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Current students

Theresa Nguyen ('14) -- Array CGH on putative aneuploid strains.

Alex Murphy ('15) -- Aneuploid yeast genetics. See her GSA Undergraduate Travel Award.

Former students

Keegan Geis ('13) -- Made a knockout strain. Characterized karyotypes and phenotypes of the aneuploids. Currently: Creighton Medical School.

Ashley Wildman ('13) -- Constructed aneuploid TUB2 deletion strains. Currently: Teaching English in Europe.

Michael West ('13) -- Constructed aneuploid TUB2--ACT1 deletion strains.

Emma Kershisnik ('12) -- Made a CDC14 knockout strain. Investigated stability of aneuploids.

Shawna Pfeif ('12) -- Worked to delete integrase from the mycobacteriophage GUmbie.


Ingrid Velez
('11) -- Constructed CDC14 plasmid.

Sarah Dupont ('11) -- Worked to express Green Fluorescent Protein in Hefeweizen yeast. Currently: Jesuit Volunteer Corps.

Jenna Peterson ('12) -- Confirmed integration of TUB1 into chromosome VI. Isolated VI disomes in TUB1 integration strains.Currently: Rush Medical College.

Kun Yang kun('10) -- Constructed TUB1 TUB2 plasmid. Isolated VI disomes in TUB2 deletion strain, demonstrating that duplication of TUB2 is necessary for disomic VI lethality. Characterized karyotypes and phenotypes of the aneuploids. Constructed ACT1 LEU2 plasmid. Currently: Shanghai Medical College of Fudan University.

Isaac Strong ('10) -- Constructed TUB1 LEU2 plasmid. isaacDemonstrated functionality of duplication detector. Array CGH on VI aneuploids. [news][photo][article] Currently: PhD student in the Tetrad Program at UCSF.

kirstieKirstie Keller ('10) -- Worked on plasmid constructions and integrating TUB1 into chromosome VI. [article] Currently: PhD student in the Cell, Molecular, Developmental Biology, and Biophysics Program at The Johns Hopkins University. [paper]

Liz Miller ('08) -- Deleted TUB2 from modified chromosome VI. Worked on plasmid constructions. Currently: Technical Lead for Analysis at Signature Genomics.

Chris Shellooe ('08) -- Troubleshot IV and VI disome isolation. Showed that IV disomes could be isolated with a "delayed selection" protocol. Post-GU: Mammalian Cell Culture Process Development Associate at CMC ICOS Biologics, Seattle, WA. Currently: Research Technician in T-cell and stem cell culture and process development at The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA.

Justin Platon ('08) -- Developed assays that were used in the construction and analysis of aneuploid-inducible yeast strains. Microarray-based CGH assays on candidate IV disomic strains.

Daniel Pauw ('07) -- Constructed and studied strains that should be able to be induced to gain chromosome VI. Currently: Grad student in Information Sciences, U of W. [photo]

Julie Kudrna ('06) -- Helped set up the lab at Gonzaga. Used Chan and Botstein yeast strain to study spontaneous chromosome duplications. Initiated use of microarrays at Gonzaga to identify aneuploidies in yeast. Constructed and studied strains that can be induced to gain chromosome IV. [Poster, Princeton 2006] [Photo] Post-GU: Jesuit Volunteer Corps, non-profit work. Masters Degree in Public Policy.

Jasdeep Kaur ('06) -- Pilot studies on loss of minichromosomes in aneuploids. Integrated conditional centromere into chromosome X. Currently: OHSU med school graduate.

Andy Peck ('05) -- Engineered DNA integration cassettes to induce and select for chromosome duplication. Integrated these cassettes into several yeast chromosomes. Currently: UW med school graduate, radiation oncology resident.

Bre Kinghorn ('05) -- Engineered DNA integration cassettes to induce and select for chromosome duplication. Integrated these cassettes into several yeast chromosomes. Currently: UW med school graduate, pediatrics resident.

Jillion Harris (Harvard '04) -- Summer 2002/Stanford Summer Research Program -- exposed steady-state chemostat cultures of yeast to rapamycin and examined gene expression profiles by microarray. Currently: Duke med school graduate

Allan Tulloch (Harvard '01) -- Summer 1999/Stanford Dept of Genetics -- searched for genes that, when overexpressed, would suppress the lethality of the hyperstable alpha-tubulin mutant TUB3-E255A. Currently: Columbia med school graduate

High school students

Allyson Pierce, Wellpinit High School (summer 2013)
James Prouty, Wellpinit High School (summer 2009)