Matt Jevit| 2019 GGSA Travel Award| Attended the ISOCARD 2019 (International Society of Camelid Research and Development) in Laayoune, Morocco;;
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Joseph Dubie| 2019 GGSA Travel Award| Attended the SMBE 2019 in Manchester,UK. He presented a poster titled: “The Conflict Within: Origin, Proliferation, and Persistence of a Spontaneously Arising Selfish Mitochondrial Genome”;;
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Kevin Brendemeyer| 2019 GGSA Travel Award| Attended the 10th International Conference on Canine and Feline Genetics and Genomics 2019 in Bern, Switzerland. He presented a talk titled: “DXZ4 and its role in MSCI and hybrid sterility.”;;
Jonathon Leach| 2019 GGSA Travel Award| Attended the 2019 Gordon Research Conference in Mammary Gland Biology in Newry, Maine. He presented a poster titled: “Effect of Singleminded2s on Metabolic Homeostasis in the Mouse Mammary Gland”;;
Michelle Jonika| 2019 GGSA Travel Award| Attended the Evolution 2019 Conference in Providence, Rhode Island in June 2019. She presented a talk titled: “Mode and Tempo of Microsatellite Evolution Across 300 Million Years of Divergence.”;;
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Lily Sanchez| 2019 GGSA Travel Award| Attended the 2019 Gordon Research Conference in Mammary Gland Biology in Newry, Maine from June 9-14, 2019. She presented a poster titled “Singleminded2s Connects Mitochondrial Dynamics and Mammary Epithelial Cell Differentiation.”;;
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Rebecca Booth| 2019 GGSA Travel Award| Rebecca attended the Society For Biomaterials Annual Meeting in Seattle, WA from April 3-6, 2019. She presented a poster titled “DNA delivery to cells by Ultrabithorax protein-based materials.”;;
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Gabriela Mendes| 2019 GGSA Travel Award| Gabriela attended the Society For Biomaterials 2019 Annual Meeting & Exposition in Seattle, WA in April 2019. She presented an oral presentation”Engineering Ubx-based Materials to Promote and Guide Neovascularization”;;
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Jennifer Jung| 2019 GGSA Travel Award| Jennifer attended the 30th Fungal Genetics Conference at Pacific Grove, CA organized by GSA – Genetics Society of America in March 2019. She presented a poster entitled: “A clock-regulated transcription factor network controls the phase of ADV-1 and its downstream clock-controlled genes”;;
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Jonathan Leach| |2019 Student Choice Award for Teaching;;
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Timothy Sveegen| |Teaching Excellence Award;;
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Matt Jevit| |Award for most participative and supportive GENE Student;;
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Tejas Karhadkar| Research Excellence Award| 1st Place;;
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Ben Greenwell| Research Excellence Award| 2nd Place;;
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David Forgas|Travel Award|College of VetMed to attend 2019 Plant and Animal Genome Conference;;
Caitlin Curry|Travel Award|College of VetMed to attend 2019 Plant and Animal Genome Conference;;
Kristin Scoggin|Scholarship Recipient|International Mammalian Genome Society;;
Rebecca Booth|Fellowship Recipient|2018 GENE Fellows Program;;
Caitlin Curry|Fellowship Recipient|2018 GENE Fellows Program;;
Diana Medina|Fellowship Recipient|2018 GENE Fellows Program;;
Joseph Modarelli|Fellowship Recipient|2018 GENE Fellows Program;;
Ben Greenwell|Awardee|Merit Award, Society for Research on Biological Rhythms;;
Samantha Iiams|Awardee|Excellence Award for Physiology, Society for Research on Biological Rhythms;;
