Pliny Smith
Education
PhD, Biology, University of Missouri-Columbia
BA, Biology, Grinnell College
Selected Publications
PAN-1, a P-granule component important for C. elegans fertility, has dual roles in the germline and soma (Developmental Biology, 2012)
Multiple phenotypes resulting from a mutagenesis screen for pharynx muscle mutations in Caenorhabditis elegans (PLoS One, 2011)
PHA-4/FoxA cooperates with the NuRD complex and TAM-1/TRIM to regulate cell fate restriction in the C. elegans foregut (Developmental Biology, 2007)
Role of T Box gene tbx-2 for anterior foregut muscle development in C. elegans (Developmental Biology, 2007)
The GLHs, C. elegans P granule proteins, associate with CSN-5 and KGB-1, proteins necessary for fertility, as well as with ZYX-1, a predicted cytoskeletal protein (Developmental Biology, 2002)
Combinatorial RNA interference indicates P granule components GLH-1 and GLH-4 are critical for fertility in C. elegans (Development, 2000)
Selected Presentations
The search for mutant alleles affecting pharynx in the model organism: C. elegans, Society for Developmental Biology Annual Meeting / Poster, 2011
EUKARYON: an undergraduate scholarship journal that supports inquiry-based pedagogy &strengthens a community of undergraduate scholars, Society for Developmental Biology Annual Meeting / Poster, 2011
C. elegans mutants with the short and the disorganized pharynx phenotypes, Society for Developmental Biology Annual Meeting / Poster, 2010
Two sets of C. elegans mutants: the short and the amorphous pharynx phenotypes, Society for Developmental Biology Annual Meeting / Poster, 2009
EUKARYON: The use of an undergraduate scholarship journals strengthen inquiry-based pedagogy and a community of undergraduate scholars, Society for Developmental Biology Annual Meeting / Poster, 2009
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