Matthew Strub
Matthew Strub was born and raised in Dubuque, Iowa and completed a bachelors of science in biology from St. Ambrose University in Davenport before joining the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Genetics in 2013. While at the University of Iowa, he was a member of the Paul McCray, Jr. Lab, where he performed transcriptomic and pathway analyses of cystic fibrosis lung disease to identify candidate therapeutic targets and small molecules. Following his thesis defense in 2020, he completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Mayo Clinic, where he developed new analysis pipelines for large-scale proteomics data. In 2023, he joined ICF International, where he serves as a bioinformatics consultant for the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health.
Alyssa Wetzel
Alyssa Wetzel, PhD ('22) attended Cornell College in Mt. Vernon, Iowa where she earned a B.A. in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and a minor in Pyschology. She had the opportunity to do undergraduate research at North Dakota State University with Dr. Christopher Colbert's and Baylor College of Medicine with Dr. James Lupski's. Dr. Wetzel earned her PhD from the genetics program in 2022 and defended her thesis entitled 'A DataDriven Framework for CNV Pathogenicity Classification'. She stayed on as a post-doc in her thesis advisor's laboratory where she was involved in the launch of clinical exome sequencing here at the University of Iowa's Shivinand R. Patil Cytogenetics and Molecular laboratory. Dr. Wetzel will complete a fellowship in Laboratory Genetics & Genomics this month.
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