Andrew “Collin” Osborne|Awardee|Award for Teaching Excellence, 2018 Genetics Recruitment Symposium;;
Kathryn “Casey” Pflug|Awardee|Student Choice Award for Teaching, 2018 Genetics Recruitment Symposium;;
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Miguel Gonzales|Fellowship Recipient|NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, 2017;;
Wesley Brashear|Fellowship Recipient|2017 Genetics Summer Fellowship;;
David Forgacs|Fellowship Recipient|2017 Genetics Summer Fellowship;;
Ramesh Gunaratna|Fellowship Recipient|2017 Genetics Summer Fellowship;;
Scott Pearson|Fellowship Recipient|2017 Genetics Summer Fellowship;;
Carolina Rojas|Fellowship Recipient|2017 Genetics Summer Fellowship;;
Alexandra Trott|Fellowship Recipient|2017 Genetics Summer Fellowship;;
Caitlin Curry|Award Recipient|High Impact Achievement Award, College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, 2017;;
Caitlin Curry|Award Recipient|Dan L. Duncan Scholarship for Animal Conservation presented by Houston Safari Club, 2017;;
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Meetings and Presentations | ||
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Luis DeSantiago | Invited Speaker | Plant and Animal Genome XXVII Conference |
Luis DeSantiago | 1st place Graduate Student Oral Presentation | 2019 Beltwide Cotton Improvement Conference |
Luis (center) among other graduate student winners. | ||
Samantha Iiams | Poster Competition Winner | Best Poster Award, Texas Society for Circadian Biology and Medicine Meeting 2018 |
Rebecca Booth | Poster Competition Winner | Best Poster Award, Graduate Category, 45th Annual Texas Genetics Society Meeting |
Elyssa Garza | Poster Competition Winner | 1st Place, TAMU DNA Day |
Caitlin Curry | Poster Competition Winner | 2nd Place, TAMU DNA Day |
Jessica Elswood | Flash Talk | 1st Place, 2018 Genetics Recruitment Symposium |
Samantha Iiams | Flash Talk | 2nd Place & People's Choice, 2018 Genetics Recruitment Symposium |
Caitlin Curry | Flash Talk | 3rd Place tie, 2018 Genetics Recruitment Symposium |
Carolina Rojas | Flash Talk | 3rd Place tie, 2018 Genetics Recruitment Symposium |
Heather Eggleston | Poster | 1st Place, 2018 Genetics Recruitment Symposium |
Rebecca Booth | Poster | 2nd Place, 2018 Genetics Recruitment Symposium |
Diana Medina | Poster | 3rd Place, 2018 Genetics Recruitment Symposium |
Alexandra Trott | Poster | People's Choice, 2018 Genetics Recruitment Symposium |
Caitlin Curry | Invited Speaker | Population and Conservation Genomics Workshop, Plant and Animal Genome XXVI Conference |
Matt Jevit | Invited Speaker | Camelids Workshop, Plant and Animal Genome XXVI Conference |
Luis DeSantiago | 2nd place Graduate Student Oral Presentation | 2017 Beltwide Cotton Improvement Conference |
Kathy Scienski | Invited Speaker | Karmowski Ranch in Radzicz, Poland on July 25, 2017: Read more |
Samantha Iiams | Poster | Best Pre-Prelim Student Poster, 2017 Biology Student Post-Doc Research Conference |
Alexandra Trott | Poster | Best Post-Prelim Student Poster, 2017 Biology Student Post-Doc Research Conference |
Camille Duran | Poster | 1st Place, Health Sciences, 2017 TAMU Student Research Week |
Hilary Scott | Flash Talk | People's Choice, 2017 Genetics Recruitment Symposium |
Camille Duran | Flash Talk | 1st Place, 2017 Genetics Recruitment Symposium |
Alexandra Trott | Flash Talk | 2nd Place, 2017 Genetics Recruitment Symposium |
Jessica Elswood | Flash Talk | 3rd Place tie, 2017 Genetics Recruitment Symposium |
Scott Pearson | Flash Talk | 3rd Place tie, 2017 Genetics Recruitment Symposium |
Scott Pearson | Poster | People's Choice, 2017 Genetics Recruitment Symposium |
Kathy Scienski | Poster | 1st Place, 2017 Genetics Recruitment Symposium |
