Department of Biology

The Department of Biology at Emory University supports research and teaching areas and activities that are not represented in other parts of the University. We continue to build and strengthen those areas to provide cutting edge training for our undergraduates, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows and to extend the boundaries of human knowledge and experience. We welcome you to extend your knowledge of us and to experience our department via our web pages. Enjoy!!

Latest Publications

The endonuclease activity of RNase III is required for the regulation of antibiotic production by Streptomyces coelicolor.
Gravenbeek ML, Jones GH.
Microbiology. 2008 Nov;154(Pt 11):3547-55.

The structure-function link of compensated chromatin in Drosophila.
Lucchesi JC.
Curr Opin Genet Dev. 2009 Oct 30. [Epub ahead of print]

Peptide membranes in chemical evolution.
Childers WS, Ni R, Mehta AK, Lynn DG.
Curr Opin Chem Biol. 2009 Oct 28. [Epub ahead of print]

Color tuning in short wavelength-sensitive human and mouse visual pigments: ab initio quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics studies.
Altun A, Yokoyama S, Morokuma K.
J Phys Chem A. 2009 Oct 29;113(43):11685-92.

The CIL-1 PI 5-phosphatase localizes TRP Polycystins to cilia and activates sperm in C. elegans.
Bae YK, Kim E, L'hernault SW, Barr MM.
Curr Biol. 2009 Oct 13;19(19):1599-607. Epub 2009 Sep 24.

Evolutionary replacement of UV vision by violet vision in fish.
Tada T, Altun A, Yokoyama S.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2009 Oct 13;106(41):17457-62. Epub 2009 Sep 28.

HOST-PARASITE GENETIC INTERACTIONS AND VIRULENCE-TRANSMISSION RELATIONSHIPS IN NATURAL POPULATIONS OF MONARCH BUTTERFLIES.
de Roode JC, Altizer S.
Evolution. 2009 Sep 30. [Epub ahead of print]

Editorial: Selected papers from the Second q-bio Conference on Cellular Information Processing.
Nemenman I, Hlavacek WS, Jiang Y, Wall ME.
IET Syst Biol. 2009 Sep;3(5):297. No abstract available.
PMID: 19757872

Genome-wide identification of post-translational modulators of transcription factor activity in human B cells.
Wang K, Saito M, Bisikirska BC, Alvarez MJ, Lim WK, Rajbhandari P, Shen Q, Nemenman I, Basso K, Margolin AA, Klein U, Dalla-Favera R, Califano A.
Nat Biotechnol. 2009 Sep;27(9):829-39. Epub 2009 Sep 9

Primary sequence and epigenetic determinants of in vivo occupancy of genomic DNA by GATA1.
Zhang Y, Wu W, Cheng Y, King DC, Harris RS, Taylor J, Chiaromonte F, Hardison RC.
Nucleic Acids Res. 2009 Sep 18. [Epub ahead of print]

Evolutionary dynamics of rhodopsin type 2 (RH2) opsins in vertebrates.
Yokoyama S, Tada T.
Mol Biol Evol. 2009 Sep 16. [Epub ahead of print]

Insulators as mediators of intra- and inter-chromosomal interactions: a common evolutionary theme.
Ong CT, Corces VG.
J Biol. 2009 Aug 27;8(8):73. [Epub ahead of print]

Strength in numbers: high parasite burdens increase transmission of a protozoan parasite of monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus).
de Roode JC, Chi J, Rarick RM, Altizer S.
Oecologia. 2009 Aug;161(1):67-75. Epub 2009 May 6.

The population and evolutionary dynamics of homologous gene recombination in bacterial populations.
Levin BR, Cornejo OE.
PLoS Genet. 2009 Aug;5(8):e1000601. Epub 2009 Aug 14

Targeted gain-of-function screening in Drosophila using GAL4-UAS and random transposon insertions.
Zhong J, Yedvobnick B.
Genet Res. 2009 Aug;91(4):243-58.

Predictions of phase-locking in excitatory hybrid networks: excitation does not promote phase-locking in pattern-generating networks as reliably as inhibition.
Sieling FH, Canavier CC, Prinz AA.
J Neurophysiol. 2009 Jul;102(1):69-84. Epub 2009 Apr 8.

Chromatin insulators: lessons from the fly.
Gurudatta BV, Corces VG.
Brief Funct Genomic Proteomic. 2009 Jul;8(4):276-82

The genetics and cell biology of spermatogenesis in the nematode C. elegans.
L'Hernault SW.
Mol Cell Endocrinol. 2009 Jul 10;306(1-2):59-65. Epub 2009 Jan 22. Review

Adiabatic coarse-graining and simulations of stochastic biochemical networks.
Sinitsyn NA, Hengartner N, Nemenman I.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2009 Jun 30;106(26):10546-51. Epub 2009 Jun 12

How does maintenance of network activity depend on endogenous dynamics of isolated neurons?
Olypher AV, Calabrese RL.
Neural Comput. 2009 Jun;21(6):1665-82. Erratum in: Neural Comput. 2009 Aug;21(8):2405.

