Jessica Grant Research Assistant Department of Biological Sciences Smith College Northampton, MA 01060 (413) 585-3750
Education: (Currently) MS Student in Bioinformatics, Johns Hopkins University BS of Mathematics, cum laude, University of Washington, 1994
Current Project: Assembling the Eukaryotic Tree of Life
(I am also the Katz lab webmaster and I like to make cakes)
Publications: Parfrey LW, Grant JR, Tekle YI, Lasek-Nesselquist E, Morrison HG, Sogin ML, Patterson DJ, Katz LA. In Press. Broadly sampled multigene analyses yield a well-resolved eukaryotic tree of life. Syst. Biol. Cole J., Andersen O.R., Tekle Y. I., J.R. Grant, Katz L. A., and T. Nerad. 2010. A description of a new ‘Amoebozoa’ isolated from the American Lobster, Homarus americanus. J. Euk. Micro. 57: 40-47. Grant J.R., Y.I. Tekle, O.R. Anderson, D.J. Patterson and L.A. Katz. Multigene evidence for the placement of a heterotrophic amoeboid lineage Leukarachnion sp. among photosynthetic stramenopiles. Protist Tekle, Y.I., J.R. Grant, O.R. Anderson, J.C. Cole, T. Nerad, and L.A. Katz. 2008. Multigene phylogenetic analyses of diverse amoebae and assessment of stability of clades within ‘Amoebozoa’ based on rate corrected SSU-rDNA analysis. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. Tekle,Y. I., Grant J.R., Cole J.C., Nerad T.A., Anderson O.R., Patterson D.J., Katz L., 2007. A Multigene Analysis of Corallomyxa tenera sp. nov. Suggests its Membership in a Clade that Includes Gromia, Haplosporidia and Foraminifera. Protist Yoon, H-S, J.R. Grant, Y.I. Tekle, M. Wu, B.C. Chao, J.C. Cole, J.M. Logsdon, D.J. Patterson, D. Bhattacharya, and L.A. Katz. 2007. A broadly sampled multigene tree of eukaryotes. BMC Evol. Biol. Manuscripts in review/in preparation: Tekle, Y. I., Grant J., Kovner, A., Katz, L. Identification of new molecular markers for assembling the eukaryotic tree of life. (in prep.)