other Cornell affiliations Cornell Center for Comparative and Population Genomics (3CPG) Cornell Center for Reproductive Genomics (CRG)
individual publications academic article AGO4 regulates entry into meiosis and influences silencing of sex chromosomes in the male mouse germline.. Developmental Cell. 23:251-64. 2012 A targeted approach to miRNA target identification. Nature Methods News&Views discussing Jovanovic et al. Nature Methods 7, 837-842. Nature Methods. 7:795-797. 2010 Early origins and evolution of microRNAs and Piwi-interacting RNAs in animals. Nature. 455:1193-1197. 2008 C. elegans SMG-2 selectively marks mRNAs containing premature translation termination Codons. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 27:5630-5638. 2007 MicroRNA targeting specificity in mammals: determinants beyond seed pairing. Molecular Cell. 27:91-105. 2007 CAR-1, a protein that localizes with the mRNA decapping component DCAP-1, is required for cytokinesis and ER organization in Caenorhabditis elegans embryos. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 17:336-344. 2006 Microarray analysis shows that some microRNAs downregulate large numbers of target mRNAs. Nature. 433:769-773. 2005 The widespread impact of mammalian MicroRNAs on mRNA repression and evolution. Science. 310:1817-1821. 2005 SMG-1 is a phosphatidylinositol kinase-related protein kinase required for nonsense-mediated mRNA Decay in Caenorhabditis elegans. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 24:7483-7490. 2004 Phosphorylation of hUPF1 induces formation of mRNA surveillance complexes containing hSMG-5 and hSMG-7. Molecular Cell. 12:1187-1200. 2003 SMG 5, required for nonsense mediated mRNA decay, associates with SMG 2 and protein phosphatase 2A. EMBO Journal. 22:641-650. 2002 SMG 2 is a phosphorylated protein required for mRNA surveillance in Caenorhabditis elegans and related to Upf1p of yeast. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 19:5943-5951. 1999
teaching activities BIOMG-3320: Principles of Biochemistry: Molecular Biology - Spring 2013 BIOMG-8310: Advanced Biochemical Methods I - Fall 2012 BIOMG-3320: Principles of Biochemistry: Molecular Biology - Spring 2012 BIOMG-8310: Advanced Biochemical Methods I - Fall 2011
education and training Ph.D. in, Department of Genetics, University of Wisconsin - Madison 2004 B.A. in, Department of Genetics, Trinity College Dublin (TCD) 1997
awards and honors NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2007 Schlimgen Award for Outstanding Scholarship, 2003 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Predoctoral Fellowship, 2002 Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation Fellowship, 1997