Evan E Eichler

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Doctoral advisor David Nelson		Name Evan Eichler

Fields GenomicsSegmental duplicationCopy-number variationAutism spectrum disorderDevelopmental delayGene duplication Institutions University of WashingtonHoward Hughes Medical InstituteUniversity of SaskatchewanBaylor College of MedicineLawrence Livermore National LaboratoryLudwig Maximilian University of MunichUniversity of Saskatchewan Alma mater University of Saskatchewan (B.Sc.)Baylor College of Medicine (Ph.D.) Notable awards Newcomb Cleveland PrizeCurt Stern Award (2008)Member of the National Academy of Sciences Education Baylor College of Medicine Residence Seattle, Washington, United States

Opening Remarks & Keynote Address "Insights into the Genetics of Autism" by Evan E. Eichler, PhD

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.

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

Eichler is considered one of the experts in genome instability studies, segmental duplication and structural variation.

Eichler received the 2008 Curt Stern Award from the American Society of Human Genetics.

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 on draft sequencing of the Neanderthal genome.

Eichler is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

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