Qichen Fu

Ph.D. candidate @WashUdbbs @WashUGenetics. Undergraduate @EdinburghUni @ZJU_China.

[Turan Tufan @trn_tfn]

I am incredibly honored to be selected as a 2026 Helen Hay Whitney Fellow. This fellowship will support the next stage of my research and growth as an independent investigator. I am also grateful for Ting Wang’s mentorship and support. @twang5 https://t.co/ieIoIlJtZR

[WashU Medicine Genetics @WashUGenetics]

Turan Tufan, PhD @trn_tfn, postdoctoral researcher in Dr. Ting Wang's @twang5 lab has been awarded prestigious Helen Hay Whitney Fellowship. Congrats! https://t.co/toKSUa5IGZ

[WashU Medicine Genetics @WashUGenetics]

Join @WashUGenetics next Thursday Feb. 12 at Noon in Connor Auditorium when Wanlu Liu, PhD @WanluLiu presents, “Exploring Human T cells and TCRαβ repertoire at the single-cell level: Phenotypic Heterogeneity and Disease Associations”, hosted by Ting Wang, PhD @twang5!

[IGVF @IGVFConsortium]

NEW from IGVF: our NAR paper highlighting the IGVF Catalog, an open resource for exploring how genomic variation impacts function.

Use the resource, explore the data, and tell us what you think!

https://t.co/S17F95nhP9

[bioRxiv Genomics @biorxiv_genomic]

Leveraging Human Pangenome for Improved Somatic Variant Detection https://t.co/rjK8hWbGv2 #biorxiv_genomic

[bioRxiv Genomics @biorxiv_genomic]

Comprehensive benchmarking of somatic mutation detection by the SMaHT Network https://t.co/O1yNgLq6sg #biorxiv_genomic

[Sheng Chih Jin @PETERJIN999]

1/🚨 Excited to share our new collaborative study from the @SMaHTnetwork benchmarking package! This work represents a major collaborative effort with outstanding colleagues at @WashUGenetics, @VAInstitute, and throughout the @SMaHTnetwork.

https://t.co/l06AAKTbUo

[Heng Li @lh3lh3]

If you want to check if a human gene has copy-number changes or lands in a complex region, try https://t.co/zKVAm8dhOL. Recently updated with more and better assemblies.

[Fusion Conferences @Fusion_Conf]

Are you currently in the ERE related field and want to find new collaborative opportunities? Join our Chairs @ChiappinelliLab, @shenhui1986, @twang5 & @paultaowu at the upcoming Endogenous Retrotransposable Elements & Human Diseases Conference this November! #EREHD25
🎙️Talk Submission extended to 03 Sept 2025
💰Final few $500 grants remaining for ECRs!
Don't Miss out 👉https://t.co/PnwptupJdw

[Human Pangenome Reference Consortium @HumanPangenome]

The WashU Epigenome Browser update brings faster performance, a new UI, and new tools for long-read & single-cell methylation data, plus genome assembly comparisons like hg38 vs chm13.

Uncover the hard work behind it: https://t.co/2XbAeZoITE

[Heng Li @lh3lh3]

Preprint on "Finding easy regions for short-read variant calling from pangenome data": https://t.co/UCR1stejLG

[SMaHT Network @SMaHTnetwork]

🧬 The SMaHT marker paper is now live in @Nature

This landmark study characterizes somatic variation across 19 tissue types from 150 nondiseased donors, laying the groundwork for future discoveries in health, aging, and disease.

Read the full paper: https://t.co/uXArDHEtHn

[WashU Medicine Genetics @WashUGenetics]

Congratulations to our postdoctoral researcher Wesley Saintilnord on being selected as a #JCCFellow! The JCC Fund supports groundbreaking science by the most promising postdoctoral fellows working in cancer and human disease research.
https://t.co/0ZkK3epHfD

[WashU Epigenome Browser @wuepgg]

Happy to share our 2025 update manuscript now open access at Nucleic Acids Research @NAR_Open. Any feedback is welcomed about the performance improvement, added features, and data. Thank you!
https://t.co/jNre04egEz

[Andrew Carroll @acarroll_ATG]

Release of DeepVariant and DeepSomatic v1.9

DV: Added training on HG002 T2T-Q100. Error reduction of 12% for Illumina and 30% for PacBio on this truth set. 25% faster. DeepTrio is 5x faster (20h -> 4h).

DS: New models FFPE_TUMOR_ONLY for {WGS, WES}. Much improved WGS models.

[WashU Medicine Genetics @WashUGenetics]

That’s a wrap! We hope you enjoyed our 50th Anniversary Celebration and Symposium as much as we did! Thank you to all the speakers, students, faculty and staff who attended the event. Here’s to more amazing years at the Department of Genetics at WashU Medicine!

[WashU Medicine Genetics @WashUGenetics]

The Department of Genetics is pleased to present our 50th Anniversary Symposium on April 24, 2025 with keynote speakers Dr. Bob Waterston and Dr. Eric Green @NHGRI_Director. Registration is open now! Find the full list of speakers on the event page:
https://t.co/7yvywPGmNf

[Human Pangenome Reference Consortium @HumanPangenome]

The first human genome sequence was created in 2003. The sequence was sourced from a few individuals yet didn't represent all of humanity.

HPRC is building a more inclusive reference and capturing the full spectrum of human genetics.

Here's our story: https://t.co/A0qaA6uWKr

[ESC & iPSC News @ESC_iPSC_News]

New this week in @NatureComms! 🚨

Drs. @KaraQuaid and Ting Wang (@twang5) created a comprehensive resource of high-quality genomic, epigenomic, and #transcriptomic data from #iPSC lines and three iPSC-derived cell types.

🕶️ Check it out: https://t.co/afr2fzfiye

[Xiaoyu Zhuo @XiaoyuZhuo]

I am very excited to share my latest work characterizing cytosine methylation of polymorphic insertions in the human population! A thread: 1/