Full Name
Bob Handsaker
Job title
Senior Principal Software Engineer
Affiliation
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Speaker bio
Bob Handsaker's research focuses on parts of the human genome undergoing rapid mutation, including multi-allelic copy number variants, tandem repeat polymorphisms, and regions of the genome with complex evolutionary histories. Bob will speak about recent work arising from a collaboration between the labs of Steve McCarroll and Sabina Berretta that has enabled new insights into the cellular pathology underlying Huntington's disease and the key role of somatic expansion of the CAG repeat that causes the disease.
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