Evolutionary and Developmental Genetics

Kenneth M. Weiss
Evan Pugh Professor of Biological Anthropology and Genetics
{the 'boss' (i.e., does no actual work)}
Email: KenWeiss@psu.edu
Office: 523 Carpenter Building
Phone: (814) 865-0989

Anne Buchanan
Senior Research Associate
{Epidemiology, evolutionary biology & genetics}
Email: abw1@psu.edu
Office: 515 Carpenter Building
Phone: (814) 865-1586

Kazuhiko Kawasaki
Senior Research Associate
{Developmental genetics, dental patterning, SCPP biomineralization gene family evolution--and pufferfish, eel, lamprey (and wine expert in spare time)}
Email: kuk2@psu.edu
Office: 511 Carpenter Building, and his phone 814 863 0032

Samuel J. Sholtis, Recent Graduate Student
{Developmental genetics & EvoDevo, dental patterning}
Sam is now a post-doc with Jim Noonan at Yale Medical School

He can be reached at: samuel.sholtis@yale.edu

Heather Lawson, Recent graduate student

{Primate bioinformatics/genomics, craniofacial EvoDevo}
Heather is now a post-doc with Jim Cheverud at Washington University Medical School

She can be reached at: lawsonh@pcg.wustl.edu

Jen Wagner. Jen is a graduate student and also a licensed lawyer. She has her law degree from UNC Law School, and is her to work on a PhD in legal aspects of human rights and other issues related to genetic ancestry testing. She is working with my group and Mark Shriver's here in Anthropology, and with Chloe Silverman and Jonathan Marks in our Science, Technology, and Society Program.

Reach Jen at: jennifer.kristin.wagner@gmail.com

Brian Lambert
Programming/developer/modeler
Computer sciences, responsible for {ForSim system (see Research page)

His office is 520 Carpenter Building, phone 814 863 0032
Email: brian.w.lambert@gmail.com

Nathaniel Cannon is a graduate student working towards his PhD in Genomics/Bioinformatics. He has his undergraduate degree from BYU in Utah, as well as a Master's degree in Biostatistics. His interests are in the genetic basis of complex traits and how we infer that basis. His office is 519 Carpenter Bldg, phone 814 865 9643, email nsc129@psu.edu

Sue Rutherford is a Research Associate who will be joining the laboratory group in the Department. She comes newly from the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research. Her work is on the genetics of cardiovascular disease. She studies genetic variation and its association with phenotypes in various populations, including Mexican-Americans. Sue's office is 519 Carpenter, phone 814-865-9643, email srs40@psu.edu