People


Principal Investigator: Karen M. Downs

Research Associate: Jacalyn McHugh

Graduate Students:

Undergraduate Students: Elissa Hellman

 

Karen M. Downs PI kdowns@facstaff.wisc.edu

Ph.D. 1984 University of Illinois, Chicago

Research and Professional Experience

Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, San Francisco (Dr. J. M. Bishop), Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Oxford, England (Drs. R.S.P. Beddington and R. L. Gardner); EMBO, The British Council Visiting Fellow, The Hubrecht Laboratory, Utrecht, The Netherlands (Dr. Kirstie Lawson)

Present Position: Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical School

 

Title of Research Program: "Potency and differentiation during murine placentation"

Program Affiliations

1994 - Cell and Molecular Biology Training Program

1996- Endocrinology and Reproductive Physiology Training Program

1998- Developmental Biology Training Program

1998- Cardiovascular Research Center

1998- Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

1999- Environmental Toxicology

1999- UW Comprehensive Cancer Center--Experimental Therapeutics