Emily Coonrod

Program: Human and Statistical Genetics

Current advisor: Christopher Maher, PhD

Undergraduate university: University of Missouri-Columbia, 2018

Enrollment year: 2018

Research summary
Exploring the role of long non-coding RNA in cancer progression and detection

I am exploring the role of long non-coding RNA in cancer progression and detection.

Graduate publications
Dang HX, Saha D, Jayasinghe R, Zhao S, Coonrod E, Mudd J, Goedegebuure SP, Fields R, Ding L, Maher CA. 2023 Single-cell transcriptomics reveals long noncoding RNAs associated with tumor biology and the microenvironment in pancreatic cancer. NAR Cancer, 5(4)::zcad055. PMCID: PMC10664695

Othoum G, Coonrod E, Zhao S, Dang HX, Maher CA. 2020 Pan-cancer proteogenomic analysis reveals long and circular noncoding RNAs encoding peptides. NAR Cancer, 2(3):zcaa015. PMCID: PMC7418880