VCU Bioinformatics and Bioengineering Summer Institute
Virginia Commonwealth University
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Jonathan Levin

  Home Institution
  Oberlin College   (Oberlin, OH)
  E-mail: jdlevin(at)oberlin.edu

  Home mentor
  Michael Moore
  E-mail: michael.moore(at)oberlin.edu
  Affiliation: Department of Biology
  Interests: Plant Systematics - the study of plant evolutionary diversity
  Research Focus: (1) The Origins and Biogeography of Gypsophily in the Chihuahuan Desert
       (2) Plastid Genome Evolution and Flowering Plant Phylogenetics
 

VCU Lab
Life Sci Center Rm. 334
Center for the Study of Biological Complexity
Tel: 804-828-0794

VCU mentor
Wan-ling Chiu
Dept. of Biology
Virginia Commonwealth Univ.
E-mail: wchiu(at)vcu.edu
 

Summer 2008
Research Proposal

Understanding the Method by which Nostoc Invades the Gunnera Gland
Research article, presented June 9, 2009
CYCLOPS, a mediator of symbiotic intracellular accommodation
Research presentation (5 August 2008)
6th Annual VCU-BBSI Closing Symposium
Modification of the cell wall in the symbiotic gland of Gunnera manicata

Academic Year 2008-2009
Research Proposal

Identification and Expression Analysis of Host Genes Responsible for the Establishment of Gunnera-Nostoc Symbiosis

Summer 2009
Research Proposal

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Research presentation (August 2009)
7th Annual VCU-BBSI Closing Symposium
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Final Research Proposal
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Prior research
Plant Systematics: The evolution of gypsophily in genus Gaillardia (Asteraceae)
Molecular Biology: Causes of mutant myosin phenotypes in C. elegans

Characteristic interests and activities
Classical (as well as some other kinds of) music, brewing, cooperative dining, Food Not Bombs, bicycling, backpacking, occasional parading

Pertinent Research Articles (Annotated)
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