Maria Pia Rogines Velo-Sardi(2002)
Pia joined the Engle lab as a postdoctoral fellow in early 2002, following the completion of her PhD in Professor Rothlin's laboratory in the Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, University of Buenos Aires. She is studying human expression of the CFEOM1 and CFEOM2 disease genes, KIF21A and PHOX2A.
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Jann-Frederik Grunert (2005)
Jann joined the lab from August-September 2005 as a fifth year medical student
from the Witten/Herdecke University (Germany) and Maastricht
University (The Netherlands). He performed mutation screening on a
candidate gene in the DURS1 region using dHPLC and sequence analysis. He was also involved in the verification of nucleotide changes in the PHOX2A gene. After his return to Germany, he will be finishing his medical studies at the Witten/Herdecke University and working as a doctoral fellow at the Department of Human Genetics at the University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany).
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Carlos Miranda 2002-2005
Carlos Miranda joined the Engle lab as a postdoctoral research fellow in November 2002. Carlos was born in Portugal where he obtained a Masters degree in Human Molecular Genetics (Porto University) and then in 1998, Carlos went to Montreal, Canada, to undertake a PhD program. In the Engle lab Carlos was responsible for developing molecular biology tools to study CFEOM1. Carlos and his family moved to Columbus, Ohio in August 2005 where he is undertaking a second PostDoctoral Fellowship.
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Koki Yamada 2001-2004
Koki Yamada, M.D., Ph.D., joined the Engle lab as a postdoctoral research
fellow in July 2001. Whilst with the Engle lab, Koki identified the gene,
KIF21A as being causative in CFEOM1 and began work on a yeast two hybrid
assay to examine proteins that interact with the KIF21A protein. He
returned to Japan in December 2004 to take up the position of Assistant
Professor at Nagasaki University.
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Krystal Law (2001-2004)
Krystal Law joined the Engle lab in the summer of 2001 during her undergraduate studies at Harvard. She conducted a genome wide screen to map the genetic location of a new congenital fibrosis syndrome in her first two summers. In 2003 and 2004 Krystal chose to undertake her final year undergraduate thesis work in the Engle Lab and screened several candidate genes by sequencing within the DURS2 locus on Chromosome 2, where one of the disease genes associated with Duane syndrome is positioned. Krystal is now working as a Research Technician in the Greenberg Neurobiology Laboratory at Children's Hospital Boston with Dr Anne West as her mentor.
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Cynthia St. Hilaire (2001-2003)
Cynthia St. Hilaire came to the Engle lab as a Research Technician in June 2001, just after graduating from the University of Vermont with a degree in Molecular Genetics. Cindy spent two years in the Engle lab and assisted in identification of the first Duane syndrome gene, SALL4 (mutated in Duane syndrome with radial ray anomalies). Following identification of this gene, Cindy took over Derek's work identifying the congenital ptosis (PTOS1) gene. Cindy is now undertaking a PhD at Boston University.
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Derek Southwell (2001-2002)
Derek spent a year in the lab working as a Research Technician following completion of his undergraduate studies at MIT. He spent his time in the lab screening candidate genes within the PTOS1 region on chromosome 1 in an attempt to identify this congenital ptosis disease gene. Derek is now undertaking a combined MD-PhD program.
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| 2000-2001 group picture of the Engle lab, with (left to right) Raidah, Elizabeth, Jennifer, Nathalie, and Motoi. |
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Jennifer Fain (2000-2001)
Jennifer spent a year in the laboratory as a research technician. She performed linkage analysis studies of new families and sequence analysis of candidate CFEOM1 genes. Jennifer is now a medical student at Yale University
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Raidah Al-Baradie, M.D (2000-2001)
Following the completion of her training in Child Neurology at Children's, Raidah spent a year in the lab as a postdoctoral research fellow. She conducted a genome-wide screen to identify the genetic locus for a variant of Duane syndrome and following on from this work, SALL4 was identified as disease causing Okihiro syndrome (Duane syndrome with radial ray anomalies).
She has now returned to Saudi Arabia and works at the King Fahad Hospital as an Assistant Professor in Pediatric Neurology and Epilepsy.
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Motoi Nakano, M.D., Ph. D. (1998-2001)
Motoi is a geneticist and plastic surgeon, and spent three years in the lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Motoi constructed the BAC map of the CFEOM2 disease gene region on chromosome 11 and then went on to identify the CFEOM2 disease gene, ARIX. His work represents the first monogenic strabismus gene to be identified, as well as the first of the congenital fibrosis genes identified. Motoi is now working at the Oita Nakamura Hospital in Japan.
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Nathalie McIntosh (1999-2001)
Nathalie spent two years as the lab's genetic counselor. She coordinated all of our family studies and correspondence with study participants and collaborators. Nathalie is now co-director of the Brandeis University Genetic Counseling Program.
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Bjorn A. Lee, A.B. (1998-2000)
Bjorn spent two years as a technician in the lab following his graduation from Bowdoin College. He did the lab's linkage analysis as well as physical mapping and developing new markers within the CFEOM1 locus. Bjorn then went to the University of Pennsylvania to study veterinary science and is now working as a small animal Veterinarian in Camden, Maine.
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Carrie Decato (1998)
Carrie was an undergraduate volunteer in the Engle lab during the summer between her junior and senior years at Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont. She is now a student at the College of Osteopathic Medicine, University of Health Sciences, Kansas City, MO.
Sarah Ferrari (1997)
Sarah volunteered in the Engle lab during the summer between her junior and senior years at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York.
Margaret Macy (1996-1998)
Meg spent time as both a volunteer and as a technician in the Engle lab. She volunteered during the summer between her junior and senior years at Middlebury College. She then returned after graduation to work for a year as a technician. She worked primarily on the genetic refinement of the congenital ptosis locus. She then studied medicine at Case Western Reserve in Cleveland, Ohio.
Susan M. Wang (1996-1998)
Susan spent two years as a technician in the lab following her graduation from Connecticut College in New London, Conneticut. She worked primarily on CFEOM2, and mapped this disorder to the FEOM2 locus on chromosome 11. She is now an osteopathic medical student at NYCOM on Long Island, New York.
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Adrian Castro (1995-1996)
Adrian mapped the congenital ptosis gene to the PTOS1 locus on chromosome 1 as an undergraduate research project in the lab during his senior year at Harvard University. Following graduation, he worked as a Biology and Advanced Placement biology high school teacher at John Muir High School in Pasadena, California. He worked for 2 years doing adoptive T-cell immunotherapy research with
Dr. Laurence Cooper at City of Hope in Duarte. He has just (2004) begun his
first year at USC Keck School of Medicine and hopes to specialize in
pediatrics.
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