Craig Lowe, PhD
Assistant Professor, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology

Craig Lowe is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology.  His research interests are understanding how traits and characteristics of humans and other vertebrates are encoded in their genomes.  He is especially focused on adaptations and disease susceptibilities that are unique to humans.  Craig uses both computational and experimental approaches to address these questions.  Craig’s recent research has been on differences in how genes are regulated between species or individuals within a species and how this causes traits to differ.  All students in Craig’s lab are exposed to an interdisciplinary environment; current lab members have backgrounds in mathematics, computer science, neuroscience, developmental biology, and genetics.  Each year Craig teaches one or two courses on rotating topics of ancient DNA, ethical issues in genomics, and software development for genetic analyses.

Dr. Lowe was awarded the Ann B. Bussel Research Award for his project “Regions of the Human Genome that Extend our Dementia-Free Survival.”