Genetics Colloquium

Zak Lemmon (John Doebley’s student)

Multiple Independent QTL on Chromosome Five of Zea mays Contribute to Domestication

Laura Shannon (John Doebley’s student)

Out of Mexico: Changes in ZmGHD7 expression created flexibility in photoperiod response and allowed for the spread of maize into temperate regions

Ryan Haasl (Bret Payseur’s student)

A history of mutation and natural selection at a microsatellite of the human glutamate receptor subunit GRIN2B.

Beth Buckley (Scott Kennedy’s student)

RNAi inheritance: To inFINNity and beyond

Ali Soukup (Nancy Keller’s student)

Suppressor mutagenesis reveals EsaA as regulator of secondary metabolism

Hongda Li (Qiang Chang’s student)

Loss of Activity-Induced Phosphorylation of MeCP2 Enhances Synaptogenesis and Spatial Memory

Yunsik Kang (Arash Bashirullah’s student)

Resistance to Apoptosis is Regulated During Drosophila Development

John Herriges (Xin Sun’s student)

Examining the role of Etv4;5 in branching morphogenesis and postnatal lung development

Sarah Marsh (Cameron Currie’s student)

Fungus-Growing Ant Genomics: A comparative approach

Drew Hasley (Francisco Pelegri’s student)

Why Divide That Way?: Discovering controls of early cleavage in the Zebrafish embryo

Emily Cunningham Williams (Qiang Chang’s student)

Development of a patient derived iPSC system to elucidate cell-autonomous and non-cell-autonomous mechanisms in Rett syndrome

Aaron Lomax (Rick Vierstra’s student)

Functional Characterization of Autophagy Related Proteins in Arabidopsis thaliana

Nick Gladman (Rick Vierstra’s student)

The Function and Regulation of the 26S Proteasome in Arabidopsis

Robb Stankey (Rick Vierstra’s student)

The properties and regulation of phytochrome in Arabidopsis thaliana and parallels to bacterial phytochromes