Emma Young
Research Interests
Genetics and genomics, genotype-phenotype associations, environmental adaptations, metabolism and disease.
Publications
Papers: “The Ubiquitin-Specific Protease USP36 SUMOylates EXOSC10 and promotes the
nucleolar RNA exosome function in rRNA processing” Fourth authorship. NAR 2023
Posters: “eQTL analysis of cold adaptation regulation in Peruvian Quechua populations”
accepted for the 2024 American Association of Biological Anthropology 2024 •“TDP-43 protein
dysregulation in regards to ALS” NIAMS Three Minute Talk Competition 2022 •“Developing
Surface-CLIP”.NIH post-baccalaureate poster competition 2021
Awards & Grants
NSF-GRFP Fellow 2024
Genomic Analysis Training Program Fellow 2024
Departmental Honors in Anthropology 2020
Earned for completion of my Senior Honors Thesis “Exploratory Look at Effective Population
Among the Unangax Using a Bayesian Skyline Model” at the University of Kansas.
Advisor: Jennifer Raff
Dennis R. and Nancy E. Dahl Award 2019
Carroll D. Clark Fund Award 2019
United States Army Medical Research and Materiel Command and Fort Detrick Volunteer
Award for the National Museum of Health and Medicine 2018
