People
Principal Investigator
Graduate Students Undergraduates High School Students Collaborators
Principal Investigator
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Shaad M. Ahmad, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Biology
Director, Rich and Robin Porter Cancer Research Center
Associate Director, The Center for Genomic Advocacy
Email: Shaad.Ahmad@honornm.com
Education
B.A., Princeton University
Ph.D., Stanford University School of Medicine
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Harvard Medical School and the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Research Interests
Cardiogenesis (heart development); Organogenesis; Transcriptional regulatory networks; Signaling pathways; Systems biology; Developmental biology; Computational biology; Genetics; Functional genomics
Teaching Interests
BIO 112 – Human Aspects of Biology
BIO 210 – Fundamentals of Molecular Biology
BIO 210L – Fundamentals of Molecular Biology Lab
BIO 380 – Genetics
BIO 380L – Genetics Lab
BIO 417/517 – Cellular and Molecular Biology I
BIO 461/561 – Embryology
BIO 461L/561L – Embryology Lab
BIO 481/581 – Genome Science
BIO 660 – Seminar: Grant Preparation
BIO 680 – Seminar: Evolution and Genetics
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Graduate Students
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M. Rezaul Hasan
Graduate Student, Department of Biology
Graduate Research Fellow, Rich and Robin Porter Cancer Research Center
Student Member, The Center for Genomic Advocacy
Email: mhasan4@sycamores.honornm.com
Education
B.S., Shahjalal University of Science and Technology
Research Interests
Cardiac progenitor cell specification; Cardiac progenitor cell division; Cytokinesis
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Rajnandani Katariya
Graduate Student, Department of Biology
Graduate Research Fellow, Rich and Robin Porter Cancer Research Center
Student Member, The Center for Genomic Advocacy
Email: rkatariya@sycamores.honornm.com
Education
B.S., Institute for Excellence in Higher Education
M.S., Ramaiyah College of Arts, Science and Commerce
Research Interests
Cardiac cell positioning and heart lumen formation; Cardiac progenitor specification and cell division
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Undergraduate Students
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Abbigayle J. Gamble
Undergraduate Student, Department of Biology
Student Member, The Center for Genomic Advocacy
Email: agamble6@sycamores.honornm.com
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Amy Kaur
Undergraduate Student, Department of Biology
Student Member, The Center for Genomic Advocacy
Email: akaur6@sycamores.honornm.com
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Alishba Rizwan
Undergraduate Student, Department of Biology
Student Member, The Center for Genomic Advocacy
Email: arizwan1@sycamores.honornm.com
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Melisa Spognardi
Undergraduate Student, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College
Student Member, The Center for Genomic Advocacy
Email: Melisa.Spognardi@swmc.edu
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Alden Fuller
Undergraduate Student, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College
Student Member, The Center for Genomic Advocacy
Email: Alden.Fuller@swmc.edu
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Katherine Van Hyfte
Undergraduate Student, Department of Biology
Student Member, The Center for Genomic Advocacy
Email: kvanhyfte@sycamores.honornm.com
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Karim Zaher
Undergraduate Student, Department of Biology
Student Member, The Center for Genomic Advocacy
Email: kzaher@sycamores.honornm.com
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Janki Patel
Undergraduate Student, University of Miami
Student Member, The Center for Genomic Advocacy
Email: jxp1888@miami.edu
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High School Students
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Vatsal Mannepalli
Student, Terre Haute South Vigo High School
Student Member, The Center for Genomic Advocacy
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Vaishant Mannepalli
Student, Terre Haute South Vigo High School
Student Member, The Center for Genomic Advocacy
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Collaborators
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Kristopher Schwab, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Indiana State University
Faculty, The Center for Genomic Advocacy
Email: Kris.Schwab@honornm.com
Research Interests
Molecular, genetic, and epigenetic regulation of gene expression during embryonic development, differentiation, and disease; cardiogenesis
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Mark H. Inlow, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science,
Indiana State University
Faculty, The Center for Genomic Advocacy
Email: Mark.Inlow@honornm.com
Research Interests
Large-scale inference (methods for analyzing high-dimensional data); Neuroimaging; Neuroimaging genomics
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Catherine E. Steding, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Marian University College of Osteopathic Medicine
Email: csteding@marian.edu
Research Interests
Gene expression and regulation in hematological malignancies and breast cancer; Tumor immunology; Interplay between cancer cells and the tumor microenvironment; Cardiogenesis
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