Past Students
| Name Sort ascending | Dissertation | Started | PhD earned | Current position |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yan Zhang | "Elucidating a role for CEP290 in Bardet-Biedl Syndrome and other cilia-related disorders" | Marketing Specialist, BGI Americas Corp | ||
| Hsan-jan (David) Yen | Development of the Zebrafish Model System to Gain Insight in the Pathophysiology of Bardet-Biedl Syndrome | Research Scientist, Corning Research Center | ||
| Di Xu | "An old gene takes on a new form: Expression and functions of Renin Isoforms" | Research Scientist, Shenzhen Beike Bio-Technology Co. Ltd | ||
| Xue Xiao | "C3 glomerulopathy: exploring the role of the glomerular micro-environment in disease pathogenesis" | Postdoctoral Research Scholar, University of Iowa - Department of Otolaryngology | ||
| Christina S. Winborn | Feedback regulation of CGRP gene expression | Postdoc, Dept. of Ophthalmology, Univ. of Tennessee Health Science Center | ||
| S. Scott Whitmore | Molecular Investigations of Age-Related Macular Degeneration | Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Molecular Ophthalmology Laboratory, Stephen A. Wynn Institute for Vision Research, UIOWA | ||
| Alyssa S. Wetzel (Hahn) | A Data-Driven Framework for CNV Pathogenicity Classification | |||
| Erik Westin | “The Modulation of ROS by Short Telomere Signaling ” | Postdoctoral Fellow, Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham | ||
| Jason L. Weirather | "Computational Approaches to the Study of Human Trypanosomatid Infections" | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dept. of Pulmonary, UIOWA | ||
| Katie A. Weihbrecht | Characterization Of The Biological Role Of The Ciliopathy Gene Serologically Defined Colon Cancer Antigen 8 (Sdccag8) | |||
| Ji Wan | "Global Analysis of Alternative Polyadenylation Regulation using High-throughput Sequencing" | Postdoctoral Associate, Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell Univ | ||
| Alex H. Wagner | "Computational methods for identification of disease-associated variations in exome sequencing" | Postdoctoral Research Associate, McDonnell Genome Institute, Washington Univ | ||
| Valerie Wagner | Genetic Considerations in Bisphenol F (BPF) Exposures | Research Scientist, Medical College of Wisconsin | ||
| Samuel Trammell | Novel nad+ metabolomic technologies and their applications to nicotinamide riboside interventions | |||
| Taylor R. Thomas | Understanding the Polygenic Architecture of Autism Through Dimensional Measures of Behavior and Gender | Research Fellow, Massachusetts General Hospital | ||
| Marwan K. Tayeh | Elucidating the Molecular Pathogensis of Bardet-Biedl Syndrome (BBS) Utilizing Animal Models Zebrafish and Mice | Associate Professor of Clinical Medical & Molecular Genetics, Director of the IU Diagnostic Genomics Laboratory, Indiana University, School of Medicine | ||
| Matthew Strub | Transcriptomic and pathway analyses of cystic fibrosis lung disease identify candidate therapeutic targets and small molecules | Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Department of Pediatrics, University of Iowa | ||
| Ashlyn M. Spring | "A postsynaptic signaling system for the regulation of homeostatic synaptic plasticity" | |||
| Abraham M. Sheffield | “Gene therapy for hereditary hearing loss: Lessons from a mouse model” | Resident, Dept. of Otolaryngology, UIHC | ||
| Hannah E. Seberg | Transcription Factor AP2 paralogs in melanocytes and melanoma | Postdoctoral Research Scholar, University of Iowa - Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology | ||
| Patricia Schneider | “Role of Axin-RGS domain during axis formation: maternal vs. zygotic functions” | Assistant Professor, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Pará | ||
| Igor Schneider | "Critical Roles for calcium and beta-caterin in zebrafish left-right organ asymmetry" | Assistant Professor, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Pará | ||
