Con­tact Name: Heather Mefford

Con­tact Email: hmefford[at]uw.edu

Depart­ment: Pediatrics, Genetic Medicine

Descrip­tion:

Our lab uses genomic technologies to discover genetic causes of pediatric epilepsy syndromes and other disorders. Opportunities for projects include candidate gene sequencing to identify mutations, chromosome microarrays for copy number variant discovery, setting up functional assays to study the function of new epilepsy genes and bioinformatics analysis of sequence data to explore different models of inheritance.

http://www.washington.edu/medicine/pediatrics/meflab/

Require­ments:

Background in biological sciences
Able to commit 10-15 hrs per week minimum
Previous lab experience helpful but not required

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