Carrie Eckert - Postdoc
Carrie Eckert received her B.S. in Biology in 1999 from the University of South Dakota, where she was involved in research on heat shock proteins in maize. She received her Ph.D. in Molecular Biology in 2006 from the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. Under the supervision of Paul Megee, she studied chromosome cohesion in the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. After graduation, she worked under the supervision of James Maller, with whom she investigated kinases and phosphatases involved in meiosis using Xenopus laevis oocytes.
Her current research interests involve genetic manipulation of the bidirectional hydrogenase of the cyanobacteria Synechocystis to further elucidate the function of each subunit in biohydrogen production. This basic research should lead to possibilities for engineering a more efficient hydrogenase.
Selected Publications
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C.A. Eckert, D.J. Gravdahl, and P.C. Megee, “The enhancement of pericentromeric cohesin association by conserved kinetochore components promotes high-fidelity chromosome segregation and is sensitive to microtubule-based tension,” Genes Dev. 21, 278-291 (2007).
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