Education:
University at Buffalo -SUNY
Biotechnology and Chemistry majors, French minor
B.A./B.S., 2015
University of Minnesota
Biochemsitry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics Graduate Program
Ph.D., 2022
MSTP Student Governance:
- Student Advisory Committee, 2020-22
- Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee, 2020-22
Thesis Advisor: Anja Bielinsky, Ph.D.
Thesis Research
Role of replication initiation factors in natural killer cell deficiency.
Publications
Schmit M, Bielinsky AK. Congenital Diseases of DNA Replication: Clinical Phenotypes and Molecular Mechanisms. Int J Mol Sci. 2021 Jan 18;22(2):911. PMCID: PMC781139
Baxley RM, Leung W, Schmit MM, Matson JP, Yin L, Oram MK, Wang L, Taylor J, Hedberg J, Rogers CB, Harvey AJ, Basu D, Taylor JC, Pagnamenta AT, Dreau H, Craft J, Ormondroyd E, Watkins H, Hendrickson EA, Mace EM, Orange JS, Aihara H, Stewart GS, Blair E, Cook JG, Bielinsky AK. Bi-allelic MCM10 variants associated with immune dysfunction and cardiomyopathy cause telomere shortening. Nat Commun. 2021 Mar 12;12(1):1626. PMCID: PMC7955084
Mace EM, Paust S, Conte MI, Baxley RM, Schmit MM, Patil SL, Guilz NC, Mukherjee M, Pezzi AE, Chmielowiec J, Tatineni S, Chinn IK, Akdemir ZC, Jhangiani SN, Muzny DM, Stray-Pedersen A, Bradley RE, Moody M, Connor PP, Heaps AG, Steward C, Banerjee PP, Gibbs RA, Borowiak M, Lupski JR, Jolles S, Bielinsky AK, Orange JS. Human NK cell deficiency as a result of biallelic mutations in MCM10. J Clin Invest. 2020 Oct 1;130(10):5272-5286. PMCID: PMC7524476
