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Elaine Mardis

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Co-director, Genome Sequencing Center

Expertise: DNA sequencing, high-speed, SNPs, genome, sequencing technology, resequencing, genetics

Bio: As Co-Director of the Genome Sequencing Center, Mardis helps select genomes of interest and evaluate the optimal sequencing strategy to apply to each genome. As Director of Technology Development at the GSC, she supervises a group that includes engineers and molecular biologists toward exploring and optimizing the most current technologies related to DNA sequencing, both from the standpoint of commercially available kits and instrumentation to the development of custom devices. This group has been responsible for providing many of the advances that have enabled Genome Sequencing Center production sequencing efforts to progress to higher and higher levels of throughput, efficiency and cost-savings over the years, and those efforts continue.

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Those remarkable molecules

University Celebrates National DNA Day (http://mednews.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/11582.html)

April 17, 2008 -- National DNA Day is April 25. The day celebrates a most remarkable molecule, one that holds the instructions for life: DNA. DNA Day was created in 2003 to commemorate the completion of the Human Genome Project and the 50th anniversary of James Watson's and Francis Crick's discovery of DNA's double helical structure. Washington University played a key role in the Human Genome Project, an international effort to assemble in order the 3 billion letters that make up the genetic code.


In search of genetic variation

Washington University part of major effort to sequence 1,000 human genomes (http://mednews.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/10869.html)

Jan. 22, 2008 --
The School of Medicine will play a leading role in an international collaboration to sequence the genomes of 1,000 individuals. The ambitious 1000 Genomes Project will create the most detailed picture to date of human genetic variation and likely will identify many genetic factors underlying common diseases.


A new look at lung cancer

Genome researchers uncover novel genetic alterations in lung cancer (http://mednews.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/10476.html)

Nov. 4, 2007 -- Scientists at the School of Medicine, working as part of an international team of researchers, have completed a massive effort to map the genetic changes underlying the most commonly diagnosed form of lung cancer. Their results are published in the Nov. 4 advance online issue of the journal Nature.


Targeting cancer genes

Gene sequencing center to receive $156 million (http://mednews.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/8267.html)

Nov. 20, 2006 -- The Genome Sequencing Center has been awarded a $156 million, four-year grant to use the powerful tools of DNA sequencing to unlock the secrets of cancer and other human diseases. The grant is among the largest awarded to Washington University and one of only three given by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) to U.S. sequencing centers.



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1,000 Genomes Project
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Jan. 28, 2008 -- The 1,000 Genomes Project, an international research effort that includes WUSTL scientists, will sequence the genomes of one thousand people from different parts of the globe. Elaine Mardis, co-director of WUSTL's Genome Sequencing Center, comments.



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