Lori Boies, Ph.D., MPH

• Ph.D., University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, 2010
• MPH, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, 2021
• B.S. (Honors), Angelo State University, 2006

• General Biology
• Physiology
• Neurophysiology
• Biostatistics for Life Sciences
• Genes, Genomes, and Genomics
• Introduction to Bioinformatics
• Bioinformatics Capstone
• Fundamentals of Epidemiology
• First Year Seminar

Lori Boies, Ph.D., MPH, is the Graduate Program Director of the M.S. in Medical Genomics Program, Director of the undergraduate Bioinformatics Program, and a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at St. Mary’s University. She joined the faculty in 2013 and teaches courses in genomics, bioinformatics, biostatistics, epidemiology and the biological sciences.

Boies earned a B.S. in Biochemistry from Angelo State University and a Ph.D. in Cancer Biology from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, where her research focused on neuro-oncology and neural stem cell biology. While on the faculty at St. Mary’s, she earned a Master of Public Health (MPH) in Epidemiology and a Graduate Certificate in Genomics and Bioinformatics from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health. Her graduate research used genome-wide association analysis to investigate genetic susceptibility to anthracycline-induced cardiotoxicity among childhood cancer survivors.

Her current scholarship spans genomics and bioinformatics education, quantitative biology, and epidemiology. Through the Genomics Education Partnership (GEP), she engages students in collaborative genomic research and holds national leadership roles. She also holds leadership roles with the National Institute on Scientific Teaching, supporting evidence-based and inclusive approaches to science education. Her broader research interests include science education, artificial intelligence in teaching and learning, and observational studies of animal behavior and ecology.

Boies also draws on her public health research background to investigate physician-family health and well-being, examining the experiences of physicians’ spouses and partners, including relationships among physician workload, career effects and relationship fulfillment. This work complements her national service with the American Medical Association Alliance, where she serves in leadership roles focused on physician-family wellness, educational programming and research.

Across her teaching and scholarship, Boies emphasizes scientific inquiry, quantitative reasoning and authentic research experiences that allow students to contribute to meaningful scientific questions. Outside the classroom, she is an avid nature and wildlife photographer with a particular interest in biodiversity and animal behavior.

Boies, L. (2026). Evaluating Artificial Intelligence, Peer, and Instructor Feedback Across Scientific Communication Assignments in Undergraduate Biology. Ecology and Evolution, 16(9), e74365. doi.org/10.1002/ece3.74365

Boies, L., Ciudad, E.¹, Harvey, K., Shanafelt, T. D., Sotile, W. M., and Muehlenbein, L. (2026). Relationship fulfillment among spouses and partners of physicians: Findings from the AMA Alliance Physician Family Experience Survey. BMC Health Services Research. doi.org/10.1186/s12913-026-15628-2

Nguyen, V.¹, Hernandez, K.¹, Elbayeh, M.¹, Shackleford, T., and Boies, L. (2026). Abstract 5753 SOX18 Overexpression Drives Context-Specific Immune Suppression and Extracellular Matrix Remodeling in Pediatric Ewing Sarcoma. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 302(5). doi.org/10.1016/j.jbc.2026.111688

Boies, L., Tinacba, F.¹, and Shackleford, T. J. (2026). Urban Green Spaces Set the Stage for Rare Interspecific Allopreening Between Crested Caracara (Caracara plancus) and Black Vultures (Coragyps atratus). Ecology and Evolution, 16(1), e72669. doi.org/10.1002/ece3.72669

Laskowski, L. F., Gruys, M. L., Huber, R., DiGeronimo, A., Arsham, A. M., Chandrasekaran, V., Rele, C. P., and Boies, L. (2026). Gene model for the ortholog of Ilp4 in Drosophila simulans (p. 2026.02.06.704405). bioRxiv. doi.org/10.64898/2026.02.06.704405

Cowan, R., Uppal, A., Larsen, C. I. S., Ellison, C. E., Torosin, N. S., Thompson, J. S., Rele, C. P., and Boies, L. (2025). Gene model for the ortholog of Ilp4 in Drosophila eugracilis. bioRxiv, 2025.09.05.674564. doi.org/10.1101/2025.09.05.674564

Cowan, R., Koehler, A., Larsen, C. I. S., Thompson, J. S., Arsham, A. M., and Boies, L. (2025). Gene model for the ortholog of Ilp4 in Drosophila grimshawi. bioRxiv, 2025.08.25.672213. doi.org/10.1101/2025.08.25.672213

Ciudad EA¹, Tayal M¹, Boies L. (2023) Understanding the Evolutionary Conservation of the Ilp1 gene across Drosophila: Genomics Education Partnership. In Proceedings of the 14th ACM International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (BCB ’23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 95, doi.org/10.1145/3584371.3613026

Boies, L, (2021) Identification of Anthracycline-Induced Cardiotoxic Susceptible Loci in Childhood Cancer Survivors (Accession No. 30313365) [Master Thesis, The University of Texas School of Public Health]. ProQuest Dissertations Publishing.

Aleman, J.¹, Adkins, A.¹, Boies, L., Al-Quiati, F.¹, Sako, E., and Bhattacharya, S. (2017). Effects of Cinching Force on the Tricuspid Annulus: A Species Comparison. Journal of Cardiovascular Diseases & Diagnosis, 5(4), 283. doi.org/10.4172/2329-9517.1000283

Adkins, A¹, Aleman, J¹, Boies, L, Sako, E, and Bhattacharya, S (2015). Force Required to Cinch the Tricuspid Annulus: An Ex-Vivo Study. The Journal of Heart Valve Disease, 24(5), 644–652.

Adkins A^1,2, Aleman J^1,2, Boies L, Sako E, Bhattacharya S, Force required to cinch the tricuspid annulus: an ex vivo study (2015) Summer Biomechanics, Bioengineering, and Biotransport Conference (SB3C), 135-136, Snowbird, Utah

Boies, L, (2011) Novel Astrocyte-Specific Transgenic Mice Identify Distinct Populations of Transient Amplifying Progenitor Cells and Long-Lived Neural Stem Cells In the Subgranular Zone of the Adult Mouse Brain [Doctoral Dissertation, The University of Texas Southwestern Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences]. UT Southwestern Electronic Theses and Dissertations.

Loomis L and Flynn NE (2006) Determining glucocorticoid receptor activity in American dietary components using S-gal as a novel reporter substrate. Journal of Undergraduate Chemistry Research. 3: 111-114.

¹ St. Mary’s University student

² Co-first authors