April 2025
Dr. Jason Heaney and Dr. Lindsay Burrage hosted a Baylor CPMM booth at the NORD and Baylor College of Medicine Family Day at The Health Museum. The family friendly event provided attendees an opportunity to meet other patients and caregivers, get connected to community-based organizations.
February 2025
January 2025
Congratulations to Nathalie Aceves Ewing, a graduate student in Burrage Lab, for being awarded an NIH F31 training fellowship to study a novel form of Congenital NAD Deficiency in the Baylor CPMM!
Nathalie Aceves Ewing gave a wonderful talk on her work demonstrating the utility of prime editing N1 mouse screens for modeling a severe variant in AXIN2 associated with congenital anomalies.
October 2024
Dr. Jason Heaney and Dr. Lindsay Burrage enjoyed hosting a Baylor CPMM table at the "Undiagnosed. Ultra-rare. United." in-person community event at The Health Museum in Houston. The event was hosted by the Department of Molecular and Human Genetics and Undiagnosed Disease Network Foundation.
May 2024
Dr. Jason Heaney presented a great talk on the Baylor CPMM at the 2024 Society for Inherited Metabolic Disorders as part of a session highlighting the work of the precision modeling centers at Baylor, JAX and UAB.
Congratulations to Dr. Jung-Wan Mok, a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Shinya Yamamoto’s lab, who won the Outstanding Poster Presentation Award at the 5th Association for Korean Neuroscientists (AKN) Research Symposium for his poster on a CPMM project (BMPR2).
April 2024
Congratulations to Dr. Denise Lanza and the Baylor CPMM mouse team for their new publication in Genesis!
A study by Dr. Xueyang Pan, a postdoctoral fellow in the Hugo Bellen laboratory, and the Baylor CPMM fly team that links FRYL gene variants to a new neurological disorder that exhibits developmental delay, intellectual disability, and dysmorphic features was published in the April issue of the American Journal of Human Genetics.
March 2024
Dr. Shinya Yamamoto gave a great talk about modeling rare disorders at the 2024 The Allied Genetics Conference.
Nathalie Aceves Ewing presented her work on a new congenital NAD deficiency disorder at the 2024 TAGC meeting in Washington, D.C. Congratulations on your presentation and your scholarship award, Nathalie!
Dr. Lindsay Burrage and Jill Mokry presented a poster about the Baylor CPMM at the 2024 American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics annual meeting in Toronto, Canada.
February 2024
Congratulations to Dan Brooks, a Baylor medical genetics resident, who with the Baylor UDN team, the Baylor CPMM Clinical Translational Core, and other collaborators, had their manuscript describing de novo heterozygous variants in MAP3K20 accepted for publication in Human Genetics.
Members of the Baylor CPMM were excited to receive t-shirts from the Raiden Foundation.
January 2024
Nathalie Aceves Ewing and Dr. Denise Lanza presented excellent posters at the Baylor College of Medicine Department of Molecular and Human Genetics Retreat this year!
Dr Hugo Bellen was awarded the prestigious 2024 Gruber Genetics Prize!
December 2023
Congratulations to the Baylor CPMM Clinical Translational Core for contributing to a new paper in Brain describing variants in GRIA3 and neurodevelopmental phenotypes!
November 2023
Baylor CPMM had 5 posters describing fly and mouse models at the 2023 American Society of Human Genetics annual meeting, including one that received a Reviewer’s Choice Award!
Congratulations to Dr. Jennifer Posey (Clinical Translational Core) for winning the 2023 American Society of Human Genetics Early Career Award!
Dr. Lindsay Burrage and Dr. Shinya Yamamoto presented an overview of the Baylor CPMM’s variant nomination review and modeling strategies at the semi-annual meeting of the International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium (IMPC).
Dr. Shinya Yamamoto gave a talk on using Drosophila for modeling rare genetic diseases at the 18th Transgenic Technology Meeting in Houston Texas. Dr. Jason Heaney chaired the session.
October 2023
April 2023
Dr. Jason Heaney gave a talk at the 12th Annual Individualizing Medicine Conference in Jacksonville Florida, highlighting the use of mouse in the modeling of human disease.
Nathalie Aceves Ewing and Matthew Gonzalez, a research assistant in Heaney lab, presented their Baylor CPMM posters at the 2023 Transgenic Technologies conference in Houston. Dr. Denise Lanza also gave a talk on using prime editing to generate mouse models in the Baylor CPMM at the same meeting.
October 2022
May 2022
April 2022
Dr. Lindsay Burrage presented a poster describing mouse modeling in the Baylor CPMM and Dr. Michael Wangler presented a poster on DDX39B (fly modeling) at the 2022 American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics annual meeting in Nashville, Tennessee.