Past Students
| Name | Dissertation | Started Sort descending | PhD earned | Current position |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Danielle S. Rudd | Genomic Copy Number Variation in Schizophrenia | Research Scientist, Veterans Affairs Medical Center | ||
| Elizabeth Leslie | "Advances in Understanding the Genetic Architecture of Cleft Lip and Palate Disorders" | Assistant Professor, Oral Biology, Univ of Pittsburgh, School of Dental Medicine | ||
| 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 | ||
| Lily Paemka | "Prickle protein regulation." | Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Dept. of Pediatrics, UIOWA | ||
| 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 | ||
| Farah Alul | “Investigating the Genetics of Thyroid Stimulating Hormone in Newborns” | |||
| Ji Wan | "Global Analysis of Alternative Polyadenylation Regulation using High-throughput Sequencing" | Postdoctoral Associate, Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell Univ | ||
| Amber Hohl | “Understanding the role of topoisomerase 2 in chromosome associations” | Lab Superintendent, Dept. of Engineering, Iowa Fertilizer | ||
| Xitiz Chamling | Identification and characterization of cep131 as a bbsome interacting protein | Postdoctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine | ||
| Johnny Cruz Corchado | Causes and consequences of crossing over variation in Drosophila melanogaster | |||
| Matthew Jorgenson | "Breaking down walls: studies of RlpA from Pseudomonas aeruginosa" | Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Alabama for Medical Sciences | ||
| Ralph Hazlewood | “Molecular genetics of optic nerve disease using patients with cavitaryoptic disc anomaly” | Research Postdoctoral Fellow, Vanderbilt Eye Institute, Rachael Kuchtey Lab | ||
| 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 | ||
| Samuel Trammell | Novel nad+ metabolomic technologies and their applications to nicotinamide riboside interventions | |||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| Juan Santana | "The Dm-Myb oncoprotein coordinates higher-order chromatin structure to potentiate expression of target genes as well as stabilize facultative heterochromatin" | |||
| Benjamin T. Brett | "A computational approach for comparative oncogenomics using mouse models" | Senior Bioinformation, PreventionGenetics | ||
| Katie A. Weihbrecht | Characterization Of The Biological Role Of The Ciliopathy Gene Serologically Defined Colon Cancer Antigen 8 (Sdccag8) | |||
| Ashlyn M. Spring | "A postsynaptic signaling system for the regulation of homeostatic synaptic plasticity" | |||
| Bing He | Systematic Analysis of Enhancer and Promoter Interactions | Postdoc, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia | ||
| Alex H. Wagner | "Computational methods for identification of disease-associated variations in exome sequencing" | Postdoctoral Research Associate, McDonnell Genome Institute, Washington Univ | ||
| 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" | |||
| Hung-Lin Chen | “Environmental and genetic modifiers of Shudderer, a Drosophila voltage-gated sodium channel mutant.” | |||
| S. Scott Whitmore | Molecular Investigations of Age-Related Macular Degeneration | Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Molecular Ophthalmology Laboratory, Stephen A. Wynn Institute for Vision Research, UIOWA | ||
| 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) | ||
| 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” | |||
| Melissa Marchal | Paradoxical metastasis suppressor functions of Abl family kinases in a model of androgen receptor-indifferent advanced prostate cancer | |||
| Salleh N. Ehaideb | "Elucidating the mechanism of prickle-associated epilepsy in flies" | |||
| 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)" | |||
| 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 | |||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 |