Undergraduate Education

Student Publications

See What IGSP Undergrads are Publishing!

Students working in IGSP through Independent Study or enrolled in Genome courses have been successful in publishing their work. We are pleased to provide financial support for undergraduate student first-author publications in open access journals. If you are interested in requesting funding, please complete the "Publication Fees Funding Request Form" and submit to the Education Office for approval. Before submitting, please check with the library to be sure these fees are not waived or covered by current subscriptions. Please limit requests to one per student per academic year. Requests will be considered on a first come, first serve basis as funding permits. Below is a sampling of the publications authored by our undergraduates. If we somehow missed hearing about your publication, please contact jessica.crowley@duke.edu in the IGSP Education Office with the reference and we’ll be sure to post it.

Student Citation IGSP Affiliation
Brandon Ruderman '12 Uncoupling of genomic and epigenetic signals in the maintenance and inheritance of heterochromatin domains. Wheeler BS, Ruderman BT, Willard HF, Scott KC. Genetics [in press]. Independent Study
Jenae Logan '13 Allele-specific distribution of RNA polymerase II on female X chromosomes. Kucera KS, Reddy TE, Pauli F, Gertz J, Logan JE, Myers RM, Willard HF. Hum Mol Genet. 2011 Oct 15;20(20):3964-73. Independent Study
Priyanka Kanakamedala '10 Characterization of Clinical Study Populations by Race and Ethnicity in the Biomedical Literature. Kanakamedala P, Haga SB. Ethnicity & Disease [in press]. Program II Independent Study

Gene Eng '12

Annie Chen '12

 Genome technologies and personalized dental medicine.
Eng G, Chen A, Vess T, Ginsburg G. Oral Dis. 2011 Nov 8. doi: 10.1111/j.1601-0825.2011.01876.x.
 Independent Study
Marissa Zarco '11 The oral microbiome in health and disease and the potential impact on personalized dental medicine.
Zarco M, Vess T, Ginsburg G. Oral Dis. 2011 Aug 11. doi: 10.1111/j.1601-0825.2011.01851.x. 		Independent Study

Joyce Kim '11

Danny Mammo '11

Marni Siegel '11

 Policy implications for familial searching.
Kim J, Mammo D, Siegel MB, Katsanis SH. Investig Genet. 2011 Nov 1;2(1):22.		 GENOME 198S Genome Sciences & Policy Capstone
Jessica Baron '10 The National Dental Research Act of 1948: A Bill that Transformed Dentistry.
Baron J. American Student Dental Association (ASDA) Monthly. 2010 Dec. 		GENOME 138S/PUBPOL 133S Scientists in Public Policy
Swathi Padmanabhan '10 Intellectual property, technology transfer and manufacture of low-cost HPV vaccines in India.
Padmanabhan S, Amin T, Sampat B, Cook-Deegan R, Chandrasekharan S. Nat Biotechnol. 2010 Jul;28(7):671-8.		 Senior Thesis
Katie Skeehan '08 Impact of gene patents and licensing practices on access to genetic testing for Alzheimer disease.
Skeehan K, Heaney C, Cook-Deegan R. Genet Med. 2010 Apr;12(4 Suppl):S71-82.		 GELP Internship
Jared Blau '10 The impact of local genome sequence on defining heterochromatin domains.
Wheeler BS, Blau JA, Willard HF, Scott KC. PLoS Genet. 2009 Apr;5(4):e1000453. Epub 2009 Apr 10.		 Independent Study
Joseph Fore '07 The effects of business practices, licensing, and intellectual property on development and dissemination of the polymerase chain reaction: case study.
Fore J Jr, Wiechers IR, Cook-Deegan R. J Biomed Discov Collab. 2006 Jul 3;1:7.		 HHMI Summer Fellow
Daidree Tofano '06 Edwin Southern, DNA blotting, and microarray technology: a case study of the shifting role of patents in academic molecular biology.
Tofano D, Wiechers IR, Cook-Deegan R. Genomics, Society and Policy. 2(2): 50-61. 2006. 		HHMI Summer Fellow