Current Appointments & Affiliations
Associate Professor of the Practice of Biology
·
2018 - Present
Biology,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Recent Publications
Characterization of the tilt (tt) phenotype in Drosophila melanogaster.
Journal Article microPublication biology · January 2023 In the early 20th century, Calvin Bridges and Thomas Morgan identified a number of spontaneous mutations that displayed visible phenotypes in adult flies and subsequent analysis of these mutations over the past century have provided fundamental insights in ... Full text Open Access Citespeck, First Identified in Drosophila melanogaster in 1910, Is Encoded by the Arylalkalamine N-Acetyltransferase (AANAT1) Gene.
Journal Article G3 (Bethesda) · September 2, 2020 The pigmentation mutation speck is a commonly used recombination marker characterized by a darkly pigmented region at the wing hinge. Identified in 1910 by Thomas Hunt Morgan, speck was characterized by Sturtevant as the most "workable" mutant in the right ... Full text Open Access Link to item CiteRetrotransposons Are the Major Contributors to the Expansion of the Drosophila ananassae Muller F Element.
Journal Article G3 (Bethesda) · August 7, 2017 The discordance between genome size and the complexity of eukaryotes can partly be attributed to differences in repeat density. The Muller F element (∼5.2 Mb) is the smallest chromosome in Drosophila melanogaster, but it is substantially larger (>18.7 Mb) ... Full text Open Access Link to item CiteRecent Grants
Modeling the structure & evolution of regulatory regions in eukaryotic genomes
ResearchConsultant · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2007 - 2013View All Grants
Education, Training & Certifications
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign ·
1995
Ph.D.
University of Pittsburgh ·
1989
B.S.