Dr. James Lissemore, Ph.D

Professor

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Areas of Expertise

  • Molecular Biology
  • Genetics

Research Interests

Genetic analysis of reproductive stem cells in the model organism C. elegans.

Education

B.A. in Microbiology, Rutgers University; Ph.D. in Molecular Biology, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Post-doctoral research at Syracuse University, cloning and regulation of glycolytic enzyme genes in D. melanogaster; Post-doctoral research at Syracuse University, genetic analysis of reproductive stem cells in C. elegans.

Courses Taught

BL 1500 Principles of Biology I, BL 2130 Genetics, BL 2150 Biotechnology Lab, BL 2600 Social Inequality and Disease, BL 4650 Molecular Genetics, BL 4810 Biology Seminar.

Publications

*Stein, S., *Zucaro, O., Smith, H., O’Connell, K., Spoerke, J. Maine, EM, and Lissemore, JL. 2022. om92, a glp-1 enhancer mutation, is an allele of ekl-1. microPublication Biology 10.17912/micropub.biology.000698.

Lissemore, J.L., Edgley, M., Flibotte, S., Taylor, J. Au, V., *Conners, E., *Liu, Y., Qiao, L., Yang, B., Moerman, D., and Maine, E.M. 2018. Molecular and genetic analysis of the ego-3 gene reveals a critical role for HSP90 in GLP-1/Notch signaling in the C. elegans germline. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics 8:1535-1544.

Lissemore, J.L., *Bayes, J., *Calvey, M., *Reineke, L., *Colagiavanni, A., *Tscheiner, M., and Mascotti, D.P. 2009. Green fluorescent protein is superior to blue fluorescent protein as a quantitative reporter of promoter activity in E. coli. Mol. Biol. Rep. 36:1107-12.

Lissemore, J.L., *Lackner, L.L., *Fedoriw, G.D., and De Stasio, E.A. 2005. Isolation of C. elegans genomic DNA and detection of deletions in the unc-93 gene using PCR. Biochem. Mol. Biol. Educ., 33:219-226.

Lissemore, J.L., *Thomas, C., *Jankowski, J., Mascotti, D.P., and deHaseth, P.L. 2000. Green fluorescent protein as a quantitative reporter of relative promoter activity in E. coli. BioTechniques 28:82-89.

*JCU undergraduate co-author

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