Database analysis of simulated and recorded electrophysiological datasets with PANDORA's toolbox.
Günay C, Edgerton JR, Li S, Sangrey T, Prinz AA, Jaeger D.
Neuroinformatics. 2009 Jun;7(2):93-111. Epub 2009 May 28.

Inhibitory plasticity in a lateral band improves cortical detection of natural vocalizations.
Galindo-Leon EE, Lin FG, Liu RC.
Neuron. 2009 Jun 11;62(5):705-16.

Dissecting natural sensory plasticity: hormones and experience in a maternal context.
Miranda JA, Liu RC.
Hear Res. 2009 Jun;252(1-2):21-8. Epub 2009 May 3. Review.

CTCF: master weaver of the genome.
Phillips JE, Corces VG.
Cell. 2009 Jun 26;137(7):1194-211. Review

Zebrafish development and genetics: introducing undergraduates to developmental biology and genetics in a large introductory laboratory class.
D'Costa A, Shepherd IT.
Zebrafish. 2009 Jun;6(2):169-77.

Three subclasses of a Drosophila insulator show distinct and cell type-specific genomic distributions.
Bushey AM, Ramos E, Corces VG.
Genes Dev. 2009 Jun 1;23(11):1338-50. Epub 2009 May 14.

Sharing the burden: antigen transport and firebreaks in immune responses.
Handel A, Yates A, Pilyugin SS, Antia R.
J R Soc Interface. 2009 May 6;6(34):447-54. Epub 2008 Aug 15.

Characterization of spatial and temporal expression pattern of SCG10 during zebrafish development.
Burzynski GM, Delalande JM, Shepherd I.
Gene Expr Patterns. 2009 Apr;9(4):231-7. Epub 2009 Jan 19.

A C. elegans LSD1 demethylase contributes to germline immortality by reprogramming epigenetic memory.
Katz DJ, Edwards TM, Reinke V, Kelly WG.
Cell. 2009 Apr 17;137(2):308-20.

Functional relationship between bacterial cell density and the efficacy of antibiotics.
Udekwu KI, Parrish N, Ankomah P, Baquero F, Levin BR.
J Antimicrob Chemother. 2009 Apr;63(4):745-57. Epub 2009 Feb 13

Oscillations in continuous culture populations of Streptococcus pneumoniae: population dynamics and the evolution of clonal suicide.
Cornejo OE, Rozen DE, May RM, Levin BR.
Proc Biol Sci. 2009 Mar 22;276(1659):999-1008

Exploring the role of the immune response in preventing antibiotic resistance.
Handel A, Margolis E, Levin BR.
J Theor Biol. 2009 Feb 21;256(4):655-62. Epub 2008 Nov 8

Genetic model system studies of the development of the enteric nervous system, gut motility and Hirschsprung's disease.
Burzynski G, Shepherd IT, Enomoto H.
Neurogastroenterol Motil. 2009 Feb;21(2):113-27. Review.

SPE-39 family proteins interact with the HOPS complex and function in lysosomal delivery.
Zhu GD, Salazar G, Zlatic SA, Fiza B, Doucette MM, Heilman CJ, Levey AI, Faundez V, L'hernault SW.
Mol Biol Cell. 2009 Feb;20(4):1223-40. Epub 2008 Dec 24.

An integrated approach to addressing addiction and depression in college students.
Eisen A, Kushner H, McLeod M, Queen E, Gordon J, Ford JL.
J Am Coll Health. 2009 Jan-Feb;57(4):455-6.

Geobacter sulfurreducens contains separate C- and A-adding tRNA nucleotidyltransferases and a poly(A) polymerase.
Bralley P, Cozad M, Jones GH.
J Bacteriol. 2009 Jan;191(1):109-14. Epub 2008 Oct 24.

Antiviral resistance and the control of pandemic influenza: the roles of stochasticity, evolution and model details.
Handel A, Longini IM Jr, Antia R.
J Theor Biol. 2009 Jan 7;256(1):117-25. Epub 2008 Oct 8.

dlx3b/4b are required for the formation of the preplacodal region and otic placode through local modulation of BMP activity.
Esterberg R, Fritz A.
Dev Biol. 2009 Jan 1;325(1):189-99. Epub 2008 Oct 29.






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