Genetics PhD Mentors

Reid Alisch

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Neurological Surgery
The role of epigenetics in human health and disease processes, particularly in relation to the origins of mental illness.

Richard Amasino

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Biochemsitry
Understanding how plants sense and respond to seasonal environmental changes

Matt Anderson

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Medical Genetics
Gene families, Intraspecies variation, genome evolution, population dynamics, microbiomes

Jean-Michel Ané

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Bacteriology/Plant and Agroecosystem Sciences
Symbiotic associations between plants and microbes (bacteria and fungi)

Alan Attie

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Biochemistry
Genetics & Genomics of Metabolic Disease and Response to Diet

Anjon Audhya

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Biomolecular Chemistry
Regulation of vesicle biogenesis and membrane transport during development

Arash Bashirullah

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Pharmacy
Intercellular communication: uncovering mechanisms that coordinate the development of multicellular organisms

Andrew Bent

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Plant Pathology
Molecular/Genetic Mechanisms of Plant Disease Resistance

Seth Blair

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Integrative Biology
Developmental genetics of patterning and cell signaling in Drosophila

Barak Blum

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Cell and Regenerative Biology
Regenerative biology of the endocrine pancreas, genetics of type-1 and type-2 diabetes

Karl Broman

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Biostatistics and Medical Informatics
Statistical problems in genetics and genomics, particularly methods for identifying genes contributing to variation in complex traits in experimental organisms.

Jake Brunkard

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Genetics
Plant Biology, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, Genetics, Genomics

Hao Chang

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Dermatology
Planar cell polarity in mammalian skin development and cancer

Qiang Chang

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Medical Genetics and Neurology
DNA methylation-dependent epigenetic regulation of brain functions

Kerri Coon

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Bacteriology
Insect-microbe interactions, impacts of gut microbes on the biology of disease vectors

Timothy Donohue

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Bacteriology
Unlocking the secrets of microbes to benefit society

Katie Drerup

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Integrative Biology
Neuronal Cell Biology, Neurodegenerative disease, Neurodevelopment

Daniela Drummond-Barbosa

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Genetics
Stem cell metabolism and physiology, oogenesis, Drosophila genetics

Andrea Galmozzi

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Medicine
Metabolism - Adipose Tissue physiology - Obesity - Type 2 Diabetes - Cachexia

Audrey Gasch

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Medical Genetics
Elucidating the role, regulation, and evolution of eukaryotic stress responses

Yevgenya Grinblat

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Integrative Biology and Neuroscience
Neural development, zebrafish developmental genetics

Mary Halloran

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Integrative Biology
Neural development, axon transport, motors and cytoskeleton in neurons

Jeff Hardin

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Integrative Biology
Cell movement, cell adhesion, embryonic development

Melissa Harrison

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Biomolecular Chemistry
Transcriptional regulation during development

David Hershey

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Bacteriology
Mechanisms of surface colonization in bacteria and production of complex polysaccharides

Gaelen Hess

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Biomolecular Chemistry
High-throughput functional genomics to investigate DNA repair and pathogenic effectors

Chris Todd Hittinger

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Genetics
Evolutionary genomics of yeast carbon metabolism with applications in brewing and bioenergy

Aaron Hoskins

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Biochemistry
RNA splicing, gene expression, fluorescence microscopy, RNA/protein complexes

Zhen Huang

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Neurology and Nueroscience
Neuron and glial cell fate specification and differentiation, cortical neuron migration, migration disorders

Christina Hull

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Biomolecular Chemistry and Medical Microbiology & Immunology
Fungal pathogen biology, eukaryotic development and differentiation, host-pathogen interactions, molecular mechanisms of infectious spore germination

Anna Huttenlocher

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Pediatrics
Cell migration, Wound repair, Inflammation

Tu-Anh Huynh

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Food Science
Bacterial signaling mechanisms, stress response, antibiotic resistance, pathogenesis

Akihiro Ikeda

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Medical Genetics
Identifying genes involved in aging, cell proliferation and neovascularization using mouse genetics

Junsu Kang

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Cell and Regenerative Biology
Our lab studies how zebrafish possess a remarkable potential to regenerate tissues, such as amputated appendages and damaged heart muscle.

Nancy Keller

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Medical Microbiology and Immunology
Fungal genetics, fungal/bacterial interactions, mining fungal genomes for bioactive chemicals

Judith Kimble

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Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Medical Genetics
Molecular regulation of germ line self-renewal and differentiation in C. elegans

Patrick Krysan

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Horticulture
Functional genomics of Arabidopsis signal transduction

Dudley Lamming

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Medicine
Biology of aging and age-related diseases, diabetes, cancer, Alzheimer’s disease

Robert Landick

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Biochemistry
RNA polymerase structure/function; regulation of RNA chain elongation

Carol Eunmi Lee

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Integrative Biology
Rapid Evolutionary responses to global change, including biological invasions, climate, and pollution. Genetic architecture of invasive species, functional ecological and evolutionary genomics

Peter Lewis

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Biomolecular Chemistry
Mechanisms of chromatin assembly, gene silencing, and epigenetic inheritance

Ci Ji Lim

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Biochemistry
Telomeres, chromatin structure-function relationship, protein-DNA interactions, molecular machines

Valentina Lo Sardo

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Cellular and Molecular Biology
Stem cell biology, reprogramming, cell fate determination, genetic risk factors for Cardiovascular disease and Cancer, genomics, transcriptomics, human specific genomic regions, evolution

