Dr. Megan Orr

Associate Professor
Gene Expression Analysis, High-Dimensional Data Analysis, Multiple Testing, Public Health Research and Cancer Research
Email:Megan.Orr@ndsu.edu
Office: 334 K Minard Hall

Education
  • Ph.D. (2012)-Iowa State University
Courses Taught
  • STAT 462/662: Introduction to Experimental Design
  • STAT 725:       Applied Statistics
  • STAT 764:       Multivariate Methods
  • STAT 840:       Introduction to Statistical Design and Analysis of
                            Gene Expression Experiments
  • MPH  731:       Biostatistics
Selected Publications

Wisenden, B.D., Paulson, D.C., Orr, M., (2022), “Zebrafish embryos hatch early in response to chemical and mechanical indicators of predation risk, resulting in under-developed swimming ability of hatchling larvae,” Biology Open, DOI: doi.org/10.1242/bio.059229

Beuttner-Schmidt, K., Miller, D.R., Orr, M., Balasubramanian, N., Rykal, K., Steward, K.F., Swanson, K., Berry, M., (2021), “Electronic Cigarette Refill Liquids: Nicotine Content, Presence of Child-Resistant Packaging, and in-Shop Compounding,” Journal of Pediatric Nursing, 59, 45-54, DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.pedn.2020.12.016

Ray, P., Dutta, D., Haque, I., Nair, G., Mohammed, J., Parmer, M., Kale, N., Orr, M., Jain, P., Banerjee. S., Reindl, K.M., Mallik, S., Kambhampati, S., Banerjee, S.K., and Quadir, M., (2021) “pH-Sensitive Nanodrug Carriers for Codelivery of ERK Inhibitor and Gemcitabine Enhance the Inhibition of Tumor Growth in Pancreatic Cancer,” Molecular Pharmaceutics, 18, 87-100, DOI: doi.org/10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.0c00499

Miller, D.R., Buettner-Schmidt, K., Orr, M., Rykal, K., Niewojna, E. (2021), "A systematic review of refillable e-liquid nicotine content accuracy," Journal of the American Pharmacists Association, 38, 20-26, DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.japh.2020.09.006

Singh, R.R., Mohammad, J., Orr, M., Reindl, K.M., (2020), "Glutathione S-Transferase pi-1 Knockdown Reduces Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma Growth by Activating Oxidative Stress Response Pathways," Cancers, 12, 1501, DOI: doi.org/10.3390/cancers12061501

Werremeyer, A. and Orr, M., (2019), "Pharmacist-led medication education groups on an inpatient psychiatric unit – Impact on readmissions and emergency department visits," Journal of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy, 2, 228-235, DOI: 10.1002/jac5.1060

Kotoka, E. and Orr, M., (2017), "Modifying SAMseq to account for asymmetry in the distribution of effect sizes when identifying differentially expressed genes," Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology, 16, 333-347,DOI: 10.1515/sagmb-2016-0037

Orr, M., Liu, P., Nettleton, D., (2014), "An Improved Method for Computing Q-values when the Distribution of Effect Sizes is Asymmetric," Bioinformatics, 30, 3044-3053, DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btu432

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