FACULTY
Training Faculty
| Faculty Name | Research Interest and Profiles | Faculty Email |
Tamim Shaikh, PhD, Graduate Program Director | Copy number variation in developmental delay, intellectual disabilities, and related conditions. Genome structure, rearrangements and evolution. | |
Cheryl Ackert-Bicknell, PhD | Genetics of bone formation, bone quality, and osteoporosis. | |
Kristin Artinger, PhD | Developmental genetics of the neural crest. | |
Emily Bates, PhD | Molecular mechanisms of pediatric disorders. | |
| Ganna Bilousova, PhD | Collagen-Related Diseases: Mechanisms and Gene Therapy Development Faculty Profile | GANNA.BILOUSOVA@CUANSCHUTZ.EDU |
| Martin Breuss, PhD | Genomic and cellular mosaicism: 1] its role in and impact on disease; 2] its use as a lineage mark | Martin.Breuss@cuanschutz.edu |
Katrina Claw, PhD | Pharmacogenomics, genomic studies of nicotine metabolism, ethical, legal, and social implications (ELSI) of genomic research, genomic variation in health and disease. | |
David Clouthier, PhD | Genetics of craniofacial and cardiovascular development. | |
| Caroline Dias, MD, PhD | Neurogenetic mechanisms of human brain function Dias Lab website | caroline.dias@childrenscolorado.org |
Joaquin Espinosa, PhD | Genomics and tumor suppressor and oncogenes in cancer biology, trisomy 21 and Down syndrome. | |
Tasha E. Fingerlin, PhD | Association studies of complex disorders; type 2 diabetes mellitus | |
Christopher Gignoux, PhD | Interests in applications of population genetic theory, statistical modeling, and algorithmic development to improve large-scale, trans-ethnic, and biobank studies. | |
| Casey Greene, PhD | Machine learning approaches that integrate large collections of public data to model and understand complex biological systems. Investigate different biological conditions, including those with limited data, such as rare diseases. | casey.s.greene@cuanschutz.edu |
| Melissa Haendel, PhD | Translational informatics focused on data integration across sources and species for rare disease diagnostics and discovery | melissa.haendel@cuanschutz.edu |
Audrey Hendricks, PhD | Statistical method development and application: (1) to increase the utility of large, publicly available genetic databases and (2) for longitudinal, ‘omics studies. | |
Larry Hunter, PhD | Bioinformatics and computational biology. | |
Sujatha Jagannathan PhD | Nonsense-mediated RNA decay in health and disease. | sujatha.jagannathan@cuanschutz.edu
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| Colleen G. Julian, PhD | Human genetic adaptation and physiologic responses to the hypoxia of high altitude; hypoxia-related vascular disorders of pregnancy. | Colleen.Julian@cuanschutz.edu |
Katerina Kechris, PhD | Development and application of statistical methods for analyzing -omics data sets. | |
| Ethan Lange, PhD | Study design for gene-mapping studies, including the use of multistage study designs and the use of public genetic resources to improve power for gene discovery. | Ethan.Lange@cuanschutz.edu |
Leslie Lange, PhD | Research focuses on the genetic epidemiology of complex traits, primarily regarding cardiovascular disease, obesity, diabetes, and pulmonary-related phenotypes. | |
Amanda Law, PhD | The developmental mechanisms underlying genetic and environmental risk for schizophrenia with the aim of identifying novel biological pathways for treatment development. The Neurodevelopmental and Neuropsychiatric Genetics Research Lab | |
James T. Nichols, PhD | The Nichols Lab uses the zebrafish system to understand craniofacial development and variability. We are especially interested in how genotypic mutants overcome a deleterious mutation to produce the wild-type phenotype. | |
Paul J. Norman, PhD | We study the genetic and functional immune diversity of indigenous groups worldwide, including African hunter-gatherers, Australians and Pacific Islanders. We also study ancient humans, and perform comparative evolutionary analyses of multiple other species. | |
Jill Norris, PhD | The genetic epidemiology of autoimmune diseases and the nutrigenetics and nutrigenomics of type 1 diabetes. | |
David Pollock, PhD | Research projects in our laboratory range from pure theoretical (mathematical or computational) biology to purely empirical research (PCR and sequencing to obtain critical sequence biodiversity information, or site-directed mutagenesis, gene synthesis and directed evolution to test computationally-derived theories of protein sequence and structure/function relationships). | |
