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Lab
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| Bloom, Alex |
Administrative Assistant for the lab. |
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Casati, Paula
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I
am analyzing an important environmental factor — UV-B
— using maize cDNA microarrays and proteomics. For
some candidate genes important in UV-B acclimation I'm determining
whether RNAi knockdown mutants affect UV-B responses. I am
now an Associate Professor at the Center of Photosynthesis
and Biochemical Studies, University of Rosario, Argentina |
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Fernandes, John |
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am the lab bioinformatics specialist and help analyze data
and maintain the lab databases and records. I do DNA
sequence quality checking, perform BLAST searches and work
on the annotation of our candidate genes from microarray experiments. |
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| Kelliher, Tim |
Graduate student researching anther cell division pattern and control. |
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| Kraszewska, Dominika |
Lab
assistant for the Walbot and Yanofsky labs. |
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Morrow, Darren
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generate sequence data from both EST and RescueMu
transposon libraries & explore gene expression during
germinal cell definition in maize. The latter project means
I'm performing most of the microarray hybridizations for our
analysis of anther development. |
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Nan, Gillian
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I
joined the lab to participate in the maize gene discovery
project using a RescueMu transposon tagging strategy.
Now I'm studying the regulation of Mu in the context
of the maize life cycle. |
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| Pimentel, Sam |
Undergraduate
working with John Fernandes. |
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| Skibbe, Dave |
I
am studying the impact that Mutator transposon activity has
on the host by examining the transcriptome and proteome of
active and epigenetically silenced sister maize lines at three
developmental stages of anther development. As a side project,
I am combining classical genetics and state-of-the-art proteomics
techniques to identify genes involved in pollen development. |
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| Vonitter, Ray |
Greenhouse
Assistant, working at Plant Growth Facilities. |
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Walbot, Virginia
Principal Investigator
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central interest is the mechanisms that create allelic diversity
and modulate genome stability in plants. We are currently
trying to define how a "germinal" cell is specified--
that is cells whose descendants enter meiosis -- because Mu
elements change their transposition biochemistry in germinal
compared to somatic cells and genome changes are heritable
only in the germinal cells. |
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| Wilson, Dave |
As the Plant Growth Facilities manager, I oversee the field conditions. |
Alumni
Personnel News
- Maria-Ines Benito is a collaborative investigator at Informax, Inc.
- John Bodeau is exploring SNPs in the human genome at Applied Biosystems
- Vicki Chandler, former postdoc, was elected to the National Academy
of Sciences, spring 2002
- Diane Chermak is a technician in Wolf Frommer's lab at the Carnegie
Institution, Dept. Plant Biology, on campus.
- Yangrae Cho, former postdoc, is a researcher at Polytechnic in Virginia.
- Dave Duncan is working for Pioneer in Redwood City.
- Matt Fitzgerald - A former postdoc who left in mid-2004 to start
his teaching career at local colleges.
- Mike Fromm, former postdoc, is the new director of the biotechnology
center at the University of Nebraska
- Dean Goodman - A former graduate student now a postdoc at the University
of Melbourne, Australia, working on the plant-derived genes
in the malarial genome.
- Soo-Hwan Kim is now an assistant professor at Yonsei University in Korea.
- Jiong Ma is now livingin New Jersey and working in New York.
- Lukas Mueller is now a senior researcher associate at Cornell.
- Brian Nakao - A former Maize Gene Discovery Project sequencing technician
who produced most of our ESTs. He's now working at a start-up
biotech company.
- Akemi Ono studied the role of MURB, the helper protein of the Mu
transposon system and is now doing research at the National
Institute of Basic Biology in Aichi, Japan.
- Claudio Pairoba was a former postdoc and is now investigator for the
Los Andes Online in Argentina.
- Wensheng Qin transferred to the Carnegie Institution on campus to do
his post-doc.
- Manish Raizada is an assistant professor at the Univeristy of Guelph,
Ontario Canada
- George Rudenko is working as a senior research scientist at BioRad
in Hercules, CA.
- Khaled Sarsour, former DNA sequencing technician, is now a graduate
student at UC-Berkeley in the School of Public Health
- Bret Schneider - A former Maize Gene Discovery Project sequencing
technician who produced most of our genomic sequence flanking
RescueMu insertion sites. He's now working at
Ambion in Austin TX.
- Sejal Shah
- Ann Stapleton is an assistant professor at the University of North
Carolina-Wilmington
- Lily Yu
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