Alumni in the News

January 12, 2012

Greg Barsh

UW MSTP alumni Greg Barsh (entered ’77, graduated ’84) was recently invited back to the UW to give two lectures. He gave a presentation on November 30th for the Division of Medical Genetics and on December 3 for the Department of Biology. Dr. Barsh studies the genetic and developmental basis for mammalian color patterns. He…

January 2, 2012

Dan Miller publishes paper in Nature

UW MSTP alumni Dan Miller (entered ’90, graduated ’96) recently figured out the mysterious genetics of a form of muscular dystrophy, known as FSHD. The paper is published in Nature. As Dr. Miller explained in an article article in UW Today, “Most genetic mutations reduce the production of a protein, or a mutated gene might…