News From the Miller Lab
Jan. 10, 2025
Jianing Earns 2025 mim_c Trainee Award!
Big congratulations to Jianing, recipient of a 2025 Trainee Program Award from UW's Microbial Interactions and Microbiome Center! Her project investigates the impact of microbiome composition on graft-vs-host disease severity. 👏
Oct. 1, 2024
BBI Long-read Sequencing Symposium
Register by 10/16 for the 2nd Annual Seattle-area Long-Read Sequencing Symposium. This year's speakers include: Jay Sarthy, Chia Lin Wei, Mitchell Vollger, Jesse Bengtsson, Scott Furlan, and Evan Eichler.
Apr. 1, 2024
1KGP ONT Sequencing Consortium update
The lab has been hard at work analyzing data from the 1000 Genomes Project ONT Sequencing Consortium. See the preprint on medRxiv from our analysis of the first 100 samples sequenced as part of this project, and check out this nice summary from the BBI featuring grad students Sophie, Nihkita, and Gus!
Oct. 16, 2023
Are you a genetics provider?
🧬🧬 Take this survey! 🧬🧬
Miller Lab member KC Kent is surveying providers who order genetic testing about their experience with long-read sequencing and their opinions about LRS as a clinical diagnostic test. No experience with LRS? That's OK – we still want to learn what factors you use to choose a genetic test. All participation is valuable.
Sep. 19, 2023
Long-read Sequencing Symposium
Danny recently sat down for a Q&A about the upcoming Long-Read Sequencing Symposium at Fred Hutch Cancer Center on November 15. Click below to register, or email [email protected] for more information.
Sep. 6, 2023
Congratulations to Sophie G!
Very excited for Miller Lab member Sophie Gibson, who has been awarded an NIH/NHGRI Genome Training Grant through the UW Department of Genome Sciences.
Aug. 29, 2023
On shelves now!
Our book Genetic Theory and Analysis: Finding Meaning in a Genome is finally available to order! Feeling so lucky for the privilege of working on this with our friend and mentor Scott Hawley ❤️
Jul. 29, 2023
Computational Genomics course Nov. 29 to Dec. 6
Applications are due August 15 for the 2023 Computational Genomics course at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories. Danny will be co-teaching the course this year with David Hawkins and Lauren Mills.
Jun. 1, 2023
Building Bridges
Excited to receive the UW Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology's Building Bridges Award with co-PI Dr. Brian Shirts. This will help fund work by grad student Nikhita Damaraju, who is pursuing a PhD in Public Health Genetics.
May 29, 2023
Our lab is growing!
Very happy to welcome two talented graduate students to our team, Sophie Gibson (Genome Sciences) and J. (Gus) Gustafson (Molecular & Cellular Biology).
Mar. 1, 2023
2023 ASCI Young Physician-Scientist Award
Congratulations to Danny on being selected as one of this year's recipients of the American Society for Clinical Investigation's Young Physician-Scientist Award, which recognizes early-career physician-scientists who have made notable achievements in their research.
Feb. 13, 2023
UW Nanopore Sequencing Core
Thanks to the Brotman Baty Institute for this nice writeup about some of the work we do in the Miller Lab. We're starting to test out single-cell Nanoopore sequencing, so let us know if you are interested in trying it out.
Jan. 8, 2023
Happy New Year!
Check out these recent talks at the 2022 Nanopore Community Meeting and a UW Laboratory Medicine & Pathology Grand Rounds to hear about how the Miller Lab is using long-read sequencing in unsolved genetic disorders.
Oct. 4, 2022
NIH Early Independence Award
Danny here... Incredibly honored to be selected for an NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (DP5), and incredibly grateful to the mentors who helped me get here.
Pediatric geneticist earns NIH Early Independence Award - UW Medicine | Newsroom
Sep. 29, 2022
Miller Lab affiliated with UW MCB program
We're excited that we can now welcome students to our lab from the MCB program at UW!
Sep. 9, 2022
3-hr ultra-rapid long-read WGS of a newborn
We did a thing! Using ONT long-read sequencing, we determined a newborn's genetic risk within three hours of the infant's birth. Check out the preprint.
Jul. 15, 2022
1000G ONT in the news
Nice writeup on GenomeWeb about our project to sequence 500 of the 1000 Genomes Project samples using Nanopore. Excited to work on this with Evan Eichler and about a hundred other folks!
Jul. 8, 2022
First ONT sequencing run in the Miller Lab...
Lots of green!
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May 13, 2022
LRS of 1000 Genomes samples
We're excited to collaborate with ONT to sequence 500 of the 1000 Genomes samples. If you're interested in working on this project or joining the 1000G ONT Sequencing Consortium, please reach out.
May 12, 2022
Hello, world
Hi folks, we're opening our lab in July 2022 in the Departments of Pediatrics and Laboratory Medicine & Pathology at the University of Washington. We use long-read sequencing on the Oxford Nanopore platform to find the genetic basis for rare genetic disorders. If you have interesting unsolved cases, drop us a note. We love collaborating on tricky problems!
Apr. 29, 2022
Backstory about the T2T project
Danny's contribution to the Telomere-to-Telomere project was highlighted by the Brotman Baty Institute.
Apr. 25, 2022
Smith Workshop
We're sequencing cases that will be presented during the Unsolved session at the 2022 David W. Smith Workshop this August. If you're attending the meeting and have an unsolved genetics case, let us know!
Nov. 21, 2021
Woot!
Danny's targeted long-read sequencing paper was highlighted in AJMG, GenomeWeb, and ClinicalOMICS!