Animal Genetics

BIOGRAPHY

ACADEMIC POSITIONS:
• Principal Investigator: The Sullivan Laboratory, Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California at Santa Cruz
• Professor: Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California at Santa Cruz

EDUCATION:
BA, University of California, San Diego
PhD, University of Washington, Seattle

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Our research focuses on the structural and regulatory mechanisms that drive cell division. Much of our effort has been directed toward understanding the mechanisms that drive furrow invagination during cytokinesis and how this process is regulated with respect to other mitotic events. A second related focus of our group is to understand the mechanisms by which the widespread bacterial endosymbiont Wolbachia alters core host cellular processes to ensure its successful vertical transmission in insects.