The August 2009 issue of PLoS Genetics features a cover image illustrating the article by Genetics faculty members Ravi Palanivelu and David Mount.

Felicia Goodrum was the only professor in Arizona honored with the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. Goodrum, who works in the departments of immunobiology and molecular and cellular biology and is a member of the Genetics GIDP faculty, BIO5 Institute and Arizona Cancer Center, studies the human cytomegalovirus, or HGMV.

Name

Degree/Year Earned

Faculty Advisor

Thesis/Dissertation Title

Current Appointment

Ssucheng Jeff Hsu

Ph.D./May 1998

Minor: Cancer Biology

Robert Erickson

Physical and Genetic Mapping on Mouse Proximal Chromosome 18

Postdoctoral research, UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center

Patrick M. O’Grady II

Ph.D./May 1998

Minor: Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

Margaret Kidwell

Phylogenetic relationships of flies in the family drosophilidae inferred by combined analysis of molecular and morphological data sets

Assistant Professor, Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management, University of California, Berkeley

Shermali Gunawardena

Ph.D./May 1999

Minor: Cell Biology & Anatomy

Mary Rykowski

Interphase Chromosome Movement During the Mid-Blastula Transition in Drosophila Melanogaster

Assistant Professor, Dept of Biological Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo

Joana Carneiro da Silva

Ph.D./August 2000

Minor: Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

Margaret Kidwell

Population genetics of P transposable elements and their host species, with emphasis on Drosophila willistoni and Drosophila sturtevanti

Assistant Professor, Microbiology & Immunology & Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine

Eric K. Nordberg

M.S./May 2002

None

Research Associate, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Blacksburg, VA

Timothy R. Radabaugh

Ph.D./August 2003

Minor: Genetics

Roy R. Parker

Oxidation and reduction of inorganic arsenic in mammalian systems

Research Associate, BIO5 Institute, University of Arizona

Zanhua Yi, M.D.

Ph.D./May 2005

Minor: Physiological Sciences

Murray Brilliant

Analysis of the Mouse p 100H Mutation: Implication for Two Human Disease Related Genes, P and SOX6

Clinical Residency, Bridgeport Hospital, Yale University, Bridgeport, Connecticut

Tracy Scheinkman

M.S./August 2005

Melanie Culver

None

Adjunct Professor, Biology, Pima Community College

Sally Purdom Dickinson

Ph.D./December 2005

Qin Chen

Early Responses to Oxidative Stress in Heart Cells: Signals from the Cell Membrane to the Nucleus and Beyond

Postdoctoral research, University of Arizona Cancer Center

Holly Garriock

Ph.D./May 2006

Robert Erickson/Francisco Moreno

Genetics of Major Depressive Disorder in Treatment Resistance and Tryptophan Depletion

Postdoctoral research, Lab of Steven Hamilton, UCSF, Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute

Susan Mayelzadeh

Ph.D./May 2006

Jesse Martinez

Mechanism of p53 Transactivation

Postdoctoral fellow, Experimental Therapeutics

Elena Crestani, M.D.

M.S./August 2006

Donata Vercelli

None

Residency in Pediatrics, UT Health Science Center at Houston

Jannine Strempel

Ph.D./May 2008

Donata Vercelli

The Regulation of Th2 Cytokine Genes: Functional and Comparative Genomic Analysis

Postdoctoral research, BIO5 Institute, University of Arizona

Patricia Ortiz Kiesler 

Ph.D./May 2009

Donata Vercelli

Functional Characterization of an Allergy-Associated Regulatory Variant at the Human IL 13 Locus

Pending