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Colin Shew, grad student

Current

  • Postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Benito-Gutiérrez’s group at Genentech (2023-current)

Education

  • Ph.D. student, Integrative Genetics and Genomics graduate group, UC Davis (2016-2022)

  • B.S. Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology / minor in Conservation Biology, UCLA (2015)

Professional Experience

  • Technician - Robert Wayne lab, UCLA (2015-2016)

  • Technician - Steven Jacobsen lab, UCLA (2015)

Interests

  • Evolution

  • Comparative genomics

  • Genome organization/regulation

  • Science outreach

Hobbies

  • Backpacking

  • Swimming

  • Trumpet

Recent Publications

  • Genomic structural variation: A complex but important driver of human evolution. Soto DC*, Uribe-Salazar J*, Shew CJ*, Sekar A, McGinty SP, Dennis MY^. Am J Biol Anthropol. 2023. Review. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.24713

  • Complete genomic and epigenetic maps of human centromeres. Altemose N, Logsdon GA*, Bzikadze AV*, Sidhwani P*, Langley SA*, Caldas GV*, Hoyt SJ, Uralsky L, Ryabov FD, Shew CJ, Sauria MEG, Borchers M, Gershman A, Mikheenko A, Shepelev VA, Dvorkina T, Kunyavskaya O, Vollger MR, Rhie A, McCartney AM, Asri M, Lorig-Roach R, Shafin K, Lucas JK, Aganezov S, Olson D, de Lima LG, Potapova T, Hartley GA, Haukness M, Kerpedjiev P, Gusev F, Tigyi K, Brooks S, Young A, Nurk S, Koren S, Salama SR, Paten B, Rogaev EI, Streets A, Karpen GH, Dernburg AF, Sullivan BA, Straight AF, Wheeler TJ, Gerton JL, Eichler EE, Phillippy AM, Timp W, Dennis MY, O'Neill RJ, Zook JM, Schatz MC, Pevzner PA, Diekhans M, Langley CH, Alexandrov IA^, Miga KH^. Science. 2022.

  • The complete sequence of a human genome. Nurk S*, Koren S*, Rhie A*, Rautiainen M*, Bzikadze AV, Mikheenko A, Vollger MR, Altemose N, Uralsky L, Gershman A, Aganezov S, Hoyt SJ, Diekhans M, Logsdon GA, Alonge M, Antonarakis SE, Borchers M, Bouffard GG, Brooks SY, Caldas GV, Chen NC, Cheng H, Chin CS, Chow W, de Lima LG, Dishuck PC, Durbin R, Dvorkina T, Fiddes IT, Formenti G, Fulton RS, Fungtammasan A, Garrison E, Grady PGS, Graves-Lindsay TA, Hall IM, Hansen NF, Hartley GA, Haukness M, Howe K, Hunkapiller MW, Jain C, Jain M, Jarvis ED, Kerpedjiev P, Kirsche M, Kolmogorov M, Korlach J, Kremitzki M, Li H, Maduro VV, Marschall T, McCartney AM, McDaniel J, Miller DE, Mullikin JC, Myers EW, Olson ND, Paten B, Peluso P, Pevzner PA, Porubsky D, Potapova T, Rogaev EI, Rosenfeld JA, Salzberg SL, Schneider VA, Sedlazeck FJ, Shafin K, Shew CJ, Shumate A, Sims Y, Smit AFA, Soto DC, Sović I, Storer JM, Streets A, Sullivan BA, Thibaud-Nissen F, Torrance J, Wagner J, Walenz BP, Wenger A, Wood JMD, Xiao C, Yan SM, Young AC, Zarate S, Surti U, McCoy RC, Dennis MY, Alexandrov IA, Gerton JL, O'Neill RJ, Timp W, Zook JM, Schatz MC, Eichler EE^, Miga KH^, Phillippy AM^. Science. 2022.

  • Diverse molecular mechanisms contribute to differential expression of human duplicated genes. Shew CJ, Carmona-Mora P, Soto DC, Mastoras M, Roberts E, Rosas J, Jagannathan D, Kaya G, O’Geen H, Dennis MY. MBE. 2021.

  • Single-cell strand sequencing of a macaque genome reveals multiple nested inversions and breakpoint reuse during primate evolution. Maggiolini FAM, Sanders AD, Shew CJ, Sulovari A, Mao Y, Puig M, Catacchio CR, Dellino M, Palmisano D, Mercuri L, Bitonto M, Porubský D, Cáceres M, Eichler EE, Ventura M, Dennis MY, Korbel JO, Antonacci F. Genome Res. 2020 Oct 22.

  • Identification of Structural Variation in Chimpanzees Using Optical Mapping and Nanopore Sequencing. Soto DC*, Shew C*, Mastoras M, Schmidt JM, Sahasrabudhe R, Kaya G, Andrés AM, Dennis MY. Genes (Basel). 2020 Mar 4;11(3).

Contact: cshew [at] ucdavis.edu