People

Ann Griffen

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Dr. Ann Griffen received her dental and pediatric dental training at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston, and her molecular genetics training at Ohio State. She is currently Professor and Director of Research in the Section of Pediatric Dentistry.

Gene Leys

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Dr. Eugene Leys is a professor in the Division of Biosciences. He did his graduate work at Baylor College of Medicine and his postdoctoral work at the Carnegie Institute at Johns Hopkins.

Clifford Beall

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Clifford Cliff Beall is a Research Associate Professor in the Division of Biosciences, OSU College of Dentistry. He received his BS in Biology from the California Institute of Technology, a PhD in Biological Chemistry from Harvard University, and an MSc in Intelligent Systems from the University of Sussex (UK). He has been working with Dr. Leys and Dr. Griffen since December 2009, managing bioinformatics and data analysis for the group.

Christina Igboin

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Christina graduated from The Ohio State University in March 2000, with a degree in Microbiology. She began working in the lab as a research assistant a few months later, and her research involved characterizing strains of Tannerella forsythia and using q-PCR to determine the levels of Porphyromonas gingivalis, in clinical samples. She began graduate school at OSU College of Medicine in 2002, and her thesis projects included microarray-based comparisons of clinically prevalent P. gingivalis strains, and developing Drosophila melanogaster as a model for examining oral bacterial-host interactions. She received her PhD in Integrated Biomedical Science (Microbial Pathogenesis) in 2008. Christina’s current research focuses on using the Drosophila model to identify virulence-enhancing and virulence-ameliorating interactions between oral species, and examining oral microbe-microbe and microbes-host interactions at the transcriptomic level.