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Purdy Lab: Regulation of acetyl-CoA synthetase transcription by the CrbS/R two-component system is conserved in genetically diverse environmental pathogens

Kristin Jacob, Anna Rasmussen ‘13, Paul Tyler ‘14, Mariah M. Servos ‘14, Mariame Sylla ‘15, Cecilia Prado, Elizabeth Daniele, Josh S. Sharp, and Alexandra E. Purdy

PLOS ONE May 2017

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Hood Lab: Transmission and temporal dynamics of anther-smut disease on aIpine carnation

Bruns, E., Antonovics, J., Carasso, V., and Hood, M. E.

JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY, 2017 (in press)

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Hood Lab: Co-occurrence and hybridization of anther-smut pathogens specialized on Dianthus hosts

Petit, E., Silver, C., Cornille, A., Gladieux, P., Rosenthal, L., Bruns, E.,Vee,S.,Antonovics, J ., Giraud,T., Hood, M. E.

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Hood Lab: Massive Expansion of Gypsy-Like Retrotransposons in Microbotryum Fungi

Felix Horns,Elsa Petit,and Michael E. Hood

GENOME BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, 2017, 9: 363-371

Microbotryum anther-smut fungi experiences bursts of transposable element proliferation within the genome.

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Miller and Levin: Floral size and shape evolution following the transition to gender dimorphism

Ambika Kamath'11, Rachel A. Levin, Jill S. Miller

American Journal of Botany
VOLUME 104, 2017

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Trapani Lab: “Intensity-dependent timing and precision of startle response latency in larval zebrafish.”

Eileen Troconis’15, Alex Ordoobadi’15, Tom Sommers’16, Razina Aziz-Bose’14, Ashley R. Carter, & Josef G. Trapani

May 2016. The Journal of Physiology

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Clotfelter Lab: “Seeing orange: breeding convict cichlids exhibit heightened aggression against more colorful intruders”

Caleb Anderson, Ryan Jones, Michelle Moscicki, Ethan Clotfelter, and Ryan Earley

2016. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 70: 647-657. 10.1007/s00265-016-2085-3

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The GEP: Crowd-Sourcing Big Data Analysis with Undergraduates

Students in the 2009-2011 Biology 191 courses contributed to the annotation part of this project.

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Clotfelter Lab: “Dietary carotenoids and bacterial infection in wild and domestic convict cichlids (Amatitlania spp.)”

Alexandria C. Brown, Matthew D. Cahn’13, Sara Choi’13, and Ethan D. Clotfelter

2016. Environmental Biology of Fishes 99: 439-449. 10.1007/s10641-016-0485-x

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Trapani Lab: “Natural Bizbenzoquinoline Derivatives Protect Zebrafish Lateral Line Sensory Hair Cells from Aminoglycoside Toxicity”

Matthew Kruger, Robert Boney, Alexander J. Ordoobadi’15, Thomas F. Sommers’16, Josef G. Trapani & Allison B. Coffin

March 2016. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

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Graf Lab: “Rab3-GEF Controls Active Zone Development at the Drosophila Neuromuscular Junction”

Haneui Bae, Shirui Chen, John P. Roche, Minrong Ai, Chunlai Wu, Aaron DiAntonio, & Ethan R. Graf

eNeuro, March/April 2016, 3(2) e0031-16.2016, 1-19

Loss of rab3-GEF results in a phenotype indistinguishable from the rab3 mutant.

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Poccia Lab: A Sea Urchin Cell-Free System to Study Male Pronuclear Assembly and Activation

Poccia, D.L. (2016) A Sea Urchin Cell-Free System to Study Male Pronuclear Assembly and Activation.
Int. J. Dev. Biol. 60: 209-219.

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Poccia Lab: The Use of Two-Photon FRET-FLIM to Study Protein Interactions during Nuclear Envelope Fusion in vivo and in vitro

Byrne, R.D., Larijani, B. and Poccia, D.L.

2016 Methods in Molecular Biology 1411: in press.
In, The Nuclear Envelope: Methods and Protocols

FRET–FLIM techniques have wide application in the study of protein and protein–lipid interactions in cells.

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Miller Lab: Correlated polymorphism in cytotype and sexual system within a monophyletic species, Lycium californicum

JS Miller, A Kamath'11, BC Husband, RA Levin

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Hood Lab: Distribution and population structure of the anther-smut fungus Microbotryum silenes-acaulis parasitizing an arctic-alpine plant

Bueker, B., Eberlein, C., Gladieux, P., Schaefer, A., Snirc, A., Bennett, D. J. Begerow, D., Hood, M. E., and Giraud, T.

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