Ahmed Mahmoud

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Cell and Regenerative Biology
Mammalian cardiac regeneration

Mark Mandel

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Medical Microbiology and Immunology
Bacterial genetics, colonization of host epithelial tissue, signal transduction, Vibrio fischeri-squid symbiosis

Patrick Masson

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Genetics
Genetic investigations of root growth behaviors and polyamine responses in Arabidopsis thaliana and Brachypodium distachyon

Mark B. Meyer

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Nutritional Sciences
Vitamin D metabolism, inflammatory disease, genetic basis of disease, gene expression regulation, bioinformatics, genome-editing

Phil Newmark

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Integrative Biology
Germ cell development and regeneration in planarians; developmental biology of parasitic flatworms

Marisa Otegui

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Botany
Plant Molecular and Cell Biology; Plant Genetics and Development

Brian Parks

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Nutritional Sciences
Leveraging genetics to understand the pathways and molecular mechanisms that contribute to metabolic diseases.

Bret Payseur

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Genetics and Medical Genetics
Speciation, Evolution of Extreme Phenotypes, Recombination

Francisco Pelegri

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Genetics and Medical Genetics
Cellular and developmental mechanisms in the vertebrate egg-to-embryo transition, early cell fate specification

Caitlin Pepperell

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Medicine
Ecological and evolutionary interactions between humans and human pathogens

Nicole Perna

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Genetics
Systems-scale evolutionary genomics of agriculturally, biomedically and industrially significant bacteria

Jason Peters

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Pharmaceutical Sciences
Roles of bacterial gene networks in antibiotic resistance and biofuel production

John Pool

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Genetics
Population genomics and the genetic basis of adaptive evolution

Tomas Prolla

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Genetics and Medical Genetics
DNA repair, cancer and the aging process

Aaron Ragsdale

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Integrative Biology
Population genetics, applied math, human history and genomics

Vatsan Raman

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Biochemistry
High-throughput functional assays, variant effect prediction, human and microbial genomics

Claire Richardson

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Genetics
Neurobiology, cell biology, aging and stress, genetics, C. elegans

Sushmita Roy

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Biostatistics and Medical Informatics
Machine learning methods; the structure, function and evolution of regulatory networks; predictive models

Steven Schrodi

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Medical Genetics
Human genomics of inflammatory diseases, statistical genetics, genetic architecture of diseases

David Schwartz

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Genetics and Chemistry
Discovery of fundamental molecular phenomena, which are harnessed within fully integrated systems for comprehensive genome analysis; creation of a cell-free system (“GenSyn”) for the direct fabrication of synthetic chromosomes, which adapt/advance micro- and nanofluidics technologies previously developed for genome analysis by the Schwartz group

Prashant P. Sharma

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Integrative Biology
Developmental genetics; evolution of developmental mechanisms; phylogenomics; molecular evolution

Nathaniel Sharp

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Genetics
Mutation, Evolution, Genome Architecture, Genetic Variation, Sexual Selection

Ahna Skop

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Genetics, Medical Genetics
Affiliate appointments in Life Science Communication and Art
Newly appreciated signaling organelle called the midbody (MB) and the midbody remnant (MBR)

Rupa Sridharan

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Cell and Regenerative Biology
Epigenetics: histone modification crosstalk and RNA processing,
Development and differentiation: from mouse and human stem cells
Genomics: Single cell transcriptomics and epigenomics

Owen Tamplin

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Cell and Regenerative Biology
Blood stem cells and their microenvironment

Michael Taylor

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School of Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences Division
Regulation of CNS angiogenesis and barriergenesis

Randal Tibbetts

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Human Oncology
Genetic control of DNA replication and repair in mammals. Mechanisms of neurodegeneration in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)

Daifeng Wang

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Biostatistics and Medical Informatics
Gene regulatory networks, functional genomics, genotype-phenotype prediction, single-cell biology, brain disorders

Han Wang

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Integrative Biology
Molecular and Circuit Mechanisms of Sleep and Behaviors in C. elegans; Development of Novel Genetic Tools

Jue D. (Jade) Wang

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Bacteriology
Bacterial Stress Response, Nucleotide Signaling, Mutagenesis, Antibiotic Resistance

David Wassarman

Credentials: Medical Genetics

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Mechanisms underlying neurodegeneration

Beth A. Weaver

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Cell and Regenerative Biology; Oncology/McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research
Mitosis, Aneuploidy, Chromosomal instability, Cancer

Deneen Wellik

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Cell & Regenerative Biology
The role of Hox genes in the development, growth and homeostasis of the adult skeleton, muscle and lung.

Donna Werling

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Genetics
Genetic risk for autism and other neuropsychiatric conditions, sex differences in neurobiology and risk for disease

Justin Wolter

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Genetics
Genetic modifiers of neurodevelopment

Jerry Yin

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Medical Genetics and Neurology
cAMP/PKA/dCREB2 signaling in sleep, memory formation, neurodegenerative diseases, developmental disabilities

Jing Zhang

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McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research
Cell signaling in hematopoiesis and leukemogenesis

Fei Zhao

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Comparative Biosciences
Sex organ development

Xinyu Zhao

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Neuroscience
Gene regulation of stem cells and brain development, autism spectrum disorders