University of New England

Debra McDonough, Ph.D.

Laboratory Instructor
(207) 602-2649
dmcdonough@une.edu

Education

B.S. - Biology, 1992
          Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Ph.D. - Molecular / Cellular / Developmental Biology, 2000
            University of Colorado

Courses

BIO100   Biology I

BIO200   Genetics 
    
BIO406   Bioethics

BIO475   Developmental Genetics

Research Interests 

Applications of genomic data 
    
Comparative sequence analysis of the human / mouse skeletal myosin heavy chain genes 
    
Chromosomal rearangements in human evolution

Selected Publications

Weiss A, McDonough D, Wertman B, Acakpo-Satchivi L, Montgomery K, Kucherlapati R, Leinwand L, Krauter K (1999) Organization of human and mouse skeletal myosin heavy chain gene clusters is highly conserved, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 96: 2958-63.