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Regina S. Baucom
Contact Information
Phone: 706-542-9729
Email: gbaucom@uga.edu
Homepage: http://gbaucom.myweb.uga.edu
Address:
Department of Genetics
C424 Life Sciences Building
Athens, GA 30602
Education
Ph.D. University of Georgia, Department of Genetics. 2006.
B.S. University of Tennessee, Knoxville. 1999.
Professional Experience
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, laboratory of Jeffrey L. Bennetzen, University of Georgia, Department of Genetics. 2006-present.
Graduate Student, laboratory of Rodney Mauricio, University of Georgia, Department of Genetics. 2000-2006.
- Dissertation title “The evolution of tolerance in the common morning glory Ipomoea purpurea: From genetics to geography.”
Independent Undergraduate Research Fellow, Threshold Biology Honors Program, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the Howard Hughes Medical Foundation. 1997-1999.
- Thesis title “The effect of deforestation on the genetic diversity and structure in Acer saccharum (Marsh): Evidence for the loss and restructuring of genetic variation in a natural system.”
Undergraduate Research Technician, laboratory of Christine R. B. Boake, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 1995-1997.
Publications
Morris, A, RS Baucom, and MB Cruzan. 2002. Stratified Analysis of the Soil Seed Bank in the Cedar Glade Endemic, Astragalus bibullatus : Evidence for Historical Changes in Genetic Structure. American Journal of Botany 89(1): 29-36.
Baucom, RS and R Mauricio. 2004. Fitness costs of novel herbicide tolerance in a noxious weed. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 101 (36): 13386-13390.
Baucom, RS, JC Estill and MB Cruzan. 2005. The effect of deforestation on the genetic diversity and structure in Acer saccharum (Marsh): Evidence for the loss and restructuring of genetic variation in a natural system. Conservation Genetics 6:39-50.
Baucom, RS, and R Mauricio. The evolution of novel herbicide tolerance in a noxious weed: The geographic mosaic of selection. In press Evolutionary Ecology.
Fellowships and Grants
Dissertation Completion Fellowship from UGA Graduate School. 2005-2006.
National Institute of Health Training Grant to the UGA Department of Genetics. Predoctoral Research Assistantship. 2004-2005.
National Science Foundation/USDA. Mechanisms of Plant Evolution Training Grant to the UGA Plant Biology Department. 2000-2004.
National Science Foundation, Population Biology Panel (DEB-0308869), “Dissertation Research: Evolutionary Genetics of Novel Herbicide Tolerance in the Common Morning Glory,” 2003 – 2005, $8,100.
Sigma-Xi Grants-In-Aid of Research, 2002, $800.