Wade L. Schulz

Year Entered: 2006

Degrees Received:
B.S.,  Genetics/Microbiology, University of Minnesota, 2006

Honors and Awards:
University of Minnesota Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, 2005
American Society for Microbiology Undergraduate Research Fellowship, 2005
Best Undergraduate Poster, ASM North Central Branch Meeting, 2004
University of Minnesota Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, 2004

Thesis Advisor: Not determined

Thesis Research: Not determined

Research Interests:
Wade received his degrees in Genetics and Microbiology from the University of Minnesota in 2006. His undergraduate research, in the lab of Dr. Patty Tam, focused on RNA secondary structure prediction and enzymatic verification. The main focus of the research was to create a new, non-radioactive method to determine RNA secondary structure and use the method to determine the structure of the 5' untranslated region of Coxsackievirus B1.

Wade's current research interests are in virology and bioinformatics. After completing the first two years of medical school, he is hoping to do his doctoral work in the Department of Microbiology.

Publications: (prior to PhD phase of program)

Sandager MM, Nugent JL, Schulz WL, Messner RP, Tam PE. Interactions between multiple genetic determinants in the 5' UTR and VP1 capsid control pathogenesis of chronic post-viral myopathy caused by coxsackievirus B1. Virology 2007; [Epub ahead of print].