Evan E. Eichler Explained

Evan Eichler
Fields:	Genomics Segmental duplication Copy-number variation Autism spectrum disorder Developmental delay Gene duplication
Workplaces:	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
Alma Mater:	University of Saskatchewan (B.Sc.) Baylor College of Medicine (Ph.D.)
Doctoral Advisor:	David Nelson
Awards:	Newcomb Cleveland Prize Curt Stern Award (2008) Member of the National Academy of Sciences
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Evan E. Eichler 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.^{[1] [2]}

Education

Eichler was educated at the University of Saskatchewan and Baylor College of Medicine where he was awarded his PhD in 1995^[3] for work on the FMR1 gene.^[4]

Research

Eichler is considered one of the experts in genome instability studies,^[5] segmental duplication and structural variation.^[6]

Awards

• Eichler is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.^[7]
• Eichler received the 2008 Curt Stern Award from the American Society of Human Genetics.^[8]
• 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^[9] on draft sequencing of the Neanderthal genome.^{[10] [11]}
• Eichler is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences.^[12]

Notes and References

1. News: New methods detect subtleties in human genomes' repetitive landscapes . . 27 October 2010 . 27 June 2011 .
2. http://www.gs.washington.edu/faculty/eichler.htm Faculty profile
3. Web site: Eichler Lab . 2013-05-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130521030743/http://eichlerlab.gs.washington.edu/evan.html . dead .
4. Eichler . E. E. . Richards . S. . Gibbs . R. A. . Nelson . D. L. . Fine structure of the human FMR1 gene . 10.1093/hmg/2.8.1147 . Human Molecular Genetics . 2 . 8 . 1147–1153 . 1993 . 8401496.
5. Gitschier . J. . Stable in a Genome of Instability: An Interview with Evan Eichler . 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000124 . . 4 . 7 . e1000124 . 2008 . 18654618. 2442658 . free .
6. Manolio . T. A. . Collins . F. S. . Cox . N. J. . Goldstein . D. B. . Hindorff . L. A. . Hunter . D. J. . McCarthy . M. I. . Ramos . E. M. . Cardon . L. R. . 10.1038/nature08494 . Chakravarti . A. . Cho . J. H. . Guttmacher . A. E. . Kong . A. . Kruglyak . L. . Mardis . E. . Rotimi . C. N. . Slatkin . M. . Valle . D. . Whittemore . A. S. . Boehnke . M. . Clark . A. G. . Eichler . E. E. . Gibson . G. . Haines . J. L. . MacKay . T. F. C. . McCarroll . S. A. . Visscher . P. M. . Finding the missing heritability of complex diseases . Nature . 461 . 7265 . 747–753 . 2009 . 19812666. 2831613 . 2009Natur.461..747M .
7. http://www.washington.edu/news/archive/uweek/28486 Nine named AAAS Fellows
8. http://www.ashg.org/pages/awards_pastrecipients.shtml#stern Past ASHG Award Recipients
9. Green . R. E. . Krause . J. . Briggs . A. W. . Maricic . T. . Stenzel . U. . Kircher . M. . Patterson . N. . Li . H. . Zhai . W. . Fritz . 10.1126/science.1188021 . M. H. Y. . Hansen . N. F. . Durand . E. Y. . Malaspinas . A. S. . Jensen . J. D. . Marques-Bonet . T. . Alkan . C. . Prüfer . K. . Meyer . M. . Burbano . H. A. . Good . J. M. . Schultz . R. . Aximu-Petri . A. . Butthof . A. . Höber . B. . Höffner . B. . Siegemund . M. . Weihmann . A. . Nusbaum . C. . Lander . E. S. . Russ . C. . A Draft Sequence of the Neandertal Genome . Science . 328 . 5979 . 710–722 . 2010 . 20448178 . 5100745. 2010Sci...328..710G .
10. http://www.aaas.org/aboutaaas/awards/newcomb/newcomb_winners.shtml Newcomb Cleveland Prize Recipients
11. http://news.aaas.org/2011_annual_meeting/02162010-aaas-newcomb-cleveland-prize.shtml Draft Sequence of Neandertal Genome Wins the 2010 Newcomb Cleveland Prize, Supported by Affymetrix
12. https://web.archive.org/web/20120504002407/http://www.nasonline.org/news-and-multimedia/news/2012_05_01_NAS_Election.html National Academy of Sciences Members and Foreign Associates Elected