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Julia Halo, Ph.D., Principal Investigator

Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences

Research Interests: I am interested in the influence of various types of retroelements have on large- and small-scale genomic structural variation, the study of host-virus evolution using paleogenomics of ERVs in vertebrates, and the mechanisms of and biological impact of continued transposable element mobility in vertebrate genomes.

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GRADUATE STUDENTS

Masters’ Students

Molly Buffenbarger (BGSU ’25)

 Research Interests: Sequence variation and promoter functions of LTRs

Victoria Cintron (Miami U of Ohio, ’20)

 Research Interests: ERVs of wild canids

Colleen Palicka (Bradley U, ’20)

 Research Interests: Env functions

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Undergraduate Students

Alana Voglewede (BGSU ’26)

  Research Interests: ERVs in wild canids

Taylor Whiting (BGSU ’27)

 Research Interests: ERV variation in prevalence

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High School Visiting Students

Julia Barnett (BGSU H.S. ’26)

 Research Interests: LTR functions

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Past Lab Members and Students

Abby Grady (BGSU ’23; M.S. ’25)

In Cell and Molecular Ph.D. program at Boston College

Lucy Nomaguchi (BGSU H.S., ’25; Harvard University)

 

Savanna Spitnale (ONU ’22; M.S. ’24)

Abigail Jarosz, Ph.D. (BGSU ’16; M.S. ’18; Ph.D. ’23)

 Presently: Assistant Professor, Biology, Lorain County Community College

Aaron Deutsch (BGSU ’25)

Genny Pyles (BGSU)

Sarah Pavuk (BGSU ’23)

Emily McKeen (BGSU ’23)

 

Savanna Spitnale (ONU, ’22)

 Visiting undergraduate from Ohio Northern University, 2021 Summer Capstone Project

Baileigh Laipply (BGSU ’21) … with Dunkin:) 

Currently: Medical School 

Lindsey Davis (BGSU ’20) 

Clemson Program in Animal and Veterinary Sciences

Jordyn Hutchison (BGSU ’18, M.S. ’20)

Malika Day, BGSU ’19

Graduated Medical School

Tracy Chung, Yale University (Visiting Summer Student ’16) 

 

Erica Cech, B.S. BGSU ’19

Dietetics Nutrition M.S., Wayne State

Zach Jacoby (BGSU ’19)

Ophthalmology, Ohio State University

Ben A. Sayer (BGSU ’20) 

 

Carollynn Judge (BGSU ’20) … with Wilson:)

Kyle Hallowell (BGSU ’22)

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Mascots

BOSON (like the Higgs)

BELLA BRUISER & BRUTUS

 

Honorary Mascots

  Sammy 

 Larry, Moe, and Curly  Tig

Zoey and Molly