Stephen Plassmeyer

Program: Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

Current advisor: Alex Holehouse, PhD

Undergraduate university: Truman State University, 2018

Enrollment year: 2021

Research summary

Graduate publications
Plassmeyer SP, Florian CP, Chase R, Kasper MJ, Mueller S, Liu Y, McFarland White K, Sierra-Cortez L, Fischer AD, Jungers CF, Djuranovic SP, Djuranovic S, Dougherty JD. 2025 Approaches for identification of 5′ UTR mutations impacting translation and protein production from neurodevelopmental disorder genes. Cell Rep Methods, 5(12)::101247. PMCID:

Lagunas T Jr, Plassmeyer SP, Fischer AD, Friedman RZ, Rieger MA, Selmanovic D, Sarafinovska S, Sol YK, Kasper MJ, Fass SB, Aguilar Lucero AF, An JY, Sanders SJ, Cohen BA, Dougherty JD. 2023 A Cre-dependent massively parallel reporter assay allows for cell-type specific assessment of the functional effects of non-coding elements in vivo. Commun Biol, 6(1):1151. PMCID: PMC10641075