Graduate Student Alumni - Meagher Laboratory
GRADUATE STUDENTS- in reverse chronological order Thomas McKnight, Ph.D., 1983, Genetics Dept., "DNA Sequences at the 5' Ends of Plant Genes." Present: Professor and Associate Head, Biology Dept., Texas A & M. http://gene.tamu.edu/faculty_pages/faculty_McKnightT.php Virginia Eckenrode, Ph.D., 1983, Biochemistry Dept., "Sequence Analysis of an 18S Gene and Physical Mapping of an rDNA Repeat Unit from Soybean." Postdoctoral Fellow with Dr. Sam Levings, Genetics Dept., N.C. State. Free-lance Science Writer, Falmouth, MA. Tom Hagen, Ph.D., 1984, Botany Dept., "Characterization and Preliminary Mapping of Cauliflower Mosaic Virus Specific Transcripts in Total and Polysomal RNA." Present position as Teaching, Laboratory Manager, Microbiology Department, UGA. Sandy Berry-Lowe, Ph.D., 1985, Genetics Dept., "Isolation and Characterization of a Ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate Carboxylase Gene in Soybean." Professor, Dept. of Biology, Univ. of CA, Colorado Springs, CO. Program Director at NSF. http://www.uccs.edu/~biology/faculty/berry-lowe.htm Robin Hightower, Ph.D., 1985, Genetics Dept., "Divergence and Differential Expression of Soybean Actin Genes." Patent officer for Novartis, Inc. Gail McLean, Ph.D. 1989, "Differential Expression of Three Classes of Plant Actin Protein." USDA Program Manager. http://www.csrees.usda.gov/about/AllUnits/staff_view.cfm?record_id=347 Donna Ham, M.S. 1988, " Analysis of Polyadenylation Sites for the Transcripts from Two Soybean Ribulose-1,5-Bisphosphate Carboxylase Small Subunit Genes". Research Scientist, Ecogen, Inc. in Langhorne, Pennsylvania Michael D. McLean, Ph.D. 1989, "Analysis of Homologous Alleles in Soybean," and "Petunia Actin Gene Superfamily Contains Several Independently Amplified Subfamilies." Instructor at University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada http://www.envbio.uoguelph.ca/p_sgf.shtml Brenda Sophia J (Shirley) Winkel, Ph.D. 1989, "Regulation of Soybean RuBP Carboxylase Genes In Vivo and in Transgenic Plants." Professor, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Dept. of Biology, College of Arts and Sciences, Blacksburg, VA. http://www.biol.vt.edu/faculty/winkel.html Deborah Marin, Ph.D. 1990, "Light Regulated Turnover of Native and Foreign RuBPCss mRNA in Petunia." Senior Research Scientist, Entomology, University of North Carolina. Bob Gregerson, Ph.D. 1991. "Alcohol Dehydrogenase Gene Expression in Petunia..” Currently working in the Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics at the University of Minnesota in St. Paul. Shurong Huang, Ph.D. 1995, "Actin Isoforms in Higher Plants; Tissue and Cell Type Actin Gene Expression on RNA Phenotypes." Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of CA, Berkeley, CA. Currently a Researach Scientist at Palo Alto Institute of Molecular Medicine Matthew Tanzer, Ph.D. 1995. "An in vitro degradation system for ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase small subunit mRNA in soybean and petunia." Project Director, Paradigm Genetics, Inc. http://www.linkedin.com/pub/0/926/a42 John McDowell, Ph.D. 1995. "The actin gene family of Arabidopsis thaliana.”. Associate Professor, Biology Department, Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Yong-Quiang An, Ph.D. 1995. "The molecular genetics of actin gene regulation in native and transgenic plants." Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. Ravishankar Palanivelu, Ph.D. 1998. "Expression and Functional Analysis of (Arabidopsis thaliana) Poly(A) Binding Protein 2, PAB2." Research Scientist in Daphne Preuss' Lab at the University of Chicago, Dept. of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology. http://ag.arizona.edu/PLS/faculty/palanivelu.htm Angela Vitale, PhD. 2001. “The Evolution of Arabidopsis thaliana Actin Gene Reproductive Subclass Expression Pattern”. Currently working at the Division of Rheumatology and Immunology, Tufts-New England Medical Center, Boston, MA.
Scott Bizily, PhD. 2001. “Genetic Engineering of Plants With the Bacterial Genes MerA and MerB for the Phytoremediation of Methylmercury Contaminated Sediments.” Currently attending law school at The University of Pennsylvania. http://www.weil.com/wgm/pages/Controller.jsp?z=h&sz=0
Laura Gilliland, PhD. 2001. “Molecular, Cellular and Population Analysis of Vegetative Actin Mutants in Arabidopsis thaliana.” Currently a Postdoc in the Dept of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Michigan State University in E. Lansing. Andrew Heaton, PhD. 2002. “Enhanced Mercury Processing by Plants Genetically Engineered for Mercury Phytoremediation.” Currently a Postdoc here in the Meagher Lab
Annie Marie Zimeri, PhD. “Ancient Classes of Metallothioneins in Arabidopsis thaliana; Differential Metal ion Stabilization and Plant Function as Determined by RNA Interference and Overexpression”. Currently a Research Associate at the USDA-ARS Toxicology and Mycotoxin Research Unit at Russell Research Center here in Athens. Lucia Cardenas, PhD. 2005. “Identification of Actin Mutations and Characterization of Reproductive Actin Mutants in Arabidopsis thaliana. Currently: Research Scientist at the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta. Roger Deal, Ph.D. 2006. “Mechanism of histone variant H2A.Z deposition and the epigenetic control of plant development” 2006. Currently: Postdoctoral Fellow at the Fred Hutchens Cancer Institute. http://www.fhcrc.org/ |
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