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Genetics GIDP Students
Academic Year 2009-10


Preparing for Student Versus Faculty Softball Game, May 2008.
Left to right:
Devika Unnithan, Maureen Peterson, Bob Fitak, Matt Hart, Helen Smith,
Robert Valenzuela('s back), Dr. Murray Brilliant, Dr. Tom Doetschmann, Bridget Barker

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

Year Entered/ Degree

Research Advisor

Research Interest or Undergrad Degree

E-Mail Address

Office/Lab Phone

Bridget Barker

Transfer Spring 06/PhD

Scott Kroken

Population genetics of Valley Fever fungus

bmbarker@email.arizona.edu

626-9942

Katie Olson Dempsey

Fall 2005/PhD

Sue Kim, CoM Phoenix

MD/PhD Program-Med School Fall07-Spring 09; PhD work Fall 09-Spring 11

olsonk1@email.arizona.edu

 

Robert (Bob) Fitak

Spring 2008/PhD

Melanie Culver

Genomics and conservation genetics

rfitak@email.arizona.edu

 

Matt(hew) Hart

Fall 2006/ PhD

Joyce Schroeder

Interaction between EGFR and Muc1 in breast cancer

mhart@email.arizona.edu

626-0207

 

Joseph Kunkel

Fall 2009/PhD

Rotations

BS Biology/Statistics, University of New Mexico

jkunkel@email.arizona.edu

626-9821

Mary Paniscus

Spring 2008/PhD

Maggie So

Comparative genomics of the pathogenicity-commensality continuum of the Neisseriae

paniscus@email.arizona.edu

 

Maureen Peterson

Fall 2006/
PhD

Vicki Chandler (Gio Bosco)

Epigenetics of human complex disease

mopete@email.arizona.edu

621-8964

 

Jason Pugh

Fall 2008/ PhD

Rotations

BA English Lit, Millsaps College; non-degree grad work, Univ of AZ

jlpugh@email.arizona.edu

626-9821

 

Atlantis Russ

Fall 2008/PhD

Joyce Schroeder & Daniela Zarnescu

Investigate the role of Lgl in maintenance of cell polarity & cancer progression in 3 model systems

atlantis_russ@hotmail.com

 

 

Helen Smith

Fall 2005/ PhD

Gio Bosco

Role of Drosophila retinoblastoma protein homologue in different tissues

hfsmith@email.arizona.edu

626-1235

 

Devika Unnithan

Spring 2007/ PhD

Elizabeth Vierling

Nitric oxide metabolism and plant reproduction

dunnitha@email.arizona.edu

621-3977

 

Robert Valenzuela

Fall 2005/ PhD

Murray Brilliant

Developing conceptual models for complex traits

rkv1@email.arizona.edu

626-4344

 

 
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