These include several fish projects as well as determining the role of wood debris in contributing to the productivity of the Minnesota River. Sarah is interested in small mammal terrestrial ecology. She has specifically focused on the habitat associations of both common and rare small mammals. His graduate work involved RNA methylation in tumors of fern gametophytes and he would like to continue this work with students. His post-doctoral work involved RNA characterization in rat liver tumors.
Current research involves students in a study of adhesion and metastasis of mouse melanoma.
I am interested in gene expression and how gene expression is regulated. We are using ribosomal protein genes of the plant Arabidopsis thaliana in our investigations. All three types of ribosomes contain a unique set of proteins, mostly encoded by genes within the nucleus of the cell. The genes encoding cytosolic ribosomal proteins are coordinately regulated, i.e. turned on and off together, in many organisms. In plants, many of the ribosomal proteins are encoded by families of genes.