Faculty/Staff Bio

Ashley Hejmanowski

Lab Manager

Education

• PhD., The Ohio State University
• BA, Ohio Wesleyan University

About

Ashley Hejmanowski coordinates the instructional laboratories in the Chemistry Department.  Previously, she was a laboratory instructor for the department’s General Chemistry classes.  Her educational background is in molecular pathology, specifically the genetics of lethal diseases of childhood.  She lives in Delaware with her husband and two children.

Publications

• Prior TW, Swoboda KJ, Scott HD, Hejmanowski AQ.  "Homozygous SMN1 deletions in unaffected family members and modification of the phenotype by SMN2."  Am J Med Genet. 2004 Oct 15; 130A (3):307-10.
• Morrison CD, Papp AC, Hejmanowski AQ, Addis VM, Prior TW.  "Increased D allele frequency of the angiotensin-converting enzyme gene in pulmonary fibrosis." Hum Pathol. 2001 May; 32(5):521-8.
• Knight DA, Hejmanowski AQ, Dierksheide JE, Williams JW, Chong AS, Waldman WJ.  "Inhibition of herpes simplex virus type 1 by the experimental immunosuppressive agent leflunomide."  Transplantation. 2001 Jan 15; 71(1):170-4.

Presentations at Scientific Meetings

• Hejmanowski AQ, McWhorter ML, Beattie CE, Burghes AHM, Prior TW.  "Screening to develop a zebrafish model of spinal muscular atrophy."  Poster at the 2003 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics.
• Hejmanowski AQ, Burghes AHM, Prior TW.  "SMARD gene scan in non 5q SMA patients."  Poster at the 2002 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics and 2003 Ohio State University Medical Center Graduate and Postgraduate Research Day.
• Hejmanowski AQ, Sommer A, Prior TW.  "Investigation of prenatal samples with ultrasound findings suggesting dwarfing syndromes."  Poster at the 2001 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics and 2002 Ohio State University Medical Center Graduate and Postgraduate Research Day.