Doctoral Student My name is Ashley Artis and I am a PhD candidate in the Genetics Department under the guidance of Dr. Mary Goll. Broadly, I am interested in how the heterochromatin mark Histone 3 Lysine 9 tri-methylation is established during embryogenesis. For my thesis research, I am interested in pursuing two questions: 1) What are the roles of the Suv39h1 H3K9me3 methyltransferases during early vertebrate development and 2) How are these proteins recruited to specific targets during initial de novo establishment of heterochromatin? Education Education: Norfolk State University 2017-2021 Research Research Areas: Developmental Biology Molecular Genetics Labs (please indicate whose lab you are a member of): Mary Goll Selected Publications Selected Publications: The emerging H3K9me3 chromatin landscape during zebrafish embryogenesis Katherine L. Duval, Ashley R. Artis, Mary Goll PMID: 39166515 doi: 10.1093/genetics/iyae138
