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Laura A. Katz Lead PI



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Smith College  

Department of Biological Sciences
Smith College
Northampton , MA 01063

LKatz@Smith.edu
  Homepage: http://www.science.smith.edu/departments/Biology/lkatz/

Research Interests:

 
 
Research in my laboratory is currently focused on four aspects of the evolution of eukaryotic microbes:
(1) reconstructing the eukaryotic tree of life
(2) characterizing genome evolution in ciliates
(3) using multiple genes to assess evolutionary relationships among ciliates
(4) analyzing phylogeography of coastal oligotrich and choreotrich ciliates

We use a combination of molecular and morphological tools to address these questions.

     
Representative Publications:

 
 


Snoeyenbos-West, O.L.O., A. Campbell, J. Cole, D.W. Coats and L.A. Katz. 2004. Molecular phylogeny of phyllopharyngean ciliates and their group I introns. J. Eukaryot. Microbiol. 51: 441-450.

Katz, L.A. , E. Lasek-Nesselquist, J. Bornstein and S.V. Muse. 2004. Dramatic diversity of histone H4 sequences in ciliates. Mol. Biol. Evol. 21 : 555-562.

McGrath, C. and L.A. Katz. 2004. Genome diversity in microbial eukaryotes. Trends Ecol. Evol. 19: 32-38.

Katz, L.A. , E. Lasek-Nesselquist and O.L.O. Snoeyenbos-West. 2003. Structure of the micronuclear a -tubulin gene in the phyllopharyngean ciliate Chilodonella uncinata : implications for the evolution of chromosomal processing. Gene 315: 15-19.

Snoeyenbos-West, O.L.O., *Salcedo, T., G.B. McManus and L.A. Katz. 2002. Insights into the diversity of choreotrich and oligotrich ciliates (Class: Spirotrichea) based on genealogical analyses of multiple loci. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Micro. 52 : 1901-1913.