JAMES GAGNON portrait
  • Assistant Professor, School Of Biological Sciences
  • Member, Henry Eyring Center for Cell & Genome Science
  • Member, Center for Genomic Medicine
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Internal Service

  • MCEB Capstone Exam Committee. Member, 01/2020 - present. Department service.
  • SBS Diversity Fellows Program. Speaker, 01/2020 - 12/2020. Department service.
  • SBS Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Workgroup. Organizer, 01/2020 - 12/2020. Department service.
  • SBS Website Committee. Member, 07/2019 - present. Department service.
  • Junior facility CoS Dean Search interviews . Organizer, 07/2019 - present. College service.
  • SoBS Director Search Internal Committee. Member, 07/2019 - present. College service.
  • Genetics Training Grant Steering Committee. Member, 07/2019 - present. University service.
  • SBS Animal Care/Facilities Committee. Member, 07/2019 - present. Department service.
  • MB Graduate Program Advisor. Advisor, 07/2019 - present. Department service.
  • MCEB Grant writing bootcamp. Reviewer, 01/2019 - 12/2020. Department service.
  • Biology Department Molecular Biology Faculty Search: Offer to Morgan DeSantis. Search Member, 07/2018 - 06/2019. Department service.
  • UROP applications. Reviewer, 01/2018 - present. University service.
  • MD/PhD Graduate Program applicants. Interviewer , 01/2018 - present. Department service.
  • MB Graduate Program applicants. Interviewer , 01/2018 - present. Department service.
  • MCEB Graduate Program applicants. Interviewer , 01/2018 - present. Department service.
  • Cell Center seminar series. Organizer, 01/2018 - present. College service.
  • Biology Department MCEB Recruiting and Admissions. Committee member, 01/2018 - 12/2019. Department service.

Community Partnership

  • Organizer Workshop “Single cell approaches in animal development With John Murray for the TAGC conference, Wash. DC, April 2020 Moved to June 2020 (online) due to COVID-19 . 06/2020 - 06/2020
  • Judge-Poster session, Society for Developmental Biology conference. 01/2020 - 01/2020
  • Program Committee, RECOMB-SEQ 2019 conference. 01/2019 - 01/2019

Outreach

  • Poster session, Zebrafish Disease Models conference-judge. 01/2019 - 01/2019

Honors & Awards

  • Nominated for Pew Scholars Program by University of Utah. 01/2020
  • Mario R. Capecchi Endowed Chair in Biology. 01/2019
  • Nominated for Pew Scholars Program by University of Utah. 01/2019
  • Nominated for Searle Scholars Program by University of Utah. 01/2018
  • Science Magazine Breakthrough of the Year. 01/2018