Investigators and Program Directors

Select Publications

• Glaser, R.L. and Meola, M.A. 2010. The native Wolbachia endosymbionts of Drosophila melanogaster and Culex quinquefasciatus increase host resistance to West Nile virus infection. PLoS One 5(8): e11977.  PubMed
• Chotkowski, H.L., Ciota, A.T., Jia, Y., Puig-Basagoiti, F., Kramer, L.D., Shi, P.-Y., and Glaser, R.L. 2008. West Nile virus infection of Drosophila melanogaster induces a protective RNAi response. Virology 377(1): 197-206. PubMed
• Mavrich, T.N., Jiang, C., Ioshikhes, I.P., Li, X., Venters, B.J., Zanton, S.J., Tomsho, L.P., Qi, J., Glaser, R.L., Biggin, M., Schuster, S.C., Gilmour, D.S., Albert, I., and Pugh, B.F. 2008. Nucleosome organization in the Drosophila genome. Nature 453: 358-362. PubMed
• Andreyeva, E.N., Kolesnikova, T.D., Belyaeva, E.S., Glaser, R.L., and Zhimulev, I.F. 2008. Local DNA underreplication correlates with accumulation of phosphorylated H2Av in the Drosophila melanogaster polytene chromosomes. Chromosome Research 16(6): 851-862. PubMed
• Bannan, B., Van Etten, J., Kohler. J.A., Fowler, E., Hansen, N., Sigmon, S., Tsoi, Y., Buff, H., Ault, J.G., Glaser, R.L., Korey, C.A. 2008. The Drosophila protein palmitoylome: Characterizing palmitoyl-thioesterases and DHHC palmitoyl-transferases Fly 2(4): 189-197. PubMed
• Hickey, A.J., Chotkowski, H.L., Singh, N., Ault, J.G., Korey, C.A., MacDonald, M.E., and Glaser, R.L. 2006. Palmitoyl-protein thioesterase 1 deficiency in Drosophila melanogaster causes accumulation of abnormal storage material and reduced lifespan. Genetics 172(4):2379-2390. PubMed
• Kusch, T., Florens, L., MacDonald, W.H., Swanson, S.K., Glaser, R.L., Abmayr, S.M., Yates III, J.R., Washburn, M.P. and Workman, J.L. 2004. Acetylation by Tip60 is required for selective histone variant exchange at DNA lesions. Science 306:2084-2087. PubMed
• Glaser, R.L., Hickey, A.J., Chotkowski, H.L., and Chu-LaGraff, Q. 2003. Characterization of Drosophila palmitoyl-protein thioesterase 1. Gene 312:271-279. PubMed
• Madigan, J.P., Chotkowski, H.L., and Glaser, R.L. 2002. DNA double-strand break-induced phosphorylation of Drosophila histone variant H2Av helps prevent radiation-induced apoptosis. Nucleic Acids Res. 30(17):3698-3705. PubMed
• Leach, T.J., Mazzeo, M., Chotkowski, H.L., Madigan, J.P., Wotring, M.G. and Glaser, R.L. 2000. Histone H2A.Z is widely but nonrandomly distributed in chromosomes of Drosophila melanogaster. J. Biol. Chem. 275(30): 23267-23272. PubMed
• Leach, T.J., Chotkowski, H.L., Wotring, M.G., Dilwith, R.L. and Glaser, R.L. 2000. Replication of heterochromatin and the structure of polytene chromosomes. Mol. Cell. Biol. 20(17): 6308-6316. PubMed

Contact Information

E-mail: glaser@wadsworth.org