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Expertise
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Work
Work
With H.M. Salim ’09 and M.C. Negritto, 1+1=3: A Fusion of 2 Enzymes in the Methionine Salvage Pathway of Tetrahymena thermophila Creates a Trifunctional Enzyme That Catalyzes 3 Steps in the Pathway. PLoS Genet 5(10):e1000701, 2009
With M. Adachi ’09, Tandem stop codons in ciliates that reassign stop codons. J Mol Evol. 68(4):424-31, 2009
With N.A. Stover, Using NCBI BLAST. In Current Protocols in Essential Laboratory Techniques, Online supplement. Wiley, 2009
With K. Ring ‘07 and H.M. Salim ’09, “Patterns of Codon Usage in Two Ciliates that Reassign the Genetic Code: Tetrahymena Thermophila and Paramecium Tetraurelia,” Protist, 2008
With H.M. Salim, Factors Influencing Codon Usage Bias in Genomes. J Braz Chem Soc, 19: 257-262, 2008
With M. Möllenbeck, Y. Zhou, F. Jönsson, W.J. Chang, S. Juranek, T.G. Doak, G. Rozenberg, H.J. Lipps, L.F. Landweber, The pathway for detangling a scrambled gene. PLOS ONE, 3(6):e2330, 2008
With K. Ring ’07, “Consequences of Stop Codon Reassignment on Protein Evolution in Ciliates with Alternative Genetic Codes” in Molecular Biology and Evolution 25(1), pp. 179-86, 2008
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Education
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Awards & Honors
Awards & Honors
National Science Foundation, Research in Undergraduate Institutions Grant, $211,397 over 3 years, for the project: “Detection and Analysis of Fused Genes in Eukaryotic Genomes,” 2009