Current Graduate Students:

• Tom O'Hare, Ph.D. student, Genetics. Dissertation topic: Role of telomerase-telomere pathway in Marek’s disease pathogenesis.
• Beth Robb, Ph.D. student, Genetics. Dissertation topic: Regulation of telomerase genes in normal and transformed cells.
• Charmaine Robinson, Ph.D. student, Genetics. Dissertation topic : Role of viral chromosomal integration in Marek’s disease pathology and oncogenesis.
• Andrew Webb, M.S. student, Genetics. Thesis topic: Candidate gene analysis in developmental mutants

Current Staff:

• Andrew Jiang, Junior Specialist

Former Staff:

• Laura Daniels, Staff Research Associate II.
• Terri Gessaro, Lab Assistant II
• Lisa Goldberg, Junior Specialist II
• Charmaine Robinson, Staff Research Associate II

Former Graduate Students:

• Hong Chang, Ph.D. Genetics, 2007. Dissertation: Alternative Splicing Variation of Chicken Telomerase Reverse Transcriptase.
• Cyndie Gitter, M.S. Avian Sciences, 2006. Thesis: Genetic Mapping of Seven Developmental Mutations Found in the Domestic Chicken (Gallus gallus) by Analysis of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms.
• Tom O'Hare, M.S., Animal Science, 2005. Thesis: Analysis of telomerase gene expression during normal growth and development of the chicken using quantitative real-time PCR.
• Susan Swanberg,   Ph.D., Genetics, 2005. Dissertation: Telomere length regulation in an avian model.
• Kandi Rodrigue, M.S., Animal Biology, 2004. Thesis: Inheritance of ultra-long chicken telomere arrays in a highly inbred chicken line and mapping of an array to the W-chrmosome
• Manolis Spanakos, M.S., Animal Science, 2003. Thesis: Expression of MHC genes during chicken embryo development.
• Robin Keister, M.S., Avian Sciences, 2002. Research topic: Early embryonic MHC expression in the chicken..
• Laura Daniels, M.S., Genetics, 2001. Thesis: Molecular Analysis of the 5s rDNA Array in Chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus)
• Heather Taylor, M.S., Animal Science, 2000.  Thesis: Ontology of telomerase in chicken: Impact of down-regulation on pre-and postnatal telomere length in vivo.
• Volkan Gurel, M.S., Avian Sciences, 1998. Research topic: Nucleogenesis in primary and metastatic tumors induced by v-src.
• Min Su, M.S., Genetics, 1997. Thesis: Ribosomal gene copy numbers in directionally-selected grandparent lines of commercial chickens.