Epernicus: Michelle T Juarez, Ph.D.

Michelle T Juarez, Ph.D.

Positions:
Assistant Project Scientist

Division of Biology

Section of Cell and Developmental Biology

University of California, San Diego (San Diego, CA)

Post Doctoral Fellow

Cell and Developmental Biology

University of California, San Diego (San Diego, CA)
Advisor:
William McGinnis
Degrees:

Ph.D., Genetics, Stony Brook University (Stony Brook, NY)

B.S., Plant Biology, University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)
Past Advisors:

Marja Timmermans (as Graduate Student - Ph.D.)

John Bowman (as Technician)

Sarah Hake (as Undergraduate Student)
Research:
Study the genes required for an immediate epidermal wound healing response, using Drosophila as a model organism.
Other Experience:
Honors:
2010 NIGMS Workshop for Postdocs Transitioning to Independent Positions

2010 Best Presentation Award, Hilde Mangold Postdoctoral Symposium, Society for Developmental Biology

2009 Carl Storm Award - Gordon Research Conference

2009 FASEB-MARC Travel Award, Society of Developmnetal Biology

2008 EMBO Fellowship

2008 LASDB-SDB Model Organisms Short Course Participant

2006-2007 National Academies Education Fellow in the Life Sciences

2005-2008 IRACDA Fellowship

2000-2004 W. Burghardt Turner Fellowship

Communities:

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Multiple transcription factor codes activate epidermal wound-response genes in Drosophila.
Pearson JC, Juarez MT, Kim M, McGinnis W

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2009 Feb 17;106(7):2224-9
Two small regulatory RNAs establish opposing fates of a developmental axis.
Nogueira FT, Madi S, Chitwood DH, Juarez MT, Timmermans MC

Genes & development. 2007 Apr 1;21(7):750-5
Specification of adaxial cell fate during maize leaf development.
Juarez MT, Twigg RW, Timmermans MC

Development (Cambridge, England). 2004 Sep;131(18):4533-44
microRNA-mediated repression of rolled leaf1 specifies maize leaf polarity.
Juarez MT, Kui JS, Thomas J, Heller BA, Timmermans MC

Nature. 2004 Mar 4;428(6978):84-8
A conserved microRNA signal specifies leaf polarity.
Timmermans MC, Juarez MT, Phelps-Durr TL

Cold Spring Harbor symposia on quantitative biology. 2004;69:409-17
Leaf senescence is delayed in tobacco plants expressing the maize homeobox gene knotted1 under the control of a senescence-activated promoter.
Ori N, Juarez MT, Jackson D, Yamaguchi J, Banowetz GM, Hake S

The Plant cell. 1999 Jun;11(6):1073-80

Flotillin-2 inhibitis the activity of an epidermal wound response sensor (presentation)
Michelle T Juarez

Society for Developmental Biology, Hilde Mangold Postdoctoral Symposium; 08/2010
Flotillin2 controls the spread of epidermal wound response in Drosophila (poster)
Michelle T Juarez

Gordon Research Conference, Tissue Repair & Regeneration; 06/2009
Requirements for epidermal wound repair: Lessons from Drosophila Genetics (presentation)
Michelle T Juarez

EMBO Conference, Molecular and Cellular Basis of Regeneration and Tissue Repair; 10/2008
Requirements for epidermal wound repair: Lessons from Drosophila Genetics (poster)
Michelle T Juarez

LASDB-SDB Model Organisms Short Course, Buenos Aires, Argentina; 10/2008

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