Structural
analysis and engineering of DNA binding proteins and
recombination enzymes DNA repair
and mutagenesis in the higher plant
Arabidopsis Mechanism
and modulation of homologous chromosome interactions using
budding yeast DNA repair
in Drosophila Mechanisms
and regulation of transcription in eukaryotic
cells Organization
and function of repetitive sequences in the
"compact" Meiotic
homologyrecognition and recombination in wheat; structure
and evolution of wheat transcriptome Mechanism
and regulation of recombinational DNA repair Recombination
of homologous chromosomes during meiosis Biochemical
and genetic analysis of the kinetochore Advanced
fluorescent imaging technologies for the investigation of
chromosome dynamics and nuclear organization in human
genetics feline
disease and trait mapping Mechanisms
that govern the organization and transmission of
mitochondria and mitochondrial
DNA Control of
transcription by nuclear receptors in normal and cancer
cells Role of
human Alu repeats in development; germ line
methylation Mitotic
motors in the Drosophila embryo Chromosome
dynamics in Myxococcus Xanthus Stress
signal transduction pathway to the nucleus Structural
biology of proteins regulating the cell cycle BMB, BPH,
CHEM
Molecular mechanism of genetic recombination; Biochemistry of DNA helicases
Domestic animal (cat, dog, horse) and primate genetic map construction,
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Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (BMB)
Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB)
Chemistry (CHEM)
UC Davis Recombination-Repair Club
Conifer Compartive Genomics Project
Molecular Genetics Seminar Series-2000
Images from ANG101 (Animal Cytogenetics; ppt file)
Division of Biological Sciences
College of Agriculture and Environmental Science
© 2000 by S. M. Burgess -Section of Molecular and Cellular Biology, UC Davis (smburgess@ucdavis.edu)