Jeff Sekelsky

Jeff Sekelsky, Ph.D.

  • Position:
    Associate Professor

    Biology

    Molecular Biology and Biotechnology

    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, NC)

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  • Degrees:
     
    Ph.D., Biology, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA)
     
    B.A., Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Madison, WI)
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  • Past Advisors:
     
    Scott R Hawley (as Post Doctoral Fellow)
     
    William M Gelbart (as Graduate Student - Ph.D.)
     
    Julius Adler (as Technician)
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  • Research:
    Mechanisms and regulation of mitotic and meiotic recombination.

    We study mechanisms that prevent mitotic crossovers in cycling cells and mechanisms that promote meiotic crossovers, using Drosophila as a model. Much of our mitotic recombination work has focused on the Drosophila BLM helicase and associated proteins, whereas our meiotic work has focused on the putative Holliday junction resolvase containing MEI-9 (XPF/Rad1), ERCC1, and MUS312 (BTBD12/Slx4). Additional studies of meiotic recombination investigate REC (MCM8) and interacting proteins.

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  • Honors:

    2008-2010 Glenn Award for research on biological mechanisms of aging

    2000-2004 Ellison Medical Foundation New Scholar Award

    1995-1998 Damon Runyon - Walter Winchell Postdoctoral Fellowship

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