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Paul M Magwene, Assistant Professor of Biology

 

Paul M Magwene

Contact Info:
Office Location:  124 Science Drive
Office Phone:  (919) 613-8159
Email Address: send me a message
Web Page:  http://biology.duke.edu/magwenelab

Teaching (Spring 2012):

  • BIOLOGY 151D.001, ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY Synopsis
    Bio Sci 111, TuTh 11:40 AM-12:55 PM
  • BIOLOGY 151D.01D, ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY Synopsis
    LSRC A247, M 11:55 AM-12:45 PM
  • BIOLOGY 151D.02D, ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY Synopsis
    LSRC D243, M 03:05 PM-03:55 PM
  • BIOLOGY 151L.001, PRINCIPLES ANIMAL PHYS Synopsis
    Bio Sci 111, TuTh 11:40 AM-12:55 PM
  • BIOLOGY 151L.92L, PRINCIPLES ANIMAL PHYS Synopsis
    Bio Sci 073, Th 01:30 PM-05:00 PM

Education:

PhDUniversity of Chicago1999

Specialties:

Genomics
Evolution
Genetics

Research Interests: Evolutionary Genomics and Bioinformatics

Keywords:

bioinformatics • genomics • evolution • theory • networks • genetics

Current Ph.D. Students   (Former Students)
  • Colin Maxwell  
  • Omur Kayikci  
  • David M. McCandlish  

Postdocs Mentored
  • Jennifer Reininga-Craven (January, 2009 - present)  
  • Josh Granek (August, 2007 - present)  

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

  1. Lee, H. N., P. M. Magwene and R. B. Brem, Natural genetic variation in CDC28 underlies morphological phenotypes in an environmental yeast isolate, Genetics, vol. 188 no. 3 (2011), pp. 723-730 [723.abstract]
  2. Granek, J. A. and O. Kayikci and P. M. Magwene, Pleiotropic signaling pathways orchestrate yeast development, Current Opinion in Microbiology, vol. in press (2011)
  3. P. M. Magwene and J. H. Willis and J. K. Kelly, The statistics of bulk segregant analysis using next-generation sequencing., PLoS Computational Biology, vol. 7 no. 11 (2011), pp. e1002255
  4. P.M. Magwene, O. Kayikci, J.A. Granek, J.M. Reininga, Z. Scholl, D. Murray, Outcrossing, mitotic recombination, and life-history tradeoffs shape genome evolution in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 108 no. 5 (2011), pp. 1987-1992  [abs]
  5. J.A. Granek and P.M. Magwene, Environmental and genetic determinants of colony morphology in yeast, PLoS Genetics, vol. 6 no. 1 (2010), pp. e1000823  [abs]