Nicholas L. Bodkin
G2 MD/PhD Student at Northwestern University
Hi! My name is Nico, and I’m an MD/PhD Candidate at Northwestern University studying the genetic causes of neurodevelopmental disorders. Before joining Northwestern in 2021, I earned degrees in Biology and Computer Science from Duke University and spent one year developing tools for Octant, a drug-discovery start-up. Since starting the MD/PhD program here, I’ve completed the first two years of medical school, passed Step 1, and joined my PhD lab.
I am now fully immersed as a graduate student in the Carvill Lab at Northwestern, studying neurogenetics and multiplexed assays of variant effect. I am currently focused on projects to resolve variants of uncertain significance using high-throughput single-cell technologies.
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news
| May 11, 2025 | Nico was awarded the Dr. John N Nicholson Fellowship for full funding during the 2025-26 academic year |
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| Aug 2, 2024 | Nico’s abstract got selected for a Platform Talk at the American Society for Human Genetics (ASHG) conference in Denver! |
| Jul 11, 2024 | Nico won the MSTP Student Service Award for his work as Student Council Co-Chair during the 23-24 academic year |
| Jan 23, 2024 | Nico officially joins the Carvill Lab for his PhD! |
| Aug 2, 2023 | Nico was appointed to Northwestern’s Physical Genomics Training Program T32 |
selected publications
- Systematic comparison of published host gene expression signatures for bacterial/viral discriminationGenome Medicine, 2022
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- Prevalence of and gene regulatory constraints on transcriptional adaptation in single cellsGenome biology, 2024
- Protocol to perform multiplexed assays of variant effect using curated loci prime editingSTAR Protocols, 2025