Bonita and David Brewer Fellowship
Genome Sciences is excited to announce the Bonita and David Brewer Fellowship, which will be open to all graduate students in Genome Sciences labs who use a model organism in their research.
This research can include genetic, genomic, proteomic or computational approaches.
Fellowships will be for one year. There is no citizenship requirement for fellowship applicants. Students from outside programs conducting research in GS labs are welcome to apply, however, please note that first year students are not eligible.
An announcement will be sent out to grads & faculty when funding is available.
current application deadline: May 6, 2024
Applications should include:
1) applicant CV
2) One page research proposal, including a rationale for the relevance of the model organism to the research goal
3) Letter of recommendation from the faculty advisor. Faculty advisor should send letter of recommendation to Brian Giebel
Current and past Brewer Fellowship award winners:
2024
Gabby Ferra uses yeast as a system for testing the functional consequences of thousands of missense mutations in the important human pharmacogene CYP2D6.
2022
Sydney Sattler has been selected to hold the one year award to support her proposal to define the role of an unusual class of macrophages in killifish embryogenesis. This work will help advance killifish as a model organism by developing general genetic procedures as part of the project.
2021
Luana Paleologu’s research uses yeast as a model organism to study the influence of aging on the subcellular distribution of proteins. The proposed work will provide Luana with new training in yeast genetics, proteomics and computational biology, and will address an underexplored question in the field of aging research.
Soyeon Showman’s research uses yeast as a model organism to study how sequence variation influences the activity of human cytochrome CYP2D6, a protein implicated in the metabolism of a large fraction of human pharmaceuticals. The proposed work provides Soyeon with new training in yeast genetics and computational biology, and will aid efforts aimed at pharmaceutical dosing and effectiveness.
2020
Chengxiang Qiu has been selected to hold a one year award from the Bonita and David Brewer Fellowship to support his work using single-cell RNA-seq and ATAC-seq data to delineate the cell lineages and transcription factors that define mouse development.