Evan E. Eichler, Ph.D. is an investigator at Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Howard Hughes Medical Institute is a United States non-profit medical research organization based in Chevy Chase, Maryland. It was founded by the American businessman Howard Hughes in 1953. It is one of the largest private funding organizations for biological and medical research in the United...

 studying human genome evolution. He is also a Professor of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington School of Medicine

University of Washington School of Medicine

The University of Washington School of Medicine is a public medical school located in Seattle, Washington.-Overview:UWSOM is a graduate school affiliated with the University of Washington, and is the only medical school in the states of Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho...

, Seattle.

Eichler is considered one of the experts in genome instability

Genome instability

Usually, all cells in an individual in a given species show a constant number of chromosomes, which constitute what is known as the karyotype defining this species , although some species present a very high karyotypic variability.Sometimes, in a species with a stable karyotype, random variations...

 studies .

Eichler is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

American Association for the Advancement of Science

The American Association for the Advancement of Science is an international non-profit organization with the stated goals of promoting cooperation among scientists, defending scientific freedom, encouraging scientific responsibility, and supporting scientific education and science outreach for the...

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Eichler received the 2008 Curt Stern Award

Curt Stern Award

The Curt Stern Award, also known as the Stern Award, honors the memory of Curt Stern as an outstanding and pioneering human geneticist...

 from the American Society of Human Genetics

American Society of Human Genetics

The American Society of Human Genetics , founded in 1948, is the primary professional membership organization for specialists in human genetics worldwide. As of 2009, the organization had approximately 8,000 members...

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He was a co-recipient of the 2010 Newcomb Cleveland Prize

Newcomb Cleveland Prize

The Newcomb Cleveland Prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Science is annually awarded to author of outstanding scientific paper published in the Research Articles or Reports sections of Science...

 by the American Association for the Advancement of Science

American Association for the Advancement of Science

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 as one of the co-authors of the May 2010 paper in Science

Science (journal)

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 on draft sequencing of the Neanderthal

Neanderthal

The Neanderthal is an extinct member of the Homo genus known from Pleistocene specimens found in Europe and parts of western and central Asia...

 genome

Genome

In modern molecular biology and genetics, the genome is the entirety of an organism's hereditary information. It is encoded either in DNA or, for many types of virus, in RNA. The genome includes both the genes and the non-coding sequences of the DNA/RNA....

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External links

• Eichler Lab at the University of Washington