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Research Interests
I am interested in tropical plant community ecology and the species interactions which underlie community assembly processes. My dissertation work investigates how the exclusion of tropical mammals alters plant community functional diversity in a neotropical forest in Panama. I am also interested in the molecular and chemical ecology of plant defense.
Publications
Kurten, E.L., C.P. Synder, T. Iwata, and P.M. Vitousek. 2008. Morella cerifera invasion and nitrogen cycling on a lowland Hawaiian Lava Flow. Biological Invasions. Biological Invasions. 10(1): 19-24.
Wu, J., E.L. Kurten, G. Monhausen, G.M. Hummel, S. Gilroy, I.T. Baldwin. 2007. NaRALF, a peptide signal essential for the regulation of root hair tip apoplatic pH in Nicotiana attenuata, is required for root hair development and plant growth in native soils. The Plant Journal. 52(5): 877-890.
Rutkoski, T.J., E.L. Kurten, J.C. Mitchell, and R.T. Raines. 2005. Disruption of shape-complementarity markers to create cytotoxic variants of ribonuclease A. J. Mol. Biol. 354: 41-54.
Haigis, M.C., E.L. Kurten, and R.T. Raines. 2003. Ribonuclease inhibitor as an intracellular sentry. Nuc. Acid. Res. 31: 1024-1032.
Haigis, M.C. E.L. Kurten, R.L. Abel, and R.T. Raines. 2002. KFERQ sequence in ribonuclease A-mediated cytotoxicity. J. Biol. Chem. 277: 11576-11581. |
