Past Students

Name Dissertation Started PhD earned Current position
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
Alyssa S. Wetzel (Hahn) A Data-Driven Framework for CNV Pathogenicity Classification
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
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
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)"
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
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.”
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"
Emily A. Beck Effects of protein-protein interactions on speciation: assessment of cascading positive selection and introgression