Faculty Bio

Danielle Hamill

Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences

Education

• B.A., Lawrence University
• Ph.D., University of Kansas

About

Danielle Hamill teaches courses in cell biology, genetics, and animal development. Her research interests include regulation of cell division and developmental processes. For these studies, the Hamill lab uses roundworms, including Caenorhabditis elegans. As these processes are highly conserved, what they learn from studying cell division and development in worms will likely provide a better understanding of these important processes in other organisms as well. Hamill also serves as the pre-physical therapy advisor.

Areas of Interest / Expertise

• Cell biology
• Cell division and cancer
• Genetics
• Biological development
  

Selected Publications (*mentored undergraduate student)

• Julie A. Merkle, Olivier Devergne, Seth M. Kelly, Paula A. Croonquist, Cory J. Evans, Melanie A. Hwalek, Victoria L. Straub, Danielle R. Hamill, David P. Puthoff, Kenneth J. Saville, Jamie L. Siders, Zully J. Villanueva Gonzalez, Jackie K. Wittke-Thompson, Kayla L. Bieser, Joyce Stamm, Alysia D. Vrailas-Mortimer, Jacob Kagey (2023). Fly-CURE, a Multi-Institutional CURE using Drosophila, Increases Students' Confidence, Sense of Belonging, and Persistence in Research. Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education, vol 24(3): e00245-22. https://doi.org/10.1128/jmbe.00245-22

• Mast E, Bieser KL, Abraham-Villa M, Adams V, Akinlehin AJ, Aquino LZ, Austin JL, Austin AK, Beckham CN, Bengson EJ, Bieszk A, Bogard BL, Brennan RC, Brnot RM, Cirone NJ, Clark MR, Cooper BN, Cruz D, Daprizio KA, DeBoe J, Dencker MM, Donnelly LL, Driscoll L, DuBeau RJ, Durso SW, Ejub A, Elgosbi W, Estrada M, *Evins K, Fox PD, France JM, Franco Hernandez MG, Garcia LA, Garl O, Gorsuch MR, Gorzeman-Mohr MA, *Grothouse ME, Gubbels ME, Hakemiamjad R, Harvey CV, Hoeppner MA, Ivanov JL, Johnson VM, Johnson JL, Johnson A, Johnston K, Keller KR, Kennedy BT, *Killian LR, Klumb M, Koehn OL, Koym AS, Kress KJ, Landis RE, Lewis KN, Lim E, Lopez IK, Lowe D, Luengo Carretero P, Lunaburg G, Mallinder SL, Marshall NA, Mathew J, Mathew J, Mcmanaway HS, Meegan EN, Meyst JD, Miller MJ, Minogue CK, Mohr AA, Moran CI, *Moran A, Morris MD, Morrison MD, Moses EA, Mullins CJ, Neri CI, *Nichols JM, Nickels BR, Okai AM, Okonmah C, Paramo M, Paramo M, Parker SL, Parmar NK, Paschal J, Patel P, Patel D, *Perkins EB, *Perry MM, Perry Z, Pollock AA, Portalatin O, Proffitt KS, Queen JT, Quemeneur AC, *Richardson AG, Rosenberger K, Rutherford AM, Santos-Perez IX, Sarti CY, Schouweiler LJ, Sessing LM, Setaro SO, Silvestri CF, *Smith OA, Smith MJ, Sumner JC, Sutton RR, Sweckard L, Talbott NB, Traxler PA, Truesdell J, Valenti AF, Verace L, Vijayakumar P, Wadley WL, *Walter KE, Williams AR, Wilson TJ, Witbeck MA, Wobler TM, Wright LJ, Zuczkowska KA, Devergne O, Hamill DR, Shah HP, Siders J, Taylor EE, Vrailas-Mortimer AD, Kagey JD. (2022). Genetic mapping of Uba3^O.2.2, a pupal lethal mutation in Drosophila melanogaster. MicroPublication Biol. https://doi.org/10.17912/micropub.biology.000542 