| Emily I. Schindler | "Molecular Genetics of Retinal Degeneration" | Medical Director of the Clinical Laboratories, Mercy Hospital-St. Louis Main Laboratory | ||
| Jacob L. Schillo | Genetic Characterization of Therapeutic Resistance in Cutaneous Melanoma | |||
| Kellie Schaefer | Insights into the mechanisms underlying calpain-related pathology | |||
| Juan Santana | "The Dm-Myb oncoprotein coordinates higher-order chromatin structure to potentiate expression of target genes as well as stabilize facultative heterochromatin" | |||
| Danielle S. Rudd | Genomic Copy Number Variation in Schizophrenia | Research Scientist, Veterans Affairs Medical Center | ||
| Nicholas K. Rorick | The Structure and Function of Interferon Regulary Factor 6 (IRF6) and the Identification of Potential Downstream Targets | Dentist, Sycamore Hills Dentistry | ||
| Bridget M. Riley-Gillis | The FGF Signaling Pathway's Contribution to Cleft Lip and Palate | Principal Research Scientist II, Human Genetics, AbbVie | ||
| JiHui Ren | Control of Protein Sorting to the Lysosome by HSE1 and its Interacting Proteins | Research Scientist, Stony Brook Cancer Center | ||
| Shyam Ramachandran | "A Novel microRNA Network Regulates CFTR Biosynthesis: Implications for Cystic Fibrosis Therapeutics" | Postdoctoral Fellow, Pathology & Center for Cellular and Molecular Therapeutics. Univ of Pennsylvania | ||
| Pavitra S. Ramachandran | “Non-allele specific silencing of ataxin-7 improves phenotypes in a mouse model of Spinocerebellar ataxia type 7” | Postdoctoral Research, Univ of Pennsylvania | ||
| Fedik Rahimov | Interferon Regulatory Factor 6 and Nonsyndromic Cleft Lip and Palate | Principal Scientist, AbbVie | ||
| Pamela R. Pretorius | "Elucidating a role for BBS3 in syndromic and non-syndromic retinal disease” | Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biology, Hanover College | ||
| Jessica Ponce | Investigating the roles of Cyclin C in heart disease | |||
| Nikale Pettie | Genomic and evolutionary studies of recombination rate variation in the sister species Drosophila yakuba and D. santomea. | |||
| Emily K. Petruccelli | A tale of two genes controlling behavior in Drosophila: role of DopEcR in alcohol-induced behavior and effects of epilepsy mutations on sleep | Assistant Professor, Southern Illinois University - Edwardsville | ||
| Ashley L. Parker | ||||
| Lily Paemka | "Prickle protein regulation." | Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Dept. of Pediatrics, UIOWA | ||
| Elizabeth O'Saurus (Melton) | ||||
| James Mrkvicka | Genetic modifiers of fly voltage-gated sodium channel mutant phenotypes | |||
| Ahmed Moustafa | Evolutionary and functional genomics of photosynthetic eukaryotes | Assistant Professor, Bioinformatics & Genomics, Department of Biology, American Univ-Cairo | ||
| Timothy J. Moss | Connections Between HP1 Hsalpha and Breast Cancer Invasion/metastasis | Clinical Genetics, Spectrum Corewell Health | ||
| Eric T. Monson | Interrogation of Rare Functional Variation within Bipolar Disorder and Suicidal Behavior Cohorts | |||
| Michael J. Molumby | Gamma-Protocadherin cis- and trans-interactions regulate the development of dendrite arbors and synapses in the cerebral cortex | |||
| Matthew J. Miller | Identification of molecular mechanisms driving skeletal muscle atrophy | |||
| Kacie J. Meyer | “Detection, interpretation, and functional consequences of genomic copy number variation in human disease” | Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Department of Physiology, Univ of Iowa | ||
| Samuel Mellentine | ||||
| Sara Mayer | Using animal models to examine mechanisms and treatments of Retinitis Pigmentosa | |||
| Janine N. Martin | "Developing RNAi Therapy for DYT1 Dystonia" | Adjunct Professor, Department of Biology, Kirkwood Community College |