Maitreya Dunham

Dr. Dunham is a Fellow of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Associate Professor of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington. She specializes in developing and using high-throughput genomic technologies to study the consequences of genetic variation, from single nucleotide changes to whole extra chromosomes. She works primarily in yeast, but has expanded her research scope to also include human genetic variation and metagenomes. She has also consulted for biotech companies seeking to implement the new tools and methods developed in her lab. Maitreya got her BS in biology from MIT, her PhD in genetics with David Botstein at Stanford University, and started her lab as one of the first Lewis-Sigler Fellows at Princeton University before moving to UW Genome Sciences.