Understanding the molecular basis of eye development; differentiation of color photoreceptor subtypes in the Drosophila retina; cell-specific regulation of opsin gene expression; mechanisms of cell-specific transcriptional activation and repression
 

Differentiation of color photoreceptor subtypes in the Drosophila retina; cell-specific regulation of opsin gene expression; mechanisms of cell-specific transcriptional activation and repression

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BA: Biology, Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa 1987-1991

PhD: Biomedical Sciences/Molecular Biology, 1991-1997

Postdoctoral fellowships: Gastroenterology, 1997-1999; Molecular Genetics, 1999-2004

Rajkumar P, Rollmann SM, Cook TA, Layne JE. Molecular evidence for color discrimination in the Atlantic sand fiddler crab, Uca pugilator. J Exp Biol. 2010 Dec 15;213(Pt 24):4240-8.

Charlton-Perkins M, Cook TA. Building a fly eye: terminal differentiation events of the retina, corneal lens, and pigmented epithelia. Curr Top Dev Biol. 2010;93:129-73.

Gutzwiller LM, Witt LM, Gresser AL, Burns KA, Cook TA, Gebelein B. Proneural and abdominal Hox inputs synergize to promote sensory organ formation in the Drosophila abdomen. Dev Biol. 2010 Dec 15;348(2):231-43.

McDonald EC, Xie B, Workman M, Charlton-Perkins M, Terrell DA, Reischl J, Wimmer EA, Gebelein BA, Cook TA. Separable transcriptional regulatory domains within Otd control photoreceptor terminal differentiation events. Dev Biol. 2010 Nov 1;347(1):122-32.

Phelan JD, Shroyer NF, Cook T, Gebelein B, Grimes HL. Gfi1-cells and circuits: unraveling transcriptional networks of development and disease. Curr Opin Hematol. 2010 Jul;17(4):300-7.

Witt LM, Gutzwiller LM, Gresser AL, Li-Kroeger D, Cook TA, Gebelein B. Atonal, Senseless, and Abdominal-A regulate rhomboid enhancer activity in abdominal sensory organ precursors. Dev Biol. 2010 Aug 15;344(2):1060-70.

Uhl JD, Cook TA, Gebelein B. Comparing anterior and posterior Hox complex formation reveals guidelines for predicting cis-regulatory elements. Dev Biol. 2010 Jul 1;343(1-2):154-66.

Lomberk G, Imoto I, Gebelein B, Urrutia R, and Cook TA. Conservation of the TGF[beta]/labial Homeobox signaling loop in endoderm-derived cells between Drosophila and mammals. Pancreatology. 2010;10(1):74-84. 

Maksimovic S, Cook TA, Buschbeck EK. Spatial distribution of opsin-encoding mRNAs in the tiered larval retinas of the sunburst diving beetle Thermonectus marmoratus (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae). J Exp Biol. 2009 Dec;212(Pt 23):3781-94.

Li-Kroeger D, Witt LM, Grimes HL, Cook TA, Gebelein B. Hox and senseless antagonism functions as a molecular switch to regulate EGF secretion in the Drosophila PNS. Dev Cell. 2008 Aug;15(2):298-308.