Associate Professor
School of Biological Sciences
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
E146 Beadle Center
Lincoln, NE 68588-0666
(402)314-5571 Office/Voice Mail
(402)472-2167 Laboratory
(402)472-8722 Fax
aatkin1@unl.edu
AUDREY L. ATKIN, Ph.D.
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Associate Professor (402)314-5571 Office/Voice Mail |
- Supervisor: Dr. John B. Bell
- Thesis: In Vivo and in Vitro Characterization of Saccharomyces cerevisiae tRNATrp Suppressor Constructs.
- University of Guelph, 1985.
- Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
- Supervisor: Dr. Michael R. Culbertson
- School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Kebaara, B. W., M. L. Langford, D. H. M. L. P. Navarathna, R. Dumitru, K. W. Nickerson and A. L. Atkin, 2008. Candida albicans Tup1 is involved in farnesol-mediated inhibition of filamentous-growth induction. Eukarytic Cell 7: in press. [Abstract]
Dumitru, R., D. H. M. L. P. Navarathna, C. P. Semighini, C. G. Elowsky, R. V. Dumitru, D. Dignard, M. Whiteway, A. L. Atkin, and K. W. Nickerson, 2007. In vivo and in vitro anaerobic mating in Candida albicans. Eukaryotic Cell 6:465-472. [Abstract]
Nickerson, K. W., A. L. Atkin, and J. M. Hornby, 2006. Quorum Sensing in Dimorphic Fungi: Farnesol and Beyond. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 72:3805-3813. [Abstract]
Kebaara, B. W., L. E. Nielsen, K. W. Nickerson, and A. L. Atkin, 2006. Determination of mRNA half-lives in Candida albicans using thiolutin as a transcription inhibitor. Genome, 49:894-899. [Abstract]
Jensen, E. C., J. M. Hornby, N. E. Pagliaccetti, C. M. Wolter, K. W. Nickerson, and A. L. Atkin, 2006. Farnesol restores wild-type colony morphology to 96% of Candida albicans colony morphology variants recovered following treatment with mutagens. Genome, 49:346-353. [Abstract]
Taylor, R., B. W. Kebaara, T. Nazarenus, A. Jones, R. Yamanaka, R. Uhrenholdt, J. P. Wendler, and A. L. Atkin, 2005. Gene sets co-regulated by the Saccharomyces cerevisiae nonsense-mediated mRNA decay pathway. Eukaryotic Cell, 4:2066-2077. [Abstract]
Mosel, D. D., R. Dumitru, J. M. Hornby, A. L. Atkin, and K. W. Nickerson, 2005. Farnesol concentrations required to block germ tube formation in Candida albicans in the presence and absence of serum. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 71:4938-4940. [Abstract]
Nazarenus, T., R. Cedarberg, R. Bell, J. Cheatle, A. Forch, A. Haifley, A. Hou, B. W. Kebaara, C. Shields, K. Stoysich, R. Taylor, and A. L. Atkin, 2005. Upf1p, a highly conserved protein required for nonsense-mediated mRNA decay, interacts with the nuclear pore proteins Nup100p and Nup116p. Genes 345:199-212. [Abstract]
Kebaara, B., T. Nazarenus, R. Taylor, A. Forch, and A. L. Atkin, 2003. The Upf-dependent decay of wild-type PPR1 mRNA depends on its 5'-UTR and first 92 ORF nucleotides. Nucleic Acids Research, 31(12):3157-3165. [Abstract]
Kebaara, B., T. Nazarenus, R. Taylor, and A. L. Atkin, 2003. Genetic background affects relative nonsense mRNA accumulation in wild-type and upf mutant yeast strains. Current Genetics, 43:171-177. [Abstract]
Shields, C.M., R. Taylor, T. Nazarenus, J. Cheatle, A. Hou, A. Tapprich, A. Haifley, and A. L. Atkin, 2003. Saccharomyces cerevisiae Ats1p interacts with Nap1p, a cytoplasmic protein that controls bud morphogenesis. Current Genetics, 44:184-194. [Abstract]
Atkin, A. L., 1999. Preparation of Yeast Cells for Confocal Microscopy. In: Protocols in Confocal Microscopy. S. W. Paddock (Ed.). Methods Mol. Biol., 122:131-139.
Dahlseid, J. N., J. Puziss, R. L. Shirley, A. L. Atkin, P. Hieter, and M. R. Culbertson, 1998. Accumulation of mRNA Coding for Yeast Ctf13 Kinetocore Subunit Depends on the Same Factors that Promote Rapid Decay of Nonsense mRNAs. Genetics 150: 1019-1035. [Abstract]
Atkin, A. L., L. R. Schenkman, M. Eastham, J. D. Dahlseid, and M. R. Culbertson, 1997. Relationship Between Yeast Polyribosomes and Upf Proteins Required for Nonsense mRNA Decay. J. Biol. Chem., 272:22163-22172. [Abstract]
Atkin, A. L., N. Altamura, P. Leeds, and M. R. Culbertson, 1995. The Majority of Yeast UPF1 Co-localizes with Polyribosomes in the Cytoplasm. Mol. Biol. Cell., 6:611-625. [Abstract]
Atkin, A. L., C. L. Greer, K. L. Roy, and J. B. Bell, 1993. The Functional Analysis of Nonsense Suppressors Derived from in Vitro-engineered Saccharomyces cerevisiae tRNATrp Genes. Gene 134:57-65. [Abstract]
Atkin, A. L., B. Henry, K. L. Roy and J. B. Bell, 1992. Characterization of the tRNATrp Genes of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Gene 119:57-63. [Abstract]
Atkin, A. L., K. L. Roy, and J. B. Bell, 1990. Construction of an Opal Suppressor by Oligonucleotide Directed Mutagenesis of a Saccharomyces cerevisiae tRNATrp Gene. Mol. Cell. Biol., 10:4379-4383. [Abstract]
Williams, J. A., A. L. Atkin, and J. B. Bell, 1990. The Functional Complexity of the Vestigial Locus in Drosophila melanogaster. Mol. Gen. Genet., 221:8-16. [Abstract]
Williams, J. A., I. M. Scott, A. L. Atkin, W. J. Brook, M. A. Russell, and J. B. Bell, 1990. Genetic and Molecular Analysis of vgu and vgw: Two Dominant vg Alleles Associated with Gene Fusions in Drosophila. Genetics, 125:833-844. [Abstract]
Lee, H., A. L. Atkin, M. F. S. Barbosa, D. R. Dorschild and H. Schneider, 1988. Effect of Biotin Limitation on the Conversion of Xylose to Ethanol and Xylitol by Pachysolen tannophilus and Candida guillermondii. Enzyme and Microbial Technology,10: 81-84.