Alumni Publications and Presentations

The Biology Department at Muhlenberg College encourages our students to become actively engaged in research. Graduates from the Biology Department have gone on to Ph.D. programs at leading research institutions. Listed below is a sampling of some recent publications by Biology majors that graduated from Muhlenberg.

Selected Recent Alumni Publications
(alumni authors are underlined with graduation year indicated)

Alff PJ ('02), Sen N, Gorbunova E, Gavrilovskaya IN, Mackow ER. (2008) The NY-1 hantavirus Gn cytoplasmic tail coprecipitates TRAF3 and inhibits cellular interferon responses by disrupting TBK1-TRAF3 complex formation. J Virol. 82(18):9115-22.

McGuire KL ('02), Henkel TW, Granzow de la Cerda I, Villa G, Edmund F, Andrew C. (2008) Dual mycorrhizal colonization of forest-dominating tropical trees and the mycorrhizal status of non-dominant tree and liana species. Mycorrhiza. 18(4):217-22.

Tanis JE ('02), Moresco JJ, Lindquist RA, Koelle MR. (2008) Regulation of serotonin biosynthesis by the G proteins Galphao and Galphaq controls serotonin signaling in Caenorhabditis elegans. Genetics. 178(1):157-69.

Smith EL ('02), Schuchman EH. (2008) Acid sphingomyelinase overexpression enhances the antineoplastic effects of irradiation in vitro and in vivo. Mol Ther. (9):1565-71.

Sandrow HR ('02), Shumsky JS, Amin A, Houle JD. (2008) Aspiration of a cervical spinal contusion injury in preparation for delayed peripheral nerve grafting does not impair forelimb behavior or axon regeneration.  Exp Neurol. 210(2):489-500.

Stehman SA ('02), Chen Y, McKenney RJ, Vallee RB. (2007) NudE and NudEL are required for mitotic progression and are involved in dynein recruitment to kinetochores.
J Cell Biol. 178(4):583-94.

Steets JA ('00), Wolf DE, Auld JR, Ashman TL. (2007) The role of natural enemies in the expression and evolution of mixed mating in hermaphroditic plants and animals. Evolution. 61(9):2043-55.

Holbert MA, Sikorski T, Carten J, Snowflack D ('03), Hodawadekar S, Marmorstein R. (2007) The human monocytic leukemia zinc finger histone acetyltransferase domain contains DNA-binding activity implicated in chromatin targeting. J Biol Chem. 282(50):36603-13.

Wingert RA ('99), Selleck R, Yu J, Song HD, Chen Z, Song A, Zhou Y, Thisse B, Thisse C, McMahon AP, Davidson AJ. (2007) The cdx genes and retinoic acid control the positioning and segmentation of the zebrafish pronephros. PLoS Genet. 3(10):1922-38.

Steets JA ('00), Hamrick JL, Ashman TL. (2006) Consequences of vegetative herbivory for maintenance of intermediate outcrossing in an annual plant. Ecology.87 (11):2717-27.

Wingert RA ('99), Galloway JL, Barut B, Foott H, Fraenkel P, Axe JL ('01), Weber GJ, Dooley K, Davidson AJ, Schmidt B, Paw BH, Shaw GC, Kingsley P, Palis J, Schubert H, Chen O, Kaplan J, Zon LI ('79); Tubingen 2000 Screen Consortium (2005) Deficiency of glutaredoxin 5 reveals Fe-S clusters are required for vertebrate haem synthesis. Nature 436:1035-39.

Johnson, S., H. Grosshans, J. Shingar, M. Byrom, R. Jarvis, A. Cheng, E. Labourier, K. L. Reinert ('02), D. Brown, and F. J. Slack (2005) RAS is regulated by the let-7 microRNA family. Cell 120:635-647.

Kohrt HE ('00), Shu CT, Stuge TB, Holmes SP, Weber J, Lee PP (2005) Rapid assessment of recognition efficiency and functional capacity of antigen-specific T-cell responses. J Immunother 28:297-305.

Ashman, T-L; Knight, TM; Steets, JA ('00); Amarasekare, P; Burd, M; Campbell, DR; Dudash, MR; Johnston, MO; Mazer, SJ; Mitchell, RJ; Morgan, MT; Wilson, WG (2004)  Pollen Limitation of Plant Reproduction: Ecological and Evolutionary Causes and Consequences, Ecology 85:2408-2421.

Garbe D ('98), Doto JB ('01), Sundaram MV (2004) Caenorhabditis elegans lin-35/Rb, efl-1/E2F and other synthetic multivulva genes negatively regulate the anaphase-promoting complex gene mat-3/APC8. Genetics167(2):663-72.