Huntington Potter, PhD | Neurodegenerative diseases, particularly Alzheimer's Disease, and trisomy 21/Down Syndrome. | |
| Sridharan Raghavan, MD, PhD | Study the causes and consequences of cardiometabolic diseases and anthropometric traits, particularly focused on type 2 diabetes mellitus, diabetes complications, height, and adiposity. | Sridharan.Raghavan@cuanschutz.edu |
Marian Rewers, MD, PhD | Etiology, epidemiology and clinical outcomes of type 1 diabetes & cardiovascular complications of both type 1 and type 2 diabetes. | |
Dennis Roop, PhD | Genetics of skin disease and skin development: stem cell biology. | |
Stephanie Santorico, PhD | Methods and Designs in Statistical Genetics and Genetic Epidemiology including High-Dimensional Data, Multivariate Statistical Inference, Genetic Risk Prediction, and Disease Sub-typing, Variance Components Methods, Multivariate Linkage, Family-Based Association Tests, and Meta-Analysis. | |
Regie Santos-Cortez MD, PhD | Otolaryngology, Identify novel genes for otitis media susceptibility. | |
David Schwartz, MD, PhD | Genetics and epigenetics of environmental lung disease. | |
Max Seibold, PhD | Genetics/Genomic Analysis of the Airway Epithelium in Asthma. | |
Kelly D. Sullivan, PhD | Interferon signaling in Down syndrome. | |
Matthew Taylor, MD, PhD | Genetics studies of inherited cardiomyopathies, polycystic kidney disease, intellectual disabilities, hereditary vascular diseases, Barth syndrome, Danon disease, and lysosomal storage diseases. | |
Johan Van Hove, MD, PhD | Biochemical genetics, mitochondrial diseases, and neurogenetics. | |
| Gregory Way, PhD | Integrative genomics, imaging, cell biology, machine learning, and data science. | gregory.way@cuanschutz.edu |
| Laura Wiley, PhD | The Wiley lab develops methods for using electronic health records (EHRs) for genomic research and the learning health system. | laura.wiley@cuanschutz.edu |
Trevor Williams, PhD | Transcriptional control of development and cancer. | |
Ivana Yang, PhD | Genetic and biological determinants of environmental and occupational lung disease. | |
Michael Yeager, PhD | The primary goal of the Yeager Lab is to understand how the lung vasculature (blood and lymphatic) operates during episodes of acute and chronic inflammation. |
Non-Training Faculty
| Faculty | Research Interest | Contact |
| Erin E. Austin, PhD | Building statistical tools to analyze associations between genetic data and phenotypic data. Discover/cultivate interests in electronic health record data, network analysis in the PheWAS setting, gene- variant-level testing of single or multiple traits. | Erin.E.Austin@UCDENVER.EDU |
| Peter Baker II, MD | Clinical Genetics and Metabolism, Maternal obesity effects offspring energy sensing and metabolism | Peter.BakerII@cuanschutz.edu |
Curt R. Freed, MD Professor Emeritus | Genetic causes of Parkinson's disease. Modeling human genetic diseases with patient-derived induced pluripotent stem cells. Freed Research Profile | Curt.Freed@cuanschutz.edu |
| Judith Gault, PhD | Genetics of cerebral vascular malformations. | Judith.Gault@cuanschutz.edu |
| Nancy Hadley-Miller, PhD | Genetics idiopathic scoliosis complex orthopedic disorders. | Nancy.Hadley-Miller@cuanschutz.edu |
| Greggory LaBerge, PhD | Forensic Genetics. | Greggory.LaBerge@cuanschutz.edu |
| Shawn E. McCandless, MD | Pathophysiology and Treatment of Medium-Chain Acyl-CoA Dehydrogenase Deficiency. | Shawn.Mccandless@cuanschutzedu |
| Luisa Mestroni, MD | Genetics of adult heart disease; cardiomyopathies. | Luisa.Mestroni@cuanschutz.edu |
| York E. Miller, MD | Mouse models of lung cancer risk; Use of genetically modified mice to assess potential lung cancer chemoprevention strategies. | York.Miller@cuanschutz.edu |
| Tzu Phang, PhD | Bioinformatics education. | Tzu.Phang@cuanschutz.edu |
| Richard Radcliffe, PhD | CNS gene expression in genetic differences in acute alcohol sensitivity and tolerance. Radcliffe Faculty Profile | Richard.Radcliffe@cuanschutz.edu |
| Elaine Spector, PhD | Clinical molecular genetics, the transition of research findings to clinical testing. | Elaine.Spector@cuanschutz.edu |
Richard Spritz, MD, Professor Emeritus | Mapping, discovery, and function of disease genes affecting skin, autoimmunity, and craniofacial development. | Richard.Spritz@cuanschutz.edu |
| Janet Thomas, MD | Clinical genetics, biochemical genetics, and genetic counseling. | Thomas.Janet@childrenscolorado.org |