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Dachan is a visiting medical school student from Yonsei university college of Medicine in South Korea and interested in uncovering the molecular mechanism of neurological disease using a genomic approach. He will be in the Lee lab till the end of March 2019.

Alice received a Child Health Research Award from the Charles H. Hood Foundation for her work on transposon insertions in genetic diseases.

Thaise is a visiting PhD student from the Federal University of Sao Paulo in Brazil studying Thyroid cancer genomes. She will stay with us until the end of June 2019. Welcome Thaise!

Alice gave a talk on retrotransposons in human health and disease at Ionis pharmaceuticals in San Diego. Ionis developed an antisense drug, SPINRAZA, for Spinal Muscular Atrophy.