Thomas M. Blomquist M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
University of Toledo Health Sciences Campus
Department of Pathology, MS #1090
3000 Arlington Avenue
Toledo, Ohio 43614-2598
Medical Education and Training:
听听 M.D. University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio
听听 Ph.D.聽 University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio
听听 Resident in Anatomical Pathology, University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio
Board Certification:
听听 American Board of Pathology, Anatomic Pathology
听听 American Board of Pathology, Clinical Pathology
Clinical Interests:
听听 Molecular pathology
听听 Medical informatics
听听 Autopsy pathology
Research Interests:
听听 Molecular diagnostics
听听 Novel computational approaches to answering complex biomedical questions
Recent Publications:
听听Hsieh M; Collins ED; Blomquist T; Lustig B.聽 Flexibility of BIV TAR-Tat: models of peptide binding. Journal of Biomolecular
Structure and Dynamics 20(2):243-51, 2002
听听聽Crawford EL; Blomquist T; Mullins DN; Yoon Y; Hernandez DR; Al-Bagdhadi M; Ruiz J; Hammersley J; Willey JC.聽
CEBPG regulates ERCC5/XPG expression in human bronchial epithelial cells and this
regulation is modified by E2F1/YY1 interactions. Carcinogenesis 28(12):2552-9, 2007
听听聽Blomquist T; Crawford EL; Mullins D; Yoon Y; Hernandez DA; Khuder S; Ruppel PL; Peters E; Oldfield
DJ; Austermiller B; Anders JC; Willey JC.聽 Pattern of antioxidant and DNA repair gene
expression in normal airway epithelium associated with lung cancer diagnosis. Cancer
Research 69(22):8629-35, 2009
听听 Blomquist TM; Crawford EL; Willey JC.聽 Cis-acting genetic variation at an E2F1/YY1 response site
and putative p53 site is associated with altered allele-specific expression of ERCC5
(XPG) transcript in normal human bronchial epithelium. Carcinogenesis 31(7):1242-50, 2010
听听 Blomquist, T.聽 Development of Bimodal Gene Expression Analysis and Allele-Specific Competitive PCR
for Investigation of Complex Genetic Traits, Lung Cancer Risk.聽 Doctoral Dissertation.聽
UT-HSC College of Medicine. 聽,聽 2010.
听听 Blomquist, T. and J.C. Willey, Inherited Genetic Predisposition to Lung Cancer and COPD. Lung Cancer
Frontiers, 2013.
听听 Stanoszek LM; Crawford EL; Blomquist TM; Warns JA; Willey PF; Willey JC.聽 Quality control methods for optimal BCR-ABL1 clinical
testing in human whole blood samples. Journal of Molecular Diagnostics 15(3):391-400, 2013
听听 Blomquist TM, Brown RD, Crawford EL, de la Serna I, Williams K, Yoon Y, Hernandez DA, Willey JC.聽
CEBPG Exhibits Allele-Specific Expression in Human Bronchial Epithelial Cells.
听听聽Blomquist TM; Crawford EL; Lovett JL; Yeo J; Stanoszek LM; Levin A; Li J; Lu M; Shi L; Muldrew
K; Willey JC. Targeted RNA-Sequencing with Competitive Multiplex-PCR Amplicon Libraries.聽
PLoS One 8(11):e79120, 2013.
听听聽Yeo J; Crawford EL; Blomquist TM; Stanoszek LM; Dannemiller RE; Zyrek J; De Las Casas LE; Khuder SA; Willey JC. A
Multiplex Two-Color Real-Time PCR Method for Quality-Controlled Molecular Diagnostic
Testing of FFPE Samples. PLoS One 9(2):e89395, 2014.