Genome Advance of the Month

The "Bunny Ear" hypothesis: How defective DNA looping may contribute to cancer

Your DNA forms thousands of "bunny ear" loops, like those of a shoe lace. Your DNA creates "genetic neighborhoods" within each bunny ear loop. These neighborhoods bring distant genes and specific gene control switches into close proximity. The December Genome Advance of the Month highlights a landmark study in Nature that describes what happens when two genetic neighborhoods merge in brain tumor cells. Read more

NHGRI & ASHG seek policy and education fellowship applicants

NHGRI and the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) are now accepting applications for the 2016 Genetics & Public Policy Fellowship and the 2016 Genetics & Education Fellowship. The application period is now open for both fellowships until April 25, 2016.
The Genetics & Public Policy Fellowship
The Genetics & Education Fellowship

New ENCODE funding opportunities released, Webinar scheduled

Information on five new research funding opportunities for the NHGRI ENCyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) Project is now available. To explain these initiatives, a pre-application, information Webinar will be held Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2016, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Eastern. Please see the ENCODE website by Jan. 29 for instructions on participating. Submit questions or comments on the RFAs to ENCODE@mail.nih.gov before Feb. 1. Read more

NIH genome sequencing program targets the genomic bases of common, rare disease

The National Institutes of Health will fund a set of genome sequencing and analysis centers whose research will focus on understanding the genomic bases of common and rare human diseases. On January 14, the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of NIH, launched the Centers for Common Disease Genomics (CCDG), which will use genome sequencing to explore the genomic contributions to common diseases. Read more

The Genomics Landscape

Future of ENCODE: Looking Deeper into Genome Function

Happy New Year! NIH begins 2016 with a budget increase, its first substantive increase in a very long time and much-need funding for biomedical reearch. Beyond this great budget news, we have plenty of things to highlight as we start the new year. In this month's The Genomics Landscape, I feature the next stage of NHGRI's ENCyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) Project, along with other informational items I hope will be of interest to you. Read more