Education and work experience:
Post-doc: The Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology; Department of Integrative Evolutionary Biology (Tübingen, Germany)
PhD: Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, The University of Chicago (Chicago, IL)
B.S.: Molecular Biology, Minor in Chemistry: Stetson University (DeLand, FL)
email: michael.werner@utah.edu
Education and work experience:
Lab technician at the University of Utah in Nitin Phadnis's lab, School of Biological Sciences
B.A.: Biochemistry (Honors) & English, magna cum laude, Bowdoin College (Brunswick, ME)
email: thomas.king@utah.edu
Publications:
Werner, M.S., Loschko, T., King, Reich, S., et al. Histone 4 lysine 5/12 acetylation enables developmental plasticity of Pristionchus mouth form. Nat Commun 14, 2095 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37734-z
King TD, Leonard CJ, Cooper JC, Nguyen S, Joyce EF, Phadnis N. (2019) Recurrent losses and rapid evolution of the condensin II complex in insects. Molecular Biology and Evolution 36(10) 2195-2204.
King TD, Johnson JE, Bateman JR. (2019) Position effects influence transvection in Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics 213(4) 1289-1299. (Highlighted in Genetics Spotlight 2019)
Education and work experience:
H.B.S. in Biology, Minor in Mathematics, Magna Cum Laude, University of Utah
Mentor and curriculum development for the ACCESS Scholars program
REU project award, Department of Mathematics, University of Utah, 2018
Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program Scholar award (UROP), University of Utah
AChemS Award for Undergraduate Research, Association for Chemoreception Sciences, 2020.
NSF Graduat Research Fellowshp (GFRP)
email: audrey.brown@utah.edu
Publications:
Audrey L Brown, Adriaan B Meiborg, Mirita Franz-Wachtel, Boris Macek, Spencer Gordon, Ofer Rog, Cameron J Weadick, Michael S Werner, Characterization of the Pristionchus pacificus “epigenetic toolkit” reveals the evolutionary loss of the histone methyltransferase complex PRC2, Genetics, 2024;, iyae041
Maclary ET, Wauer R, Phillips B, Brown A, Boer EF, Samani AM, et al. (2023) An allelic series at the EDNRB2 locus controls diverse piebalding patterns in the domestic pigeon. PLoS Genet 19(10): e1010880. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010880
Burton S.D., Brown A., Eiting T.P., Youngstrom I.A., Rust T.C., Schmuker M., Wachowiak M. 2022. Mapping odorant sensitivities reveals a sparse but structured representation of olfactory chemical space by sensory input to the mouse olfactory bulb. eLife, 2022; 11:e80470.
Education and work experience:
BS in Biology, Minor in Cinema Studies, Central Michigan University,
email: corrin.hays@utah.edu
Publications:
coming soon!
Education and work experience:
BS in Biology, UC San Marcos, Magna Cum Laude
email: morgan.marcue@utah.edu
Publications:
coming soon!
Laboratory Technician
Education and work experience:
Bachelor's degree in Marine Biology, Bangor University
Master’s degree in Oceanography, University of Southampton
Field research assistant in Paleochori Bay, Milos, Greece, Koh Tao, Thailand and Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica.
email: jack.maley@utah.edu
Publications:
coming soon!
Blue Byrne
Maxim Rassoul-Agha
Thomas Murray
Samantha Tomek
Julie Jung; Current position: Assistant Professor, Weber State (Ogden, Utah). email: juliejung@weber.edu
Shelley Reich; Current position: Assistant Professor, Walla Walla University (College Place, WA). email: shelley.reich@wallawalla.edu
Tobias Loschko; Current position: Technician at the Max Planck Institute of Biology (Tübingen, Germany)
Laika; Current position: in the stars