Past Students
Name | Dissertation | Started Sort ascending | PhD earned | Current position |
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Athena Kvamme | ||||
Elana Bernholtz | ||||
Sara Mayer | Using animal models to examine mechanisms and treatments of Retinitis Pigmentosa | |||
Elizabeth O'Saurus (Melton) | ||||
Matthew J. Miller | Identification of molecular mechanisms driving skeletal muscle atrophy | |||
Samuel Mellentine | ||||
Taylor R. Thomas | Understanding the Polygenic Architecture of Autism Through Dimensional Measures of Behavior and Gender | Research Fellow, Massachusetts General Hospital | ||
Valerie Wagner | Genetic Considerations in Bisphenol F (BPF) Exposures | Research Scientist, Medical College of Wisconsin | ||
Leo Brueggeman | Identifying genomic risk factors for neurodevelopmental disorders using machine learning | MSTP Student, University of Iowa | ||
Ashley L. Parker | ||||
Ethan Bahl | ||||
Jill Hauer | Novel Insights into the Genetic and Immunologic Drivers of C3 Glomerulopathy | |||
Jacob L. Schillo | Genetic Characterization of Therapeutic Resistance in Cutaneous Melanoma | |||
Alexander Greiner | Genetic and Molecular Basis of Sudden Cardiac Death Syndromes | Resident Physician, University of Iowa | ||
Karen C. Clark | Genetic Basis of Cardiometabolic Disease in the Lyon Hypertensive Rat | |||
Adam J. Hefel | RPA complexes and tool development for the study of DSB repair in the Caenorhabditis elegans germline | |||
Kimberly Bekas | Missing the Marx: The role of Groucho proteins in Wnt polarized asymmetric cell division | |||
Zachary W. Kockler | A unified alternative telomere lengthening pathway in yeast survivor cells | IRTA Postdoctoral Fellow, Mechanisms of Genome Dynamics Group, Genome Integrity & Structural Biology , National Institute of Environmental Health Services | ||
Tanner S. Koomar | Genetic Signatures of Neurodevelopment and Language | |||
James Mrkvicka | Genetic modifiers of fly voltage-gated sodium channel mutant phenotypes | |||
Alyssa S. Wetzel (Hahn) | A Data-Driven Framework for CNV Pathogenicity Classification | |||
Joseph Giacalone | Treating retinal disease | |||
Tyson Fuller | Insights into neurodevelopmental disorders: Molecular and behavioral studies using the zebrafish | |||
Kellie Schaefer | Insights into the mechanisms underlying calpain-related pathology | |||
Wesley Goar | Computational strategies to investigate the genetic causes of human eye disease | Senior Bioinformatics Scientist and Associate Manager of Bioinformatics, Immortagen | ||
Emily Fox | Using Drosophila oogeneis to define the role of prostaglandin signaling in collective, invasive cell migration | |||
Nikale Pettie | Genomic and evolutionary studies of recombination rate variation in the sister species Drosophila yakuba and D. santomea. | |||
Matthew Cring | Genetic therapeutic strategies for Bardet-Biedl syndrome | |||
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 | ||
Stephanie Haase | Exploring the relationship between circadian neuron activity patterns and behavioral output in Drosophila | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Biology, University of Iowa | ||
Patricia Braun | Genome-wide DNA methylation investigation of stress: From a mouse model of chronic stress to humans exposed to glucocorticoids | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University | ||
Xue Xiao | "C3 glomerulopathy: exploring the role of the glomerular micro-environment in disease pathogenesis" | Postdoctoral Research Scholar, University of Iowa - Department of Otolaryngology | ||
Michael J. Molumby | Gamma-Protocadherin cis- and trans-interactions regulate the development of dendrite arbors and synapses in the cerebral cortex | |||
Lisa A. Lansdon | The role of structural variation in cleft lip and palate | Laboratory Genetics and Genomics Fellow, Children's Mercy Hospital, Kansas City | ||
Jessica Ponce | Investigating the roles of Cyclin C in heart disease | |||
Autumn N. Marsden | The Naked Truth: The Nkd EF-Hand Domain Modulates Divergent Wnt Signaling Outputs in Zebrafish | |||
Hannah E. Seberg | Transcription Factor AP2 paralogs in melanocytes and melanoma | Postdoctoral Research Scholar, University of Iowa - Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology | ||
Patrick Lansdon | Bidirectional communication between the brain and gut microbiota in Shudderer, a Drosophila Nav channel mutant | Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Kansas | ||
Sophia C. Gaynor | Genetic and Functional Approaches to Understanding Suicidal Behavior | |||
Eric T. Monson | Interrogation of Rare Functional Variation within Bipolar Disorder and Suicidal Behavior Cohorts | |||
Allison Cox | "Whole Exome Analysis of Individuals and Families with Chronic Recurrent Multifocal Osteomyelitis (CRMO)" | |||
Salleh N. Ehaideb | "Elucidating the mechanism of prickle-associated epilepsy in flies" | |||
Melissa Marchal | Paradoxical metastasis suppressor functions of Abl family kinases in a model of androgen receptor-indifferent advanced prostate cancer | |||
Fengxiao Bu | Exploring the Genetics of a Complex Disease – Atypical Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome | |||
Changya Chen | “Dynamics of the Epigenome and 3D Genome in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Development” | |||
Danielle Herrig | "Evaluating gene flow, gene expression divergence and hybrid expression in Drosophila sister species" | Postdoctoral Researcher , Univ of Kentucky, Department of Biology, Linnen Lab (Adaptation & Speciation Genomics) | ||
S. Scott Whitmore | Molecular Investigations of Age-Related Macular Degeneration | Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Molecular Ophthalmology Laboratory, Stephen A. Wynn Institute for Vision Research, UIOWA | ||
Hung-Lin Chen | “Environmental and genetic modifiers of Shudderer, a Drosophila voltage-gated sodium channel mutant.” | |||
Emily A. Beck | Effects of protein-protein interactions on speciation: assessment of cascading positive selection and introgression | |||
Joshua R. Fletcher | "Oxidative stress resistance in the Francisella tularensis Live Vaccine Strain is associated with genetic variability in the ferrous iron uptake gene feoB" |
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