VCU Bioinformatics and Bioengineering Summer Institute
Virginia Commonwealth University
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Michiko Kato
  Home Institution
  Virginia Commonwealth University
  Richmond, Virginia
  E-mail: humphreymk@vcu.edu

  Home mentor
  Jeff Elhai
  Dept. of Biology
  E-mail: ElhaiJ@vcu.edu
VCU Lab
Life Science Building Rm.343
Dept. of Biology
Tel: (804)828-0821

VCU mentor
Jeff Elhai
E-mail: ElhaiJ@vcu.edu

Research Proposals

Summer 2005
Academic Year 2005-2006
Summer 2006
Final Report

Research Presentations (Summer 2005)
Research article presentation (July 12, 2005)

Koll F, Boulay J, Belcour L, d'Aubenton-Carafa Y.
Contribution of ultra-short invasive elements to the evolution of the mitochondrial genome in the genus Podospora.
  Nucl Acids Res 24:1734-1741(1996)

3rd Annual VCU-BBSI Closing Symposium(8 August 2005)

"The Origin and Propagation of Small Repetitive Elements in Cyanobacteria"


Research Presentations (Summer 2006)
Research article presentation (June 15, 2006)

Espeli O, Moulin L, Boccard F.
Transcription attenuation associated with bacterial repetitive extragenic BIME elements.
  Journal of Molecular Biology 314:375-386(2001)

Research presentation (July 11, 2006)
Short Dispersed Repeats - How do they sneak in?


Prior research
Potential Role of dmtB-trpD2 intergenic RNA in the regulation of heterocyst formation in Anabaena sp. PCC 7120 (Progress Report: Spring 2005)

Home mentor's research interests

  • Repetitive DNA sequences
  • Heterocyst formation in cyanobacteria
  • Nostoc symbiosis
  • BioBIKE










Last updated 2006 August 9th

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