Tuuli Lappalainen
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Each year the Department of Systems Biology community comes together for an off-campus retreat to discuss science, share ongoing research and to network. During this year's two-day program, held in Ellenville, NY, research presentations were primarily delivered by young investigators, shining a light on the ongoing work by our graduate students and post-docs.
In a new study published in Science, researchers from New York Genome Center and Columbia University demonstrate a new method for analyzing genomes to better identify all mutations that disrupt gene function. The study was led by Pejman Mohammadi, PhD, a former postdoctoral scientist at the New York Genome Center and Columbia, and supervised by Tuuli Lappalainen, PhD, core faculty member at the New York Genome Center and an assistant professor of systems biology.
Congratulations to Tuuli Lappalainen, PhD, assistant professor of systems biology at Columbia University and core faculty member at the New York Genome Center, who has received the Harold and Golden Lamport Research award, an annual prize given to junior faculty members for outstanding basic science or clinical science research. Dr. Lappalainen was presented with the faculty award at the May 22 Commencement Ceremony for Columbia's Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons.
A new study, led by Dr. Tuuli Lappalainen, has unveiled a molecular mechanism behind one of biology’s longstanding mysteries: why individuals carrying identical gene mutations for a disease end up having varying severity or symptoms of the disease. In this phenomenon, called variable penetrance, the severity of the effect of disease-causing variants differs among individuals who carry them.
Dr. Lappalainen, assistant professor of systems biology and faculty at the New York Genome Center, is the recipient of the 2018 Leena Peltonen Prize for Excellence in Human Genetics. Dr. Lappalainen marks the first Finnish genomic researcher to receive the award, honoring one of Finland's most renowned scientists.