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DEPARTMENTAL NEWS

1. Researchers in the  laboratory of Microbiology professor, Neil Hunter, have identified the molecular tools that cut DNA to make crossovers during meiosis, the process that produces sperm and eggs. 
   

2. Eric Mann is the recipient of the 2012 Excellence in Teaching Award by the Academic Federation of The University of California, Davis. This is the highest recognition of teaching excellence for members of the Academic Federation.
   

3. Stephen Kowalczykowski and postdoctoral researcher Anthony Forget describe how a short piece of DNA finds its match on a small genome in the Feb. 8th journal of Nature.
   

4. Wolf-Dietrich Heyer has been elected to the American Academy of Microbiology, the honorific group within the American Society for Microbiology.
   

5. Scott Dawson has been recently promoted to Associate Professor.
   

6. Neil Hunter has been promoted to full Professor.
   

7. Lifeng Xu was awarded a 4 year American Cancer Society grant to determine how some tumor cells remain immortal without the presence of telomerase. More details can be found in this news article from the UC Davis Health System.
   

8. Wolf-Dietrich Heyer and Stephen Kowalczykowski were awarded the 2011 CBS Faculty Research Award.
   

9. Wolf-Dietrich Heyer was recently selected to receive the 2011 Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduate Research.
   

10.   Valley Stewart was recently awarded the 2010 Jack Kenny Award for Outstanding Service on the Editorial Board (Journal of Bacteriology).
    

Recent Departmental Publications

1. •Dawson, S.C. (2011) Primary MT structures in Giardia. In Giardia. Eds. Hugo Lujan and Staffan Svard (In press).
   

1. •Schwartz, E. and Heyer, W.-D. (2011). Processing of joint molecule intermediates by structure-selective endonucleases during homologous recombination in eukaryotes. Chromosoma 120:109-127.
   

1. •Joh, L.D., Rezaei F., Parales, J.V., Parales, R.E., Barabote, R.D., Berry, A.M., and VanderGheynst, J.S. (2011). Effects of phenolic monomers on growth of Acidothermus cellulolyticus. Biotechnol. Prog. 27:23-31.
   

1. •Ceballos, S.J. and Heyer, W.-D. (2011). Functions of the Snf2/Swi2 family Rad54 motor protein in homologous recombination. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1809, 509-523.
   

1. •Ju, K.-S. and Parales, R.E. (2011). Evolution of a new bacterial pathway for 4-nitrotoluene degradation. Mol. Microbiol. 82:355-364.
   

1. •Liu, J., Ehmsen, K.T., Heyer, W.-D., and Morrical, S. (2011). Presynaptic filament dynamics in homologous recombination and DNA repair. Critical Reviews in Biochem. & Mol. Biol. 46, 240-270.
   

1. •Sales, S.M., Mahendra, S., Grostern, A., Parales, R.E., Goodwin, L., Woyke, T., Nolan, M., Lapidus, A., Chertov, O., Ovchinnikova, G., Szcyrba, A., and Alvarez-Cohen, L. (2011). Genome sequence of 1,4-dioxane-degrading Pseudonocardia dioxanivorans strain CB1190. J.Bactiol 193:4549-4550.
   

1. •Zakharyevich K, Ma Y, Tang S, Hwang PY, Boiteux S, Hunter N. (2010). Temporally and biochemically distinct activities of Exo1 during meiosis: double-strand break resection and resolution of double holliday junctions. Mol Cell 40(6); 1001-15.
   

2. •Cejka, P., Cannavo, E., Polaczek, P., Masuda-Sasa, T., Pokharel, S., Campbell, J.L., and Kowalczykowski, S.C. (2010). DNA end resection by Dna2-Sgs1-RPA and its stimulation by Top3-Rmi1 and Mre11-Rad50-Xrs2. Nature, 467, 112-116
   

>All Recent Departmental Publications

Recent Awards/Fellowships

1. •Becky Fu (Heyer Lab), University of California, President’s Undergraduate Fellowship