REU Mentors & Their Research Projects

JONATHAN ARNOLD (Genetics) – systems biology of the biological clock

arnold@uga.edu

MARIN T. BREWER (Plant Pathology) – Evolution and genetics of plant pathogenic fungi.

mtbrewer@uga.edu

MELISSA DAVIS (Genetics) – Translational (Basic Science to Clinical) Medical Oncology and Medical Education.

mbdavis@uga.edu

KELLY DAWE (Genetics) - Cytogenetics of chromosome movement

Kelly@plantbio.uga.edu

KELLY DYER (Genetics) – Drosophila speciation and adaptation.

kdyer@uga.edu

DAVID J. GARFINKEL (Biochemistry). Retrovirus-like transposon in budding yeast, RNA-interference, and genome stability.

djgarf@bmb.uga.edu

TONY GLYNN (USDA) – Fungal genomics of grass endophytes

aglenn@saa.ars.usda.gov

SCOTT GOLD (Plant Pathology) – Fusarium and biological control of mycotoxins

sgold@uga.edu

JUAN GUTIERREZ (Mathematics and Institute of Bioinformatics) – systems biology of malaria

jgutierr@uga.edu

DAVID HALL (Genetics) – mathematical models of evolution and experimental evolution in yeast.

davehall@uga.edu

NATARAJAN KANNAN (Biochemistry and Institute of Bioinformatics). Evolutionary systems biology, comparative genomics, protein structure, function and evolution.

kannan@bmb.uga.edu

SIDNEY KUSHNER (Genetics) - mRNA stability in E. coli.

skushner@uga.edu

ZACHARY LEWIS (Microbiology) – Chromatin structure and function in Neurospora crassa.

zlewis@uga.edu

MICHAEL MCEACHERN (Genetics) - Telomeres, cancer and yeast

mjm@uga.edu

RICHARD B. MEAGHER (Genetics) Molecular and Evolutionary genetics of gene families and phytoremediation.

meagher@uga.edu

ALLEN MOORE (Genetics) – Behavioral genetics of parenting in a beetle

ajmoore@uga.edu

JAN MRAZEK (Microbiology & Institute of Bioinformatics) Microbial comparative genomics, prokaryotic genome composition and structure.

mrazek@uga.edu

ROBERT SABATINI (Biochemistry) - Molecular biology and biochemistry of parasites

rsabatini@bmb.uga.edu

BERND SCHÜTTLER (Physics)- Modeling and identification of biological circuits in Neurospora

hbs@physast.uga.edu

ANDREA SWEIGART (Genetics)- Adaptation and speciation in plants

sweigart@uga.edu

THIAB TAHA (Computer Science) – Computational circuit models as systems of differential equations.

thiab@cs.uga.edu

MICHAEL TERNS (Biochemistry) – small-RNA based immunity to viruses

mterns@bmb.uga.edu

CHUNG-JUI TSAI (Genetics). functional genomics of phenolic metabolism

cjtsai@warnell.uga.edu

YING XU (Biochemistry)– Systems Biology in Microbes

xyn@bmb.uga.edu

SHAYING ZHAO (Biochemistry and Institute of Bioinformatics) – Comparative genomics of mammals and their epigenetics.

szhao@bmb.uga.edu