Evan E. Eichler

Evan Eichler
Evan Eichler photographed by Ron Wurzer
Residence	Seattle, WA
Fields	Genomics Segmental duplication Copy-number variation Autism spectrum disorder Developmental delay Gene duplication[1]
Institutions	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[2]
Alma mater	University of Saskatchewan (B.Sc.) Baylor College of Medicine (Ph.D.)
Doctoral advisor	David Nelson
Notable awards	Newcomb Cleveland Prize Curt Stern Award (2008) Member of the National Academy of Sciences
Website eichlerlab.gs.washington.edu www.hhmi.org/research/investigators/eichler_bio.html

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.^{[1][3][4][5][6]}

Education

Eichler was educated at the University of Saskatchewan and Baylor College of Medicine where he was awarded his PhD in 1995^[2] for work on the FMR1 gene.^[7]

Research

Eichler is considered one of the experts in genome instability studies,^[8] segmental duplication and structural variation.^[1][9]

Awards

• Eichler is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.^[10]
• Eichler received the 2008 Curt Stern Award from the American Society of Human Genetics.^[11]
• 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^[12] on draft sequencing of the Neanderthal genome.^[13][14]
• Eichler is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences.^[15]

References

1. Evan E. Eichler's publications indexed by Google Scholar
2. "Eichler Lab". Archived from the original on 2013-06-06.
3. "New methods detect subtleties in human genomes' repetitive landscapes". PhysOrg.com. 27 October 2010. Retrieved 27 June 2011.
4. Faculty profile, U. Washington Genome Sciences, retrieved 2011-07-14.
5. List of publications from Microsoft Academic Search
6. Evan E. Eichler at DBLP Bibliography Server
7. Eichler, E. E.; Richards, S.; Gibbs, R. A.; Nelson, D. L. (1993). "Fine structure of the human FMR1 gene". Human Molecular Genetics. 2 (8): 1147–1153. doi:10.1093/hmg/2.8.1147. PMID 8401496.
8. Gitschier, J. (2008). "Stable in a Genome of Instability: An Interview with Evan Eichler". PLoS Genetics. 4 (7): e1000124. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1000124. PMC 2442658. PMID 18654618.
9. 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.; 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. (2009). "Finding the missing heritability of complex diseases". Nature. 461 (7265): 747–753. doi:10.1038/nature08494. PMC 2831613. PMID 19812666.
10. Nine named AAAS Fellows, University week, University of Washington, November 30, 2006. Accessed July 14, 2011
11. Past ASHG Award Recipients, American Society of Human Genetics. Accessed July 14, 2011
12. Green, R. E.; Krause, J.; Briggs, A. W.; Maricic, T.; Stenzel, U.; Kircher, M.; Patterson, N.; Li, H.; Zhai, W.; Fritz, 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. (2010). "A Draft Sequence of the Neandertal Genome". Science. 328 (5979): 710–722. doi:10.1126/science.1188021. PMID 20448178.
13. Newcomb Cleveland Prize Recipients, American Association for the Advancement of Science. Accessed July 14, 2011
14. Draft Sequence of Neandertal Genome Wins the 2010 Newcomb Cleveland Prize, Supported by Affymetrix, American Association for the Advancement of Science. Accessed July 14, 2011
15. National Academy of Sciences Members and Foreign Associates Elected, "NAS News", 2012