MGM - McIntyre Lab
University of Florida
The McIntyre Team

Openings | Prior members

Principal Investigator

Lauren McIntyre Lauren McIntyre
Associate Professor
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
University of Florida
352-273-8024
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Scientific Research Manager

Alison Morse
Scientific Research Manager
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Alison is the newest member to Lauren's lab. As the lab's resident biochemical geneticist, Alison applies genomics-based approaches to elucidate the biochemical pathways that regulated phenotypes. She is working on linking statistical methods to biochemical knowledge and is currently involved in the NSF funded project entitled 'Functional Genomics of Transfer Cells'.

 

Post Doctoral Associates

Marina Telonis-Scott

Rita Graze
Post Doctoral Fellow
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Rita is a post doc currently working on assaying allele-specific expression variation within and between species using both microarray and deep sequencing. She is interested in the evolution of regulatory systems underlying species differences in quantitative traits and the role of regulatory divergence in interspecific epistasis.

Marina Telonis-Scott

Rob Kulathinal
Post Doctoral Fellow
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Rob is currently a postdoctoral research fellow working in the McIntyre and Barbazuk (Department of Biology) labs. Rob's interests lie in understanding the evolutionary processes evolved in speciation. Rob uses both population and comparative genomic approaches to identify signatures of selection on early species formation

 

Staff

Victor Amin
IT Specialist

Victor is a programmer with experience building applications for the web. He will be working with Lauren and others in the department to develop bioinformatics processing pipelines, project management solutions, and other tools.

Brandon Walts

Brandon Walts
Bioinformatics Specialist
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Brandon is senior software engineer with over ten years of experience in software engineering and data management for bioinformatics. In addition to working with Lauren, Brandon works on projects with Dr. Riva.

Randi Wheeler

Randi Wheeler
Lab Manager

Randi helps with prossessing Lauren's proposals for research funding. She also tracks spending and reconciles all expenses incurred by Lauren and the McIntyre lab. Randi is also the lab webmaster.

 

Graduate Students

Yajie

Yajie Yang
Graduate Student
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