Past Students
| Name Sort descending | Dissertation | Started | PhD earned | Current position |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maria Asuncion (Zen) A. Abeleda | “The Role of the Alternative Pathway of the Complement System in the Development of Dense Deposit Disease” | Intellectual Property Law Clerk (Patent), Barnes and Thornburg, LLP (Indianapolis Office) | ||
| Dina Ahram | "The characterization of clinical, genetic and molecular aspects of primary angle closure glaucoma in a canine genetic model" | Senior Clinical Director, Molecular Genetics and Cytogenetics, Quest Diagnostics | ||
| Farah Alul | “Investigating the Genetics of Thyroid Stimulating Hormone in Newborns” | |||
| Ethan Bahl | ||||
| Marisa Banasik | “Integrase Competent or Deficient Lentiviral Expression of MicroRNAs and Short Hairpin RNAs for Messenger RNA Inhibition” | Postdoctoral Associate, Dept. Bio-medical Sciences, Iowa State Univ | ||
| Jennifer A. Barlett | The Role of PLUNC and LPLUNC1 in Airway Host Defense | Assistant Research Scientist, Dept. of Pediatrics, UIOWA | ||
| Emily A. Beck | Effects of protein-protein interactions on speciation: assessment of cascading positive selection and introgression | |||
| Danielle J. Beekman | “The Evolution and Expression of Drosophila Meiosis Genes” | Research Associate, Department of Biology, UIOWA | ||
| Kimberly Bekas | Missing the Marx: The role of Groucho proteins in Wnt polarized asymmetric cell division | |||
| Elana Bernholtz | ||||
| Andreas Beyer | Protective Effects of Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor Gamma in the Vascular Wall: Insights From Mice Expressing Dominant Negative Mutants | Assistant Professor of Medicine and Physiology, Medical College of Wisconsin | ||
| Leah C. Biggs | “Interferon regulatory factor 6: a novel regulator of keratinocyte differentiation and migration” | Postdoctoral Research, Dept. Developmental Biology, Univ of Helsinki Finland | ||
| Glenn M. Borchert | MICRORNAS: Functional and Regulatory Insights Based on Orgin | Associate Professor, Dept. of Biology, Univ of South Alabama | ||
| 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 | ||
| Benjamin T. Brett | "A computational approach for comparative oncogenomics using mouse models" | Senior Bioinformation, PreventionGenetics | ||
| Heather M. Brockway | “A role for the csn/cop9 signalosomein synaptonemalcomplex assembly and meiotic progression” | Post-Doctoral Fellow, Dept of Neonatology, Center for Preterm Birth, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center | ||
| Leo Brueggeman | Identifying genomic risk factors for neurodevelopmental disorders using machine learning | MSTP Student, University of Iowa | ||
| Fengxiao Bu | Exploring the Genetics of a Complex Disease – Atypical Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome | |||
| Erin R. Burnight | "Targeting Therapeutic Vector Expression and Integration for Gene Therapy Applications" | Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Depart. of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, UIOWA | ||
| Jinlu Cai | Coex-Rank: an approach for microarray combined analysis – Applications to PPARγ related datasets | Associate, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Department of Genetics | ||
| Colleen A. Campbell | “Identification of a Genetic Contribution to Ménière’s Disease” | Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa, Clinical Associate Professor | ||
| Xitiz Chamling | Identification and characterization of cep131 as a bbsome interacting protein | Postdoctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine | ||
| Changya Chen | “Dynamics of the Epigenome and 3D Genome in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Development” | |||
| Hung-Lin Chen | “Environmental and genetic modifiers of Shudderer, a Drosophila voltage-gated sodium channel mutant.” | |||
| Annie Pei-Fen Chiang | Comparative and integrative genomic approach toward disease gene identification: application to Bardet-Biedl Syndrome | Bioinformatics and Medical Informatics Consultant | ||
| Karen C. Clark | Genetic Basis of Cardiometabolic Disease in the Lyon Hypertensive Rat | |||
| Allison Cox | "Whole Exome Analysis of Individuals and Families with Chronic Recurrent Multifocal Osteomyelitis (CRMO)" | |||
| Matthew Cring | Genetic therapeutic strategies for Bardet-Biedl syndrome | |||
| Johnny Cruz Corchado | Causes and consequences of crossing over variation in Drosophila melanogaster | |||
| Lea K. Davis | Copy Number Detection and Association Studies of Autism and Autism Related Endophenotypes | Research Associate (Assistant Professor), Dept. of Medicine, Univ of Chicago | ||
| Matthew Dickson | Functional Effects of Angiotensinogen Ploymorphisms | Cardiology Fellow and Postdoc, Univ of Texas Southwestern | ||
| Douglas Dylla | “Arenavirusesand LentiviralGene Transfer: Host and Vector Properties Influencing Efficacy” | Principle Medical Writer, Global Medical Publishing, ABBVIE | ||
| Megan L. Ealy | Otosclerosis – Identifying genetic contributions to a complex hearing disorder | Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Department of Otolaryngology, Stanford Univ | ||
| Salleh N. Ehaideb | "Elucidating the mechanism of prickle-associated epilepsy in flies" | |||
| Matthew Faron | "Francisella tularensis virulence gene expression and the role of alveolar type II epithelial cells in early pneumonic tularemia" | Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. Pathology, Medical College of Wisconsin | ||
| Tony Fischer | "Augmenting Antiviral Host Defense in the Respiratory Epithelium" | Assistant Professor, Dept. of Allergy/Pulmonary Medicine, UIHC | ||
| 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 Fox | Using Drosophila oogeneis to define the role of prostaglandin signaling in collective, invasive cell migration | |||
| Tyson Fuller | Insights into neurodevelopmental disorders: Molecular and behavioral studies using the zebrafish | |||
| Sophia C. Gaynor | Genetic and Functional Approaches to Understanding Suicidal Behavior | |||
| Joseph Giacalone | Treating retinal disease | |||
| Wesley Goar | Computational strategies to investigate the genetic causes of human eye disease | Senior Bioinformatics Scientist and Associate Manager of Bioinformatics, Immortagen | ||
| Alexander Greiner | Genetic and Molecular Basis of Sudden Cardiac Death Syndromes | Resident Physician, 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 | ||
| Jeremiah D. Hackett | Endosymbiosis and Genome Evolution | Associate Dean, Graduate & Postoctoral Affairs, Dept of Ecology and Evolutional Biology, Univ of Arizona | ||
| Carmen Halabi | Interference with PPAR(gamma) Function in Smooth Muscle Causes Vascular Dysfunction and Hypertension | Pediatric Nephrology Fellow, Washingto Univ/St. Louis Children's Hospital | ||
| Chris A. Hamm | “Functional genomic analyses of the impact of global hypomethylation and of tumor microenvironment in a rat model of human chondrosarcoma” | Clinical Genomics Scientist, Quintiles | ||
| Sara J. Hanson | “The molecular evolution of reproduction in animals: Insights from sexual and asexual rotifers” | Postdoctoral Fellow, UCD Conway Institute of Biomolecular & Biomedical Research, University College Dublin Ireland | ||
| Jill Hauer | Novel Insights into the Genetic and Immunologic Drivers of C3 Glomerulopathy | |||
| Ralph Hazlewood | “Molecular genetics of optic nerve disease using patients with cavitaryoptic disc anomaly” | Research Postdoctoral Fellow, Vanderbilt Eye Institute, Rachael Kuchtey Lab |