As a genomicist and behavioral ecologist, my research focuses on the intersection between genetic diversity and fitness across environmental variation. I am also passionately committed to Science Education Research and to increasing diversity and inclusion in STEM.
I am currently an NIH-funded postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. George (PJ) Perry at Pennsylvania State University. Here, I am using functional genomics techniques to study baseline and growth hormone-induced changes in genome-wide methylation profile between human populations with different height and growth phenotypes: the Batwa rainforest hunter-gatherers and the neighboring Bakiga agriculturalists from Southwest Uganda. See my Research Page for more information!
Previously (2014-2017), I was a FIRST postdoctoral fellow at Emory University in the lab of Dr. Donna Maney. and a PhD student mentored by Dr. Christine Drea at Duke University.
Contact Information
Email: kathleen.e.grogan@gmail.com
Twitter: @Dr_KatieG1
Office: 516 Carpenter Building
Fortunate are those who have learned to see, in the wild things of nature, something to be loved, something to be wondered at, something to be reverenced, for they will have found the key to a never-failing source of recreation and refreshment. - Hugh B. Cott
If you want to know more about me, read this profile by The Female Scientist or this one on Sully Asks a Scientist!