Hutch News
New type of viral anti-CRISPR found in human microbiome
Protein used by viruses to combat DNA-snipping action of bacterias’ CRISPR immune system
Legionnaires' bacterium has a secret weapon — and a potential weakness
Scientists discover how Legionella overcomes neighboring bacteria, revealing possible way to control it
Harmit Malik elected to National Academy of Sciences
Evolutionary biologist honored for fundamental discoveries of genetic conflict
2 Hutch postdocs named Damon Runyon-Dale F. Frey Breakthrough Scientists
Drs. Alistair Russell and Tera Levin among few Damon Runyon Fellows selected for further support
Dr. Harmit Malik elected fellow of American Academy of Microbiology
His pioneering approaches to studying genetic conflict are transforming traditional evolutionary genetics
Jeannette Tenthorey named Hanna Gray Fellow
Postdoc wins prestigious 8-year award supporting diversity in science
Dr. Tera Levin receives Pathway to Independence Award
Malik Lab postdoc studies evolutionary arms race between the bacteria that causes Legionnaire’s disease and its host amoeba
Understanding HIV’s evolutionary past — and future
Studies of how the virus evolved and how it might change down the road could help researchers develop vaccines or cures for the infection
Science without borders
At Fred Hutch and other U.S. research centers, a global village works to cure cancer and other diseases
A killer is revealed: kambucha yeast poison their competitors
From the Malik, Smith, and Zanders Laboratories (Basic Sciences Division, Fred Hutch and the Stowers Institute)
A ‘selfish gene’ that poisons its own host
Discovery of genes that divide two species in a simple fungus sheds light on complex evolutionary principles
Domesticated transposons help feng shui DNA
From Malik (Basic Sciences Division, Fred Hutch) and the Yao (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) Laboratories
Good News: Malik and Bloom win ASM awards; pilot project funded by Bezos family aims to create personalized anticancer vaccines
Celebrating faculty and staff achievements
Good News: Henikoff Lab celebrates 35 years; Hutch writer earns journalism award; Pat Heath wins coveted Wyckoff award; Hutch vanity plate signatures at 2,300
Celebrating faculty and staff achievements
Good News: Hsieh PCF Award; Biernacki hematology training program; Soh Damon Runyon Award
Celebrating faculty and staff achievements
'Mother's Curse' mutation — harmful to males but not females — ID'd for the first time in animals
Study in fruit flies identifies a mutation in mitochondria — the energy factories of our cells — that harms males but not females
Dr. Marian Neuhouser takes office as president of the American Society for Nutrition
Celebrating faculty and staff achievements
The sixth samurai: Finding a gene that divides one species from another
How six male flies — among more than 300,000 females — led to the discovery of an evolution-driving gene
Good News at Fred Hutch
Researchers led by Dr. Ulrike Peters identify six new gene locations for colorectal cancer risk; Drs. Tera Levin and Alistair Russell named Damon Runyon Fellows
Q&A: How evolutionary biologists got lucky with a sperm discovery
Drs. Harmit Malik and Mia Levine on a male fruit fly protein necessary for embryo survival
Good News at Fred Hutch
VIDD researchers receive $1.7M grant to study post-transplant infections; Dr. Joshua Roth receives scientific achievement award; Dr. Patrick Mitchell receives microbiology award; Dr. Jesse Bloom named Pew scholar
Insect genomes’ analysis challenges universality of essential cell division proteins
Study upends dogma about CenH3 essentiality