Tychele Turner

Thank you to @NIMHgov for funding my R01 on noncoding variation in neurodevelopmental disorders! @TNTurnerLab @WashUGenetics #genetics #genomics #autism So Very Happy!!!
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Rest in Peace, Grandpa
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Celebrating my 40th birthday today! 🎉

Feeling grateful for the people, experiences, and opportunities that have shaped my journey. Looking forward to a new decade of learning, discovery, and meaningful impact!

I am also excited to share my newly updated Turner Lab website: turnerlab.wustl.edu

#Gratitude #Science #NewBeginnings

Today is International 9p Minus Awareness Day 💙
Raising awareness and celebrating the incredible 9p Minus community. #9pMinus #9pMinusAwarenessDay @TNTurnerLab @WashUGenetics

🎉 The @TNTurnerLab is 7!

It is hard to believe it has been seven years since I started the @TNTurnerLab @WashUGenetics. I have been thinking about how much can happen in seven years, and how different a lab can become from what you imagined at the beginning. We started with questions about neurodevelopmental disorders and how we could use new genomic approaches to understand variation that had been difficult to study. Along the way, we developed new computational tools, expanded our work across coding and noncoding variation, began our work on chromosome 9p syndromes, and followed many questions that I could not have anticipated when the lab started. One of the most remarkable parts has been seeing where genomic discovery can lead. In one example, a gene discovery from our work ultimately helped identify a treatment for two individuals with a rare developmental and epileptic encephalopathy. To see a discovery that began with the genome make its way to something that directly improved the lives of individuals and their family is the kind of impact I hoped our science could have when I started the lab. What I appreciate most, though, is how many people have shaped this journey. Trainees have brought their own ideas, curiosity, and talents to the lab and have taken our science in directions I never could have taken alone. It has been incredibly rewarding to watch them grow, make discoveries, and move on to their next chapters. Our 9p work has been especially meaningful to me. What began as a new direction in the lab has grown through the efforts of our trainees, an incredible group of collaborators, and the individuals and families who have participated in and partnered with our research. That is probably what these seven years have taught me most about building a lab. The science grows with the people who become part of it. I am incredibly grateful to every trainee, alum, collaborator, individual, and family who has been part of the @TNTurnerLab and helped shape what it is today.

Happy 7 years, @TNTurnerLab! ❤️🧬🔬

If you would like to help support the next chapter of our research, you can support the lab here:
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