Harriet Dashnow is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Colorado Anschutz. Her lab studies tandem repeats: how they cause disease, how they vary across populations, and how they mutate and become mosaic over time. Her lab develops and applies computational methods to diagnose rare diseases and find their genetic causes. Harriet has led or co-developed several widely used tools for tandem repeat analysis. These include STRetch and STRling for short-read data, TRGT and TRGT-denovo for long-read data, and STRchive, a resource on known tandem repeat disease loci.
Harriet trained in Melbourne, Australia. She holds a BA in Psychology, a BSc in Genetics, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and an MSc in Bioinformatics, all from the University of Melbourne. She did her PhD in the Oshlack Lab at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. She then did a postdoc in the Quinlan Lab at the University of Utah. Her research is funded by an NHGRI K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award and an NHMRC Investigator Award.
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