• Molly C Jud, Josh Lowry, Thalia Padilla, Erin Clifford, Yuqi Yang, Francesca Fennell, Alexander K Miller, Danielle Hamill, Austin M Harvey, Martha Avila-Zavala, Hong Shao, Nhan Nguyen Tran, Zhirong Bao, Bruce Bowerman, A genetic screen for temperature-sensitive morphogenesis-defective Caenorhabditis elegans mutants, G3 Genes|Genomes|Genetics, Volume 11, Issue 4, April 2021, jkab026, https://doi.org/10.1093/g3journal/jkab026

• Siders, JL; Bieser, KL; Hamill, DR; Acosta, EC; Alexander, OK; Ali, HI; Anderson, MJ; Arrasmith, HR; Azam, M; Beeman, NJ; Beydoun, H; Bishop, LJ; Blair, MD; Bletch, B; Bline, HR; Brown, JC; Burns, KM; Calagua, KC; *Chafin, L; *Christy, WA; Ciamacco, C; Cizauskas, H; *Colwell, CM; *Courtright, AR; Diaz Alavez, L; Ecret, RI; Edriss, F; Ellerbrock, TG; Ellis, MM; Extine, EM; Feldman, E; Fickenworth, LJ; Goeller, CM; Grogg, AS; Hernandez, Y; Hershner, A; Jauss, MM; Jimenez Garcia, L; Franks, KE; Kazubski, ET; Landis, ER; Langub, J; Lassek, TN; Le, TC; Lee, JM; Levine, DP; *Lightfoot, PJ; Love, N; Maalhagh-Fard, A; Maguire, C; McGinnis, BE; Mehta, BV; Melendrez, V; Mena, ZE; Mendell, S; Montiel-Garcia, P; Murry, AS; Newland, RA; Nobles, RM; Patel, N; Patil, Y; Pfister, CL; Ramage, V; Ray, MR; Rodrigues, J; Rodriquez, VC; Romero, Y; Scott, AM; Shaba, N; Sieg, S; Silva, K; Singh, S; Spargo, AJ; Spitnale, SJ; Sweeden, N; Tague, L; Tavernini, BM; Tran, K; Tungol, L; Vestal, KA; Wetherbee, A; Wright, KM; Yeager, AT; Zahid, R; Kagey, JD (2021). Genetic Mapping of a new Hippo allele, HpoN.1.2, in Drosophila melanogaster. microPublication Biology. https://doi.org/10.17912/micropub.biology.000383

• Kenji Sugioka^#, Danielle R. Hamill^#, Joshua B. Lowry, Marie E. McNeely*, Molly Enrick*, Alyssa C. Richter*, Lauren E. Kiebler*, James R. Priess, Bruce Bowerman (2017). Cenriolar SAS-7 acts upstream of SPD-2 to regulate centriole assembly and pericentriolar material formation. eLife; 6:e20353. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.20353.  (^#Authors contributed equally.)

• Ramon A. Carreno, David Ordosch*, Josephine K. Koltek*, Danielle R. Hamill, and Laura Tuhela (2013).  First United States Records of the Rhigonematid Genera Heth and Ruizia (Nematoda: Rhignoematid) from the Introduced Millipede, Anadenobolus monilicornis (Diplopoda: Rhinocricidae) in Key Largo, Florida, U.S.A.  Comparative Parasitology 80(2): 225-232.

• Sean M. O'Rourke, Clayton Carter, Luke Carter, Sara N. Christensen, Minh P. Jones et al. – including Danielle R. Hamill (2011). A survey of temperature-sensitive, embryonic-lethal mutations in C. elegans: 24 alleles of thirteen genes.  PLoS ONE 6(3), e16644.  https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0016644.

  For more information about Danielle Hamill, view her Curriculum Vitae.

Winner of the 2009 Sherwood Dodge Shankland Award for Encouragement of Teachers