Clinical Interests

Clinical cytogenetics; molecular genetics

Research Interests

Genome-wide analysis for chromosome aberrations in congenital disorders; cancer using molecular cytogenetic techniques 

BS: Heidelberg College, Tiffin, OH 2001.

PhD: University of Dayton, Dayton, OH, 2007.

Fellowship: Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 2009.

Sellars EA, Zimmerman SL, Smolarek T, Hopkin RJ. Ventricular noncompaction and absent thumbs in a newborn with tetrasomy 5q35.2-5q35.3: An association with Hunter-McAlpine syndrome? Am J Med Genet A. 2011 Jun;155A(6):1409-13.

Myers K, Davies SM, Harris RE, Spunt SL, Smolarek T, Zimmerman S, McMasters R, Wagner L, Mueller R, Auerbach AD, Mehta PA. The Clinical Phenotype of Children With Fanconi Anemia Caused by Biallelic FANCD1/BRCA2 Mutations. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2011.

Suzuki T, Sakagami T, Rubin BK, Nogee LM, Wood RE, Zimmerman SL, Smolarek T, Dishop MK, Wert SE, Whitsett JA, Grabowski G, Carey BC, Stevens C, van der Loo JC, Trapnell BC. Familial pulmonary alveolar proteinosis caused by mutations in CSF2RA. J Exp Med. 2008 Nov 24;205(12): 2703-10.

Zimmerman SL, Frisbie J, Goldstein D, West J, Rivera K, Krane CM. Excretion and conservation of glycerol, expression of aquaporins and glyceroporins, during cold acclimation in Cope’s Gray Treefrog, Hyla chrysoscelis. Am J Physiol Regu Integr Comp Physiol. 2007 Jan;292: R544-R555.