Camille Duran | Poster | 2nd Place, 2017 Genetics Recruitment Symposium |
Jessica Elswood | Poster | 3rd Place, 2017 Genetics Recruitment Symposium |
Jessica Elswood | Poster | 2nd Place & People’s Choice, 2017 CVM Graduate Student & Postdoc Research Symposium, Graduate Student Poster Presentation |
Ramesh Gunaratna | Competition | Finalist, 2017 TAMU 3 Minute Thesis |
Samantha Fletcher | Oral Presentation | 1st Place, 13th Annual Pathways Student Research Symposium, Doctoral Oral Overall & Doctoral Life Sciences Oral |
Meghan Kinder | Oral Presentation | 2nd Place, 13th Annual Pathways Student Research Symposium, Doctoral Oral Overall & Doctoral Life Sciences Oral |
Wes Brashear | Poster | 3rd Place, TIGSS Annual Symposium 2016, Sex & Gender Category |
Alexandra Trott | Poster | 1st Place, TIGSS Annual Symposium 2016, Genetics & Genomics Category |
Camille Duran | Poster | 2nd Place, TIGSS Annual Symposium 2016, Genetics & Genomics Category |
Carolina Mantilla Rojas | Poster | 3rd Place, TIGSS Annual Symposium 2016, Genetics & Genomics Category |
Kathy Scienski | Symposium Speaker | 2nd Place Oral Presentation, VIIth International Scientific Symposium: Read more… |
Reed Stubbendieck | Poster | 1st Place, 2016 Molecular Genetics of Bacteria and Phage Meeting |
Selected Publications | |||
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Joshua Meehan | Author | 2020 | Site-specific and mRNA-specific control of accurate mRNA editing by a helicase complex in trypanosomes. RNA. 2020 |
Samantha Iiams | Author | 2020 | Monarch Butterfly Migration Moving into the Genetic Era. Cell: Trends in Genetics. 2020 |
Diana Medina | First Author | 2020 | The intergenic small non-coding RNA ittA is required for optimal infectivity and tissue tropism in Borrelia burgdorferi. PLOS Pathogens. 2020 |
Luis De Santiago | Author | 2020 | Genomic diversifications of five Gossypium allopolyploid species and their impact on cotton improvement. Nature Genetics. 2020 |
Yue Xing | First Author | 2020 | SECNVs: A simulator of Copy Number Variants and Whole-Exome Sequences from Reference Genomes. Frontiers. 2020 |
Caitlin Curry | First Author | 2019 | Development of Lion MiniSTRs for Use with Modern and Historical DNA Samples. African Journal of Wildlife Research. 2019. |
Caitlin Curry | First Author | 2019 | Genetic Analysis of African Lions in Zambia Support Movement across Anthropogenic and Geological Barriers. PLoS ONE. 2019 |
David Forgacs | First Author | 2019 | Evaluation of fecal samples as a valid source of DNA by comparing paired blood and fecal samples from American bison (Bison bison). BMC Genetics. 2019. |
Joseph Dubie | First Author | 2019 | The conflict within: origin, proliferation and persistence of a spontaneously arising selfish mitochondrial genome. Royal Society Publishing. 2019. |
Kelsi West | First Author | 2019 | The Splicing Factor hnRNP M Is a Critical Regulator of Innate Immune Gene Expression in Macrophages. Cell Reports. 2019. |
Samantha Iiams | First Author | 2019 | Photoperiodic and clock regulation of the vitamin A pathway in the brain mediates seasonal responsiveness in the monarch butterfly. PNAS. 2019. |
Ben Greenwell | First Author | 2019 | Rhythmic Food Intake Drives Rhythmic Gene Expression More Potently than the Hepatic Circadian Clock in Mice. Cell Reports. 2019. |
Selene Howe | Co-author | 2019 | Chronic exposure to e-cig aerosols during early development causes vascular dysfunction and offspring growth deficits. Transl Res. 2019. |
Wesley Brashear | Co-author | 2018 | Horse Y chromosome assembly displays unique evolutionary features and putative stallion fertility genes. Nat Commun. 2018. |
Wesley Brashear | First author | 2018 | Evoultionary conservation of Y chromosome ampliconic gene families despite extensive structural variation. Genome Res. 2018 Dec; 28(12);1841-1851. |
