Faculty

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tenure track

Justin A. Bosch

Justin A. Bosch

Assistant professor

Cell Signaling; Genetics; Development; Inter-organ communication; Drosophila; CRISPR; plasma proteomics; AlphaFold; human missense variants

jabosch@​genetics.utah.edu
Mario Capecchi

Mario Capecchi

Professor; H.A. and Edna Benning Presidential Endowed Chair

Microglia; Anxiety; Chronic anxiety disorder; Obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorder (OCSD); Compulsive grooming; Neuropsychiatric disorders

mario.capecchi@​genetics.utah.edu
Clement Y. Chow

Clement Y. Chow

Associate Professor

Rare disease; Modifier genes; Drug repurposing; Precision medicine

cchow@​genetics.utah.edu
Nels Elde

Nels Elde

Professor; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Evolutionary genetics; Host-pathogen interactions; Virus discovery; Molecular evolution

nelde@​genetics.utah.edu
Marina Venero Galanternik

Marina Venero Galanternik

Assistant Professor

Meninges; zebrafish; developmental and vascular biology; meningeal cells; neuroanatomy; perivascular meningeal cells; lymphatic system; lymphatic vessels; meningeal layers; high-resolution microscopy

marina.venero@​genetics.utah.edu
David Jonah Grunwald

David Jonah Grunwald

Professor

Maintenance of embryo stem cells; Transcription pausing; Calcium mobilization in tissue patterning; Genome editing; Genetics of osteoarthritis

grunwald@​genetics.utah.edu
Lynn B. Jorde

Lynn B. Jorde

Professor and Chair

Disease-gene identification; Population genetics

lbj@​genetics.utah.edu
Gabrielle Kardon

Gabrielle Kardon

Professor; H.A. and Edna Benning Presidential Endowed Chair.

Muscle development, regeneration, and disease; Effects of viral infection on muscle structure and function

gkardon@​genetics.utah.edu
Kristen Kwan

Kristen Kwan

Associate Professor

Eye morphogenesis, Zebrafish imaging, Extracellular matrix signaling

kmkwan@​genetics.utah.edu
Ellen Leffler

Ellen Leffler

Assistant Professor

Human and non-human primate evolutionary genomics; Infectious disease.

leffler@​genetics.utah.edu
Anthea Letsou

Anthea Letsou

Professor

Drosophila embryonic development; Cell signaling; Morphogenesis; Trainee education

aletsou@​genetics.utah.edu
Gabor Marth

Gabor Marth

Professor; Co-Director, Utah Center for Genetic Discovery; H.A. and Edna Benning Presidential Endowed Chair

DNA sequence variations; Computational algorithms; Comprehensive web tool system

gmarth@​genetics.utah.edu
Mark Metzstein

Mark Metzstein

Associate Professor

Graduate and medical student education; Graduate student mentoring; Genetics

markm@​genetics.utah.edu
Charles Murtaugh

Charles Murtaugh

Associate Professor

Pancreatic cancer; Differentiation; Signaling; Gene regulation

murtaugh@​genetics.utah.edu
Aaron Quinlan

Aaron Quinlan

Professor; Associate Director, Utah Center for Genetic Discovery

Human genome interpretation; Application of genomics to clinical care; Chromosome stability and somatic genome evolution; Algorithm and genomics software development; Cancer genetics; Nucleotide repeat disorders; Population genomics; Genetics of complex cisease

aquinlan@​genetics.utah.edu
Gillian Stanfield

Gillian Stanfield

Associate Professor

Genetics; Graduate student mentoring; Undergraduate Medical Education; Pathways to Medical School

gillians@​genetics.utah.edu
Louisa A. Stark

Louisa A. Stark

Professor; H.A. and Edna Benning Presidential Endowed Chair; Associate Director, Genetic Science Learning Center

Science and health educational materials development and research; Community engagement

louisa.stark@​utah.edu
Robert Weiss

Robert Weiss

Professor

Inherited neuromuscular disorders; Modifier genes; Pedigree studies

bob.weiss@​genetics.utah.edu
Mark Yandell

Mark Yandell

Professor; H.A. and Edna Benning Presidential Endowed Chair; Director, Eccles Institute Bioinformatics program; Technical Director, Utah Genome Project; Co-Director, USTAR Center for Genetic Discovery

Computational biology; Human population genetics; Image processing; Computer-assisted bioinformatics; Comparative genomics

myandell@​genetics.utah.edu
Xiaoxu Yang

Xiaoxu Yang

Assistant Professor

Mosaicism, Bioinformatics, Human Genetics

xiaoxu.yang@​genetics.utah.edu