Dr. Mulle is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry in the Robert Wood Johnson School of Medicine at Rutgers University. She earned her undergraduate degree from Johns Hopkins University, her master’s degree in genetic epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, and her PhD in Human Genetics from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. In 2006 she moved to Emory University for her Postdoctoral fellowship with Dr. Steve Warren. Dr. Mulle’s lifelong interest is in the genetics of schizophrenia. During her postdoctoral fellowship, Dr. Mulle discovered that changes in DNA dosage at two genetic hotspots, the 7q11.23 locus and the 3q29 locus, both increase risk for schizophrenia. At the 3q29 locus, the loss (or deletion) of genetic material causes a major increase in schizophrenia risk. To understand this phenomenon, Dr. Mulle formed The 3q29 Project, an interdisciplinary collaborative designed to understand the phenotypic spectrum, natural history, and molecular mechanism of the 3q29 deletion. In 2021 Dr. Mulle joined the faculty at Rutgers, establishing New Jersey and Rutgers as the new home of The 3q29 Project. Dr. Mulle’s research program focused on the 3q29 deletion as a model to identify the molecular and cellular underpinnings of schizophrenia and associated neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders.
