Email

keuls@bcm.edu

Positions

Tech, Research II

Ctr Stem Cell & Regen
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX, US

Honors & Awards

Deborah K. Martin Award for Outstanding Current Graduate Student

Baylor College of Medicine Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences

Dean’s Award of Excellence

Baylor College of Medicine Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences

BioLegend Microscopy Image Winner

Marcy C. Speer Memorial Award - International Conference on Neural Tube Defects for 1st Place Oral Presentation

1st Place Poster Award Gulf Coast Consortia’s 32nd Keck Annual Research Conference

The Dan L. Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, 18th Annual Symposium Scientific Image Contest - Honorable Mention

Graduate Student Symposium Microscopy Cover Art Photo Winner

Society for Developmental Biology Annual Meeting Poster Competition – Semi-Finalist

Society for Developmental Biology Annual Meeting Grant

Cell and Gene Therapy Annual Retreat Poster Presentation - 2nd place

Society for Developmental Biology Annual Meeting Poster Competition - Honorable Mention

Cell and Gene Therapy poster award for “Flashy Science”

American Association for Anatomy Award (Craniofacial Genetics and Developmental Biology Annual Meeting)

Baylor College of Medicine GSBS Busch-80 Scholarship

Cell and Gene Therapy Annual Retreat Oral Presentation - 3rd place

Selected Publications

• Maternal metabolism influences neural tube closure " ;
  Pubmed PMID: 37468429.
• Rachel A Keuls, Karin Kojima, Brittney Lozzi, John W Steele, Qiuying Chen, Steven S Gross, Richard H Finnell, Ronald J Parchem. " MiR-302 Regulates Glycolysis to Control Cell-Cycle During Neural Tube Closure " Int J Mol Sci.. 2020 Oct ;
  Pubmed PMID: 33066028.
• Rachel A Keuls, Young Sun Oh, Ivanshi Patel, Ronald J Parchem. " Post-transcriptional regulation in cranial neural crest cells expands developmental potential " PNAS. 2023 Feb ;
  Pubmed PMID: 36724256.
• Rachel A Keuls, Ronald J Parchem. " Preparation of Small RNA Libraries for Sequencing from Early Mouse Embryos. " J Vis Exp. 2020 Oct ;
  Pubmed PMID: 33104065.
• Rachel A. Keuls Ronald J. Parchem. " Single-Cell Multiomic Approaches Reveal Diverse Labeling of the Nervous System by Common Cre-Drivers " Front Cell Neurosci. 2021 Apr ;
  Pubmed PMID: 33935652.
• Jacqueline G Parchem, Keizo Kanasaki, Soo Bong Lee, Megumi Kanasaki, Joyce L Yang, Yong Xu, Kadeshia M Earl, Rachel A Keuls, Vincent H Gattone 2nd, Raghu Kalluri. " STOX1 deficiency is associated with renin-mediated gestational hypertension and placental defects " JCI Insight. 2021 Jan ;
  Pubmed PMID: 33301424.

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Funding

Yolk Sac MicroRNAs Regulate Brain Development
#1F31HD110243

$47,694.00   (08/17/2023 - 09/30/2025)

Grant funding from NIH

Impact Score: 10, Percentile: 1st

Training in Precision Environmental Health Sciences (TPEHS) NIEHS T32 Fellowship Program (T32 ES027801, PI: Cheryl Walker, Baylor College of Medicine)

Grant funding from NIH