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This week’s Research Roundup highlights the clinical and pathological phenotype of genetic causes of focal segmental glomerulosclerosis in adults.

Ryan Robetorye, M.D., Ph.D., has been appointed as the new Director of Laboratories for the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology on the Mayo Clinic campus in Arizona.

Heidi Zunker, Education Program Manager, and Melissa Peterson, Education Specialist, at Mayo Medical Laboratories, discuss the 10 types of attendees you may find at a conference.

Matt Binnicker, Ph.D., Director of the Clinical Virology Laboratory in the Division of Clinical Microbiology at Mayo Clinic, recently spoke with GenomeWeb/360Dx about using upfront flu immunoassays in conjunction with syndromic panel testing.

This week’s Research Roundup highlights genetic evidence for early peritoneal spreading in pelvic high-grade serous cancer.

St. Charles Health System in Bend, Oregon, has selected Mayo Medical Laboratories as its primary reference laboratory, giving the health system access to Mayo Clinic’s extensive menu of laboratory tests and clinical expertise.

Justin Kreuter, M.D., Clinical Pathologist and Medical Director of the Mayo Clinic Blood Donor Center in Rochester, Minnesota, highlights inter-professional collaboration through a recap of #Transfuse18.

Allan Jaffe, M.D., received the 2018 Gifted Teacher Award from the American College of Cardiology, which recognizes someone who has demonstrated innovative, outstanding teaching characteristics and compassionate qualities, and because of these attributes, the individual has made major contributions to the field of cardiovascular medicine at the local and/or regional level.

Mayo Clinic’s Minnesota campus has been recognized as a 2018 LGBTQ Healthcare Equality Leader, registering a top score of 100 from the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, a civil rights organization, on its 2018 Healthcare Equality Index.

The College of American Pathologists recently published its Clinical Informatics Resource Guide. In the section about radio-frequency identification (or RFID) technology and specimen tracking, R. Ross Reichard, M.D., is featured in an interview.

This week’s Research Roundup highlights patterns of homozygosity in patients with uniparental disomy with detection rate and suggested reporting thresholds for SNP microarrays.

In this month’s “Hot Topic,” Robin Patel, M.D., will review the laboratory methods used to diagnose infectious endocarditis. Specifically, she’ll discuss the role of blood cultures, nucleic acid amplification tests, histopathology, and recently, broad-range bacterial sequencing, and how these methods can assist in the diagnosis of this disease.

Justin Kreuter, M.D., Clinical Pathologist and Medical Director of the Mayo Clinic Blood Donor Center in Rochester, Minnesota, and Theresa Malin, an Education Specialist in Transfusion Medicine at Mayo Clinic, have launched “Transfusion Toons” as an innovative approach to teaching and learning transfusion medicine. View this post to see the new toon.