About
Positions
Director of Experimental Pathology Apr 1992 -
I run a research program in my own laboratory and provide administrative leadership and guidance to the insitution, the department and to individual faculty. I also serve as director of the Zebrafish Functional Genomics Core, and serve on the executive committees of my department, the MD/PhD program, and am a member of the Institute for Personalized Medicine.
My research program has included work on genomic instability and cancer, using the zebrafish as a model system, the genetics of human skin color, personalized medicine, web-based atlas resources for the zebrafish community, and now computational plhenomics, focusing on creating an infrastructure for high-throughput synchrotron microCT and analysis of microCT images.
I was founding co-director of the Penn State Bioinformatics and Genomics graduate program from 2005 to 2014.
Education
University of Washington 1987 - 1992
Field of study: Mechanisms of Mutation
Studied mechanisms of mutation in the laboratory of Lawrence A Loeb, including work on mutations caused by 8-hydroxyguanine, and set the stage for work on the genetics of cancer using the zebrafish.
University of Washington and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Institute 1982 - 1987
Field of study: Genetics
Degree: PhD
Recombinational hotspots in phage lambda and E. coli with Gerald R. Smith at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Institute
University of Washington 1981 - 1987
Field of study: Anatomic Pathology
Degree: Boards in Anatomic Pathology
My residency started in 1981, was interrupted by my PhD, and finished in 1987.
Brigham & Women's Hospital 1980 - 1981
Field of study: Anatomic Pathology
Did one year of residency in the department of Ramzi Cotran at what was Peter Bent Brigham Hospital (last year of residents to that program), and transferred to U Washington to pursue a research degree at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Institute in Seattle.
New York University School of Medicine 1976 - 1980
Field of study: Medicine
Degree: MD
Harvard College 1972 - 1976
Field of study: Biochemical Sciences
Degree: BA