IGERT Trainees

[UO trainees]

2008-2009 Trainees

	Amy Cash: Developmental genomics of Drosophila oogenesis			Luke Hoekstra: Physiological basis of adaptation to environmental stress.
	James Costello: Bioinformatics - integrate disparate sources of Drosophila data to better understand gene function.			David Van Dyken
	Doug Drury: Evolutionary genetic consequences of population subdivision, gene interactions, and the genetic basis of hybrid incompatibility.			Bethany Wasik: Evolution and development of beetle horns and horn diversity.

Recent IGERT Trainees

	Michael Barker: Speciation and genome evolution in ferns.			Phil Nista: Drosophila simulans selective sweeps and patterns of serial autocorrelation in genomic data.
	Ben Blackman: Genetic basis of natural variation in the timing of the transition from vegetative to floral development.			Amanda Posto: Evolutionary genetics of pre- and post-zygotic reproductive isolation.
	Elizabeth Bohuski			Rebecca Randell: QTL mapping and population ecology to assess interactions between genetics and environment in Helianthus annuus.
	Tami Cruikshank: Evolution of maternal effect genes, rates of evolution, and non-additive genetic effects.			Kim Mauch Storvik: Development of a system to determine if natural isolates of E. coli are capable of Pol-IV dependent adaptive mutation.
	Amy McElhinney: The evolution and development of arms, in a sea urchin system.

Graduated IGERT Trainees

• Ingrid Anderson, PhD – Clinical Research Specialist, Sarah Cannon Research Institute, Nashville, TN
• David Angelini, PhD – Research Scientist,  University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
• Idelle Cooper, PhD – Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Wisconsin, WI
• Jeff Demuth, PhD – Assistant Professor of Biology, University of Texas, Arlington, TX
• Robert Eisman, PhD – Postdoctoral Fellow with Thom Kaufman at Indiana University 
• Briana Gross, PhD – NIH NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow with Kenneth M. Olsen at Washington University, St. Louis, MO
• Vaishali Katju, PhD – Assistant Professor of Bioinformatics, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
• Nolan Kane, PhD – Postdoctoral Fellow with Peter Humbert at The Peter MacCallum Cancer Research Centre, Melbourne, Australia
• Jeffrey Kauffman, PhD – Postdoctoral Fellow with Peter Humbert at The Peter MacCallum Cancer Research Centre, Melbourne, Australia
• Britt Koskella, PhD – NSF International Research Fellowship, Postdoctoral Fellow with Angus Buckling at Oxford, UK
• Paul Liu, PhD – Damon Runyon Postdoctoral Fellow with Nipam H. Patel at the University of California, Berkeley, CA
• Angela Omilian, PhD – Postdoctoral Fellow with Derek Taylor at SUNY, Buffalo, NY
• Han Ong, PhD – Asst. Professor, Lyon College, Batesville, Arkansa
• Jennifer Cianciolo Patterson, PhD
• Jennifer Raff, PhD – Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Utah
• Ben Ridenhour, PhD – Postdoctoral Fellow with Scott Nuismer at University of Idaho, Moscow, ID
• Sarah Schaack, PhD – Postdoctoral Fellow with Ellen Pritham at University of Texas, Arlington, TX
• Belinda Sly, PhD – Asst. Prof. of Biology, Transylvania University, Lexington, KY
• Troy Wood, PhD – Scientist, Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity, University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany
• Gregory Young, MA – Research Scientist, Dupont Crop Genetics, Wilmington, DE