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Ryan Thummel, Ph.D.

2022 - Graduate Program Director
2018 - Associate Professor, Anatomy and Cell Biology/Ophthalmology
2009 - 2018 Assistant Professor, Anatomy and Cell Biology/Ophthalmology
2007 - 2009 Research Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame
2004 - 2007 Post-doctoral Fellow, University of Notre Dame
May 2004 Ph.D., Developmental Genetics, University of Kansas Med. Ctr.
May 1998 B.A., Psychology, University of Notre Dame

Brief Bio on Teaching and Training Young Scientists:
I joined the faculty in the department of Ophthalmology, Visual and Anatomical Sciences (OVAS) at the School of Medicine in 2009. Since then I have devoted my time towards training and teaching our Wayne undergraduate, graduate, and medical students in the classroom and the laboratory. As an educator, I give lectures to our graduate students and M1 medical students, participate as a faculty mentor in the First Patient Project, and teach all 18 Histology labs (interacting with 150+ M1 students). In addition, I am the co-course director for the M1/M2 research elective and the course director for our MS/PhD seminar and professional development course in OVAS. I also serve as Faculty Advisor for two student organizations, the Graduate Program Director for the OVAS MS and PhD programs, as a member of the MD/PhD admissions committee, and as Chair for a NIH study section (F03A) that specifically reviews grant proposals from the next generation of young neuroscientists (i.e. the F Awards). In my laboratory, I have trained 38 undergraduate, graduate, and medical students, many of whom have published their original research findings from the lab, and all of whom have gone on to careers in medicine, academia, or healthcare-related fields.

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Previous Members of the Thummel Lab

Name

Zahira Malik (2022-2023)

Solen Tadesse (2021-2022)

Connor Cook (2020-2021)

Emily Fisher (2020-2021)

Justin Carthage (2020-2022)

Shivani Bongu (2020-2022)

Claire Simons (2019-2020)

Alex Cho (2019)

Ashley Kramer (2019-2023)

Sydney Hughes (Summer 2019)

Kenneth Elkin (2019)

Shreya Banerjee (2018-2022)

Brooke Turkalj (2018-2020)

Mazen Zamzam (2018-2019)

Nainjot Mann (2017-2019)

Lillian Ranspach (2017-2018)

Danielle Quallich (2017-2018)

Nicholas Ang (2016-2018)

Sangini Tolia (2016-2017)

Matt Rolain (Summer 2017)

Sarien Nassar (2015-2016)

Frank Mei (Summer 2016)

Kaylee Dolinski (2015-2016)

Harsha Murthy, B.S. (2015)

Alexandra Ranski (2014-2015)

Lauren Kaye (Summer 2015)

Gregory Morgan, M.S. (2012-2014)

Emma Gaboury (Summer 2014)

Chelsea Carver (Summer 2013, 2014)

Jennifer Thomas (2010-2014)

Thomas Carion (2012-2014)

Josh Kalisky (Summer 2013)

Alexis Steinmetz (2010-2012)

Allison Cross (Summer 2011)