Research

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Orly Alter

Adjunct Associate Professor

John Atkins

Research Professor Emeritus

Brenda L. Bass

Adjunct Professor

Justin A. Bosch

Assistant professor

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

jabosch@genetics.utah.edu

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Nicola Camp

Adjunct Professor

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

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Richard M. Cawthon

Research Associate Professor

Molecular gerontology; Healthspan; Lifespan; Rejuvenation

rcawthon@genetics.utah.edu

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Clement Y. Chow

Associate Professor

Rare disease; Modifier genes; Drug repurposing; Precision medicine

cchow@genetics.utah.edu

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Jorge L. Contreras

Adjunct Associate Professor

Bruce Edgar

Adjunct Professor

Karen Eilbeck

Adjunct Associate Professor

Nels Elde

Professor; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

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

nelde@genetics.utah.edu

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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

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Raymond Gesteland

Emeritus Profesor

Christopher Gregg

Adjunct Assistant Professor

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

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Stephen Guthery

Adjunct Professor

Lynn B. Jorde

Professor and Chair

Disease-gene identification; Population genetics

lbj@genetics.utah.edu

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Erik M. Jorgensen

Adjunct Distinguished Professor

Michael Jurynec

Research Assistant Professor

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

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Kristen Kwan

Associate Professor

Eye morphogenesis, Zebrafish imaging, Extracellular matrix signaling

kmkwan@genetics.utah.edu

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Ed Laufer

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Ellen Leffler

Assistant Professor

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

leffler@genetics.utah.edu

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Mark Leppert

Distinguished Professor - Emeritus

Anthea Letsou

Professor

Drosophila embryonic development; Cell signaling; Morphogenesis; Trainee education

aletsou@genetics.utah.edu

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Suzanne L. Mansour

Professor

Mouse inner ear development; FGF signaling; Mouse models of human hearing loss; Genome engineering

suzi.mansour@genetics.utah.edu

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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

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Mark Metzstein

Associate Professor

Graduate and medical student education; Graduate student mentoring; Genetics

markm@genetics.utah.edu

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Anne M. Moon

Adjunct Associate Professor

Charles Murtaugh

Associate Professor

Pancreatic cancer; Differentiation; Signaling; Gene regulation

murtaugh@genetics.utah.edu

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Deb Neklason

John Opitz

Adjunct Professor

Marcus Pezzolesi

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Josef T. Prchal

Adjunct Professor

Stefan M. Pulst

Adjunct Professor

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

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