Agnes Ayme-Southgate
Professor
Education
Postdoc - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ph.D. - University of Geneva, Switzerland
B.S. - University of Geneva
Research Interests
- Genomics and molecular analysis of insect muscle proteins
- Protein structure-function relationship and biophysical modeling
- Significance for understanding muscle physiology, development, insect flight and evolution
Courses Taught
BIOL 305: Genetics
BIOL 312: Molecular Biology and Lab
BIOL 322: Developmental Biology and Lab
BIOL 453: Advanced Genetics
FYSM 109: Molecular Biology in the News
Publications
Ayme-Southgate A, Philipp* RA, and Southgate RJ. (2011) The projectin PEVK domain, splicing variants and domain structure in basal and derived insects, J. Insect Mol. Biol. 20(3):347-356. PubMed PMID: 21349121.
Ayme-Southgate A, Southgate RJ, Philipp* RA, Sotka AA, and Kramp* C. (2008) The Myofibrillar Protein, Projectin, Is Highly Conserved Across Insect , Evolution Except For Its PEVK Domain, J. Mol. Evol. 67(6):653-69.
Ayme-Southgate A, Feldman* S, and Fulmer D*, (2015) Myofilament proteins in the synchronous flight muscles of Manduca sexta show both similarities and differences to Drosophila melanogaster. Insect Biochem.Mol. Biol. 62:174-82
2Yuan CC, Ma W, Schemmel P, Cheng YS, Liu J, Tsaprailis G, Feldman S*, Ayme Southgate A, and. Irving TC (2015) Elastic Proteins in the Flight Muscle of Manduca sexta Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics, 568, 16-27 PMID:25602701
Ayme-Southgate A, R. Allison, E. Berger, L Galloway, E Risner, and J Vance. (2017) Regulation of alternative splicing during the nurse-forager transition in Apis mellifera Arthropod Genomics Conference invited talk