The Elizabeth W. Jones Award for Excellence in Education recognizes an individual or group that has had significant, sustained impact on genetics education at any level, from K-12 through graduate school and beyond. Bruce Weir (University of Washington) is the 2019 recipient in recognition of his work training thousands of researchers in the rigorous use of statistical analysis methods for genetic and genomic data. His contributions fall into three categories: the acclaimed Summer Institute in Statistical Genetics, which has been held continuously for 23 years and has trained > 10,000 researchers worldwide; the popular graduate-level textbook Genetic Data Analysis; and the training of a growing number of forensic geneticists during the rise of DNA evidence in courts around the world.
Keyphrases
- data analysis
- healthcare
- copy number
- medical education
- genome wide
- heat stress
- quality improvement
- virtual reality
- physical activity
- mental health
- circulating tumor
- electronic health record
- dna methylation
- resistance training
- single molecule
- machine learning
- deep learning
- artificial intelligence
- circulating tumor cells
- nucleic acid