| Appointments | Student | Photo | Project Description | Mentor |
| September 2024 – August 2025 |
Nicholas Legere |  |
Using custom mouse models to investigate the molecular mechanisms of heart failure and leveraging these findings to improve heart function in response to cardiovascular stress. | J. Travis Hinson |
| September 2024 – August 2025 | Anna Struba |  |
Studying mRNA regulation during the maternal-to-zygotic transition, and how 3’UTR content can influence mRNA translation and stability during this transition. | Jean-Denis Beaudoin |
| September 2024 – August 2025 | Isha Walawalkar |  |
Deciphering how poison exons regulate alternative splicing in pluripotency and early embryonic development. | Olga Anczuków |
| November 2023 – October 2025 |
Bethlehem (Betty) Abebe |  |
Biochemical, genomic, and structural analysis on protein complexes involved in cytokinesis in both Fission Yeast and mice to better understand the implications on health and disease. | Steven Z. Chou |
| September 2023 – August 2025 | Cullen Clairmont |  |
Modeling intracranial germ cell tumors with primordial germ cells derived from genetically engineered human stem cells | Ching Lau |
| September 2023 – August 2025 | Rachael Massey |  |
Studying how females inactivate one of their X chromosomes (XCI), how some genes escape XCI, and how these genes contribute to sex differences and sex chromosomal disorders. | Stefan Pinter |
| September 2022 – August 2024 | Mian Horvath |  |
Factors that affect elderly health and gain new research tools that will aid me in conducting research to reduce disease burden among the elderly. | Julia Oh |
| September 2022 – May 2023
Left the Program |
Billy Joe Huggins |  |
Investigating the molecular mechanisms that govern aging. | Blanka Rogina |
| September 2022 – August 2024 | Christopher Pathoulas |  |
Studying the genetic basis of diseases in an effort to develop therapeutic strategies that can exploit genotypic differences. | Patrick Murphy |
| November 2021 - October 2023 | Elizabeth Szabo |  |
Using CRISPR gene editing to model patient-derived MSH6 germline variants in human embryonic stem cells (hESCs). | Christopher Heinen |
| September 2021 - August 2023 | Eden Francoeur |  |
The extent and impact of intra-species structural variation in complex repeat loci. | Christine Beck |
| September 2021 - August 2023 | Monica Dave |  |
The role of senescent genetic signatures in early placental development. | Paul Robson |
| August 2020 - July 2022
Ph.D. requirements completed March 2023 |
Rachel Cohn |  |
Transcriptomic signatures of senescent cells | Laura Haynes |
| August 2020 - July 2022
Graduated with Ph.D. December 2023 Current position: Assistant Computational Scientist at JAX, Farmington, CT |
Ardian Ferraj |  |
Detection and effects of structural variation and polymorphic transposable element insertions in diverse mouse genomes. | Christine Beck |
| August 2020 - July 2022
Graduated with Ph.D. June 2023 Dr. Gilmore has accepted a position as a Post-doctoral researcher at Heidelberg University Germany |
Rachel Gilmore |  |
Investigating the multifaceted role of chromosome 15q11-q13 in Prader-Willi syndrome | Justin Cotney |