Professor
Department of Medical Sciences

Dr. Siracusa’s teaching expertise is in the field of Medical Genetics and Genomics. Her research interests combine the fields of molecular genomics and disease, with a special emphasis on cancer susceptibility.

Education

• Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo
• B.Sc., Cornell University

Scholarship

• Bussard, K.M. and L.D. Siracusa (2017) Understanding Mitochondrial Polymorphisms in Cancer. Cancer Genetics 77: 6051-6059.
• Nnadi, S.C., Watson, R. Innocent, J., Gonye, G.E., Buchberg, A.M. and L.D. Siracusa (2012) Identification of five novel modifier loci of ApcMin harbored in the BXH14 Recombinant Inbred strain. Carcinogenesis 33: 1589-1597.
• Justice, M.J., Siracusa, L.D. and A.F. Stewart (2011) Mouse Models of Human Disease. Disease Models & Mechanisms 4: 305-310.
• Rossi, S., Sevignani, C., Nnadi, S.C., Siracusa, L.D. and G.A. Calin (2008) Cancer-associated genomic regions (CAGRs) and non-coding RNAs: Bioinformatics and therapeutic implications. Mammalian Genome 19: 526-540.
• Herron, B.J., Liddell, R.A., Parker, A., Grant, S., Kinne, J., Fisher, J.K. and L.D. Siracusa (2005) A mutation in stratifin is responsible for the repeated epilation (Er) phenotype in mice. Nature Genetics 37: 1210-1212.