Myers Lab
Richard M. Myers, Ph.D. (read bio)
President, Director and Investigator
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Research areas:
- Molecular basis of human inherited diseases and traits, including Huntington disease, Parkinson disease, bipolar disease, cancer, atherosclerosis, resistance to infectious agents, and differential responses to environmental assaults
- Human population genetics
- Functional genomics, including genome-scale analysis of cis-acting sequences, DNA binding proteins and epigenetic action involved in human gene regulation
- Genomic basis of vertebrate diversity
Gene linked with human kidney aging
News Outlet:
PLoS Genetics
Date published:
October 15, 2009
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A gene has been associated with human kidney aging, according to researchers from Stanford University, the National Institute on Aging, the MedStar Research Institute, and the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology. In work published on October 16 in the open-access journal PLoS Genetics, the investigators, including HudsonAlpha Faculty Investigators Rick Myers and Devin Absher, claim that their approach can be applied to any phenotype of interest to help find other genetic associations.
Leading a large lab
News Outlet:
Genome Technology
Date published:
September 1, 2009
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It is probably a safe bet that genomics would be a slightly different place had Richard Myers pursued his original path. Myers — now president and director of the Hudson-Alpha Institute for Biotechnology in Huntsville, Ala. — began his academic career as a sociology major at the University of Alabama in the mid-1970s. But halfway through, he ended up in a chemistry class that captured his interest and caused him to drop the softer science cold. And it's a good thing, too, because Myers went on to play a major role in the Human Genome Project, among many other large-scale collaborations. From 1993 until 2008, Myers was a professor in the department of genetics at Stanford University School of Medicine, where he also directed the Stanford Human Genome Center. In fact, Myers and his genome center contributed roughly 11 percent of the human sequence — chromosomes 5, 16, and 19.
