a Life Sciences Research Foundation Fellowship. (7/10)
Leonid Kruglyak has been named to the prestigious Board of Reviewing Editors of Science, effective July 6, 2010. The international weekly journal is published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Members of the board are highly respected leaders in their own fields who also possess the breadth of knowledge to evaluate research outside their own areas.
Writing in the April 15 edition of Nature, scientists led by Leonid Kruglyak report that they have developed a straightforward method for studying millions of yeast cells at the same time. This new way to identify the hidden genetic material responsible for complex traits represents a breakthrough they believe ultimately could lead to a deeper understanding of how multiple genes interact to produce everything from blue eyes to blood pressure problems. (Read more)( 4/15/2010 ) Listen to Dr. Kruglyak's Nature Podcast.
Seidel receives Weintraub Award
Hannah Seidel is one of thirteen graduate students from North America chosen to receive the 2010 Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award sponsored by the Basic Sciences Division of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Nominations were solicited internationally; the winners were selected on the basis of the quality, originality and significance of their work. The recipients, all advanced students at or near the completion of their studies in the biological sciences, will participate in a scientific symposium May 7 at the Hutchinson Center. (Read more) (3/8/10)
Kruglyak work on NHGRI panel featured in Nature
Leonid Kruglyak was part of an expert panel the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) convened earlier this year on the problem of missing heritability. The missing heritability problem refers to the fact that despite major technology advances made possible by the Human Genome Project, and studies of tens of thousands of individuals, the great majority of the genetic factors responsible for differences between individuals in disease susceptibility and in normal traits such as height have not been found.
Their work has led to a review article in Nature , “Finding the Missing Heritability of Complex Diseases,” reporting the panel's conclusions about the likely sources of this problem and the most promising future research directions for the human genetics community to uncover the genetic basis of human variation. (10/07/09)
Postdoctoral students Erik Andersen and Ian Ehrenreich received Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards from the NIH. (09/09)
Graduate student Zia Khan's research is featured in the Journal of Proteome Research. (09/09)
Graduate student Joshua Bloom has been selected to receive a 2009 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.
Graduate student Hannah Seidel's research is featured in The Scientist. (04/09)
Leonid Kruglyak is the subject of an Author column in the March 19 issue of Nature in connection with the lab's Letter in the same issue, "Comprehensive polymorphism survey elucidates population structure of Saccharomyces cerevisiae." (3/19/09)
5/27/2008 - Leonid Kruglyak selected Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute