Graduate Students

Current Graduate Students

Kristi Russell

PhD Candidate

Cecile Avery

PhD Candidate

I am interested in complex disease genetics- particularly the genetics of Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA). I utilize various computational tools to analyze rare coding and non-coding variants and  structural variants to better understand the pathophysiology of JIA. Additionally, collaboration with physicians of the University of Utah Children’s Hospital enable family studies and the assembly of large cohorts to further empower existing computational techniques and our ability to understand this polygenic disease.

Jerry Duran

Graduate Student

Melissa Bujnis

Graduate Student