Craig Smail, PhD

Craig is a Group Leader at the Genomic Medicine Center, Children's Mercy Hospital and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Missouri - Kansas City (UMKC) School of Medicine, with a secondary appointment at Kansas University School of Medicine. Craig completed a BA/MA degree at the University of Edinburgh and a PhD in Biomedical Informatics at Stanford University in the lab of Dr. Stephen Montgomery. 

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Marissa Keever-Keigher, PhD

Marissa is a Bioinformatics Scientist in the lab. She received her Bachelor's degree from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in Integrative Biology. She also completed her Master’s and PhD at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in Animal Sciences with a focus in bioinformatics and genomics. She is interested in the application of systems biology approaches to gain insight into the effects of non-coding variants on the transcriptome, as well as rare diseases with digenic and polygenic origins.

Cas LeMaster, MS

Cas is a Bioinformatics Scientist in the lab. He received his Bachelor's degree from the University of Kansas in Neurobiology. He also completed his Master’s at the University of Maryland with a focus in Bioinformatics. He is interested in rare variant associations, single-cell transcriptomics and multiomics.