Nicole was awarded an NLM fellowship from the Biomedical Informatics training grant. This is a huge deal for our lab; our first student on the training grant.

Shale was the first author on this paper The development of next-generation sequencing assays for the mitochondrial genome and 108 nuclear genes associated with mitochondrial disorders in J Mol Diagn.

Keith is moving ahead with his pneumonia project and he is scheduled to collect control naso-pharangeal samples next week.

Karen attended the International Conference for Biomedical Ontology, in Montreal, in July and presented a paper: Exploring the use of ontologies and automated reasoning to manage selection of reportable condition lab tests from LOINC. Matthew Brush (OHSU) presented ‘What’s in a genotype?’. This will be the focus of our phenotype RCN ontology-a-thon planned for the fall.

Karen was part of a Ustar proposal for ‘Genetic Discovery’ in June, with Mark Yandell, Lynn Jorde and Mariah Mayer. More about this at a later date.

The RCKMS knowledge management group that Karen is a co-lead of, is wrapping up and in the last stage of documentation and recommendation. This has been an amazing introduction into the workings and data-flow in public health.

Karen is now serving on the School of Medicine’s parental leave committee, and has accepted a role on the BMI admissions committee for fall 2013. Her tenure and promotion to Associate Professor became real on the 1st July.

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