Gabriela Mendes & Rebecca Booth | First & Co-author | 2018 | Generating novel materials using the intrinsically disordered protein Ubx. Methods Enzymol. 2018. |
Carolina Mancillas Rojas | Co-author | 2018 | Improving metabolic health through precision dietetics in mice. Genetics. 2018. |
Rebecca Booth | Co-author | 2018 | Evolution of the activation domain in a Hox transcription factor. Int J Dev Biol. 2018. |
Angelina Bernardini | Co-author | 2018 | Book Chapter in Insect Genomics: Methods and Protocols, Genome Size Estimation and Quantitative Cytogenetics in Insects |
Scott Pearson & Jessica Elswood | First &Co-author | 2018 | ATM-dependent activation of SIM2s regulates homologous recombination and epithelial-mesenchymal transition. Oncogene. 2018 Dec 10. doi: 10.1038/s41388-018-0622-4 |
Alexandra Trott&Ben Greenwell | First&Co-author | 2018 | Regulation of circadian clock transcriptional output by CLOCK:BMAL1. PLos Genet. 2018 Jan4; 14(1):e1007156. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1007156. eCollection 2018 Jan. |
Elyssa Garza | Co-author | 2017 | Transcriptome signatures of selection, drift, introgression and gene duplication in the evolution of an extremophile endemic plant. Genome Biol Evol. 2017. |
Wesley Brashear | Co-author | 2017 | Annotated draft genome assemblies for the northern bobwhite (Colinus virginianus) and the scaled quail (Callipepla squamata) reveal disparate estimates of modern genome diversity and historic effective population size. G3 (Bethesda). 2017. |
Luis DeSantiago | Co-author | 2017 | Insights into Upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) genetic recombination based on three High-Density SNP and a consensus map developed independently with common parents. Genomics Insights. 2017. https://doi.org/10.1177/ |
Tejas Karhadkar | Co-author | 2017 | Monocyte differentiation and macrophage priming are regulated differentially by pentraxins and their ligands. BMC Immunol. 2017. |
Tejas Karhadkar | First author | 2017 | Sialidase inhibitors attenuate pulmonary fibrosis in a mouse model. Sci Rep. 2017. |
Allison Miller | First author | 2016 | A DNA-binding protein defines the precise region of chromosome capture during Bacillius sporulation. Mol Microbiol. 2016. |
David Forgacs | First author | 2016 | Mitochondrial Genome Analysis Reveals Historical Lineages in Yellowstone Bison. PLoS ONE 11(11): e0166081. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.01660811 |
Caitlin Curry | First author | 2016 | A Century of Conservation Genetics: Comparative study on the African Lion. Applied Biodiversity Science Perspectives Series No. 6. October 2016 |
Reed Stubbendieck & Carol Vargas-Bautista | First & Co-author | 2016 | Bacterial Communities: Interactions to Scale. Front Microbiol. 2016 Aug 8;7:1234. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.01234. eCollection 2016. |
Reed Stubbendieck | First author | 2016 | Multifaceted Interfaces of Bacterial Competition. J Bacteriol. 2016 Jul 28;198(16):2145-55. doi: 10.1128/JB.00275-16. |
Wesley Brashear | Co-author | 2015 | Mechanisms underlying mammalian hybrid sterility in two feline interspecies models. Mol Biol Evol. 2015. |
Cory Thurman | Co-author | 2014 | Structure, activity, and inhibition of the carboxyltransferase β-subunit of acetyl coenzyme A carboxylase (AccD6) from Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2014. |
Cory Thurman | Co-author | 2009 | Structural insights into the mechanism of the allosteric transitions of Mycobacterium tuberculosis cAMP receptor protein. J Biol Chem. 2009. |
Congratulations to Michelle Jonika on her recent publication in MPDI!
Check out her paper -> Mode and Tempo of Microsatellite Evolution across 300 Million Years of Insect Evolution