Roger B. Deal
	Graduate Student, Ph.D. candidate Department of Genetics Life Science Building University of Georgia Athens, GA 30602
	Phone: 706-542-1410 Fax: 706-542-1387 E-mail: rdeal@uga.edu
	EDUCATION 1999 B.S. Biology, University of South Carolina 2001-present Genetics Ph.D. student, University of Georgia
RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 1997-1999 Lab Technician, Dr. Laszlo Marton's Lab, University of South Carolina 1999-2001 Research/Teaching assistant, University of South Carolina 2001-present Ph.D. Student, Genetics Department, University of Georgia
HONORS AND AWARDS Howard Hughes Undergraduate Research Fellow 1997-1998 President’s Honor List – University of South Carolina 1997-1999 Designed and taught undergraduate Biochemistry lab course 2000-2001 National Institutes of Health Genetics Training Grant Award Recipient, 2002-2003, 2003-2004, 2004-2005 Best Graduate Student Presentation Award – UGA Plant Center Retreat, 2005
PUBLICATIONS: *6. Deal, R.B., Kandasamy, M.K., McKinney, E.C. and Meagher, R.B. 2005. The Nuclear Actin-Related Protein ARP6 Is a Pleiotropic Developmental Regulator Required for the Maintenance of FLOWERING LOCUS C Expression and Repression of Flowering in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell 17: 2633-2646. 5. Kandasamy, M.K., Deal, R.B., McKinney, E.C. and Meagher, R.B. 2005a. Silencing the nuclear actin-related protein AtARP4 in Arabidopsis has multiple effects on plant development, including early flowering and delayed floral senescence. Plant J 41: 845-58. 4. Kandasamy, M.K., McKinney, E.C., Deal, R.B. and Meagher, R.B. 2005. ARP7 is an essential actin-related protein required for embryo development and its knockdown affects plant architecture and flower senescence in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiol 138: 2019-2032. 3. Meagher, R.B., Deal, R.B., Kandasamy, M.K. and McKinney, E.C. 2005. Nuclear actin-related proteins as epigenetic regulators of development. Plant Physiol 139: 1576-85. 2. Pawloski, L.C., Deal, R.B., McKinney, E.C., Burgos-Rivera, B. and Meagher, R.B. 2005. Inverted repeat PCR for the rapid assembly of constructs to induce RNA interference. Plant Cell Physiol 46: 1872-8. 1. Kandasamy, M.K., Deal, R.B., McKinney, E.C. and Meagher, R.B. 2004. Plant actin-related proteins. Trends Plant Sci 9: 196-202. * This paper was profiled in the following editorial article: A Time to Grow, a Time to Flower. (2005). Plant Cell. 17 (10): 2615-2617 PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS OF RESEARCH 1. The Nuclear Actin-Related Protein AtARP6 Controls Flowering Time, Leaf Development, and Resistance to a Fungal Pathogen in Arabidopsis. (2004). American Society of Plant Biologists. (Poster presentation) 2. The Nuclear Actin-Related Protein ARP6 is a Developmental Regulator Required for the Maintenance of FLC Expression and Repression of Flowering in Arabidopsis. (2005). 16th International Conference on Arabidopsis Research. (Poster Presentation) 3. The Role of Actin-Related Protein 6 in Arabidopsis Development. (2005). University of Georgia Plant Center Retreat. (Oral presentation)