Principal Investigators
Nathan Schoettler, MD, PhD
Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Instructor, Department of Medicine
Genetic and epigenetic responses of human lung resident immune cells to asthma promoting stimuli, and the contributions of these responses to lung-associated phenotypes.
Emma Thompson, PhD
Research Associate Professor
I am interested in the identification of genes contributing to airway hyperresponsiveness using integrated genetic, genomic, and physiologic approaches in airway smooth muscle cells.
Graduate Students
Charles Washington
Human Genetics
Identifying asthma risk variants through studies of gene-environment interactions and haplotype analyses
Ethan Zhong
Human Genetics
Using computational approaches to better understand genetic variations relevant to the onset and progression of human diseases, in particular those related to asthma
Undergraduate Students
Research Staff
Rebecca Anderson, MS
Genetic Counselor
Project Manager for the Prematurity Research Center; coordination of patient recruitment for asthma genetic studies; coordination of Hutterite field trips and phenotype databases; and carrier screening in the Hutterites
Christine Billstrand
Senior Research Staff
Tissue culture and placenta processing for the Prematurity Research Center
Gong 龚 Qing 清, MS
Biostatistician
Adriana Prichina
Research Specialist
William Wentworth-Sheilds, MS
Database Administrator