Amybeth Cohen
Professor, Vice-Chair, & Director, MAXIMIZING Access to Research Careers Scholars Program
Degrees
PhD, University of California Riverside
BA, Skidmore College
Research Areas
Regulation of photosynthetic gene expression in plant cells, nuclear-chloroplast interactions, engineering the unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii as a food source
Courses Regularly Taught
Genetics, Principles of Gene Manipulation, Plant Cell Physiology, Scientific Communication
Publications
Franklin, H. A., Stapp, P. and Cohen, A.. 2010. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) identification of blood meals confirms host sharing by flea vectors of plague. Journal of Vector Ecology. 35: 1-9.
Alizadeh, D. and Cohen, A. 2010. Red light and calmodulin regulate the expression of thepsbA binding protein genes rb38 and rb60 in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Plant Cell Physiology. 51: 312–322 .
Barnes, D., Cohen, A., Bruick, R., Kantardjief, K., Fowler, S., Efuet, E. and Mayfield, S. P. 2004. Identification and characterization of a novel RNA binding protein that associates with the 5’-untranslated region of the chloroplast psbA mRNA. Biochemistry. 43: 8541-8550 .
Cohen, A., Yohn, C.B., Mayfield, S.P. 2001. Loss of D2 synthesis affects translation initiation of the psbA mRNA Chlamydomonas reinhardtii . J. Plant Physiol. 158: 1069-1075.
