All News and Events

25 March 2026

Event jointly organized by: AVE and St Vincent's Institute of Medical Research

6 January 2026

Please join us for a special Fireside chat on January 6th, 2026

21 May 2025

Event jointly organized by : Institute for Bioengineering of Catalunya (IBEC) and Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG)

26 February 2026

Thompson is one of the featured presenters at the Ninth Annual Mutational Scanning Symposium, March 25 through 27 in Melbourne, Australia

29 January 2026

It's been an incredible year for our community. We've grown to over 800 members from 58 countries, generated more than 7 million variant effect measurements across 700+ genes in human and model organisms, and made real progress toward a Clinical Atlas of Variant Effects.

20 January 2026

Professor Yang Jianrong, a researcher and professor at with Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China, is a confirmed speaker at the upcoming Ninth Annual Mutational Scanning Symposium, March 25-27, in Melbourne, Australia.

28 January 2026

How can different molecular measurements enhance our understanding of membrane proteins and the genetic diseases caused by their dysfunction? In this episode, we explain how membrane proteins relay environmental information to cells, focusing on channels that gate ions and molecules.

17 December 2025

How can we use genomic technologies to tackle blood diseases? In this episode, we explain the role of genetic variants in blood disorders and how genomics approaches, such as gene editing can help cure these diseases.

30 June 2025

Who do you ask if you have a question about a gene? In this episode, we dive into the teams and scientists that are building an encyclopedia of knowledge about your genes.

3 March 2026

Nisha Kamath obtained her Ph.D. in Pathology/Immunology from Case Western Reserve University under the mentorship of Dr. Kenneth Matreyek. Her thesis project involved using deep mutational scanning and targeted phenotypic assays to understand how variants within the calcium-binding STIM1 cEF-hand domain affect its structure and function. She is currently pursuing a short-term postdoc within the same lab, applying phenotypic assays she developed during her doctoral training to understand the effect of protein variants on genes related to epilepsy.

7 April 2026

Yuta Yamamoto is an Instructor of the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford. He completed a postdoc training at the Ashely lab at Stanford. His research focuses on decoding genetic variants associated with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy using scalable functional genomics.

7 April 2026

Olivia Zhang recently obtained her Ph.D. in Chemistry and Chemical Biology from Harvard University in Dr. Brian Liau’s Lab. Her research focused on understanding chemical and genetic mechanisms to regulate the LSD1-HDAC1/2-CoREST (LHC) repressor complex. In particular, she investigated the mechanism of cancer hotspot mutations in the E3 ligase KBTBD4 in promoting the degradation of CoREST. Using deep mutational scanning and a diverse array of biochemical and cell based assays, her work along with extensive collaborations reveal the mutational landscape...moreof the KBTBD4 hotspot that can promote neomorphic protein-protein interactions that drive subsequent protein degradation. Her work aims to address how we can use genetic methods to uncover protein-protein interactions that can inform therapeutic applications