Christopher Douville and Noushin Niknafs, fifth year BME PhD students in the lab of Dr. Rachel Karchin, associate professor of Biomedical Engineering and ICM core faculty, have both been selected to present at this year’s American Society of Human Genetic Annual Meeting (ASHG), to be held October 6-10 at the Baltimore Convention Center. Christopher’s presentation, entitled “Assessing the Pathogenicity of Insertion and Deletion Variants with the Variant Effect Scoring Tool” is scheduled for October 8^th at 5:30pm. At 6:30pm that same evening, Noushin will give her presentation, “Subclonal Hierarchy Inference from Somatic Mutations: Automatic Reconstruction of Cancer Evolutionary Trees from Multi-region Next Generation Sequencing”.

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