The DNA methyltransferase DmtB  and its relationship to heterocyst differentiation in Anabaena KT Young (UR '01) KTYoung@UMich.Edu

Positions after U. Richmond
PhD program, Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan (Vic Dirita, mentor)

Earlier project (Spring '99)
Sequencing and mutation of dmtD, encoding a DNA modification enzyme of the cyanobacterium Anabaena

Awards
Goldwater Fellowship nominee (one of two from UR, 1998)
UR Summer Research Fellowship, 1999
Goldwater Fellowship, 1999
NSF graduate fellowship, 2002
Howard Hughes graduate fellowship, 2002

Publications and Presentations (click for abstract)

Matveyev AM, Young KT*, Elhai J (2000)
Examination of potential role of orphan methylase dmnB in patterned heterocyst formation in Anabaena
Xth International Symposium on Photosynthetic Prokaryotes, Barcelona, Spain

Matveyev* AV, Young KT, Rumble J, Lee J, Bucheimer RE, Meng A, Elhai J (2000)
Intrinsic control of heterocyst spacing in Anabaena: The role of DNA methyltransferases
Xth International Symposium on Photosynthetic Prokaryotes, Barcelona, Spain

Elhai J*, Matveyev AV, Young KT (2000)
Recent evolution of the genome of Anabaena PCC 7120: genes of recent and ancient origins encoding DNA modifying enzymes
Xth International Symposium on Photosynthetic Prokaryotes, Barcelona, Spain

Matveyev AV, Young KT, Meng A, Elhai J (2001). DNA methyltransferases of the cyanobacterium Anabaena PCC 7120.
Nucleic Acids Research 29:1491-1506. Abstract / Full Text

Gantar M, Khudyakov I, Young KT, Elhai J (Submitted)
Differentiation by unicellular and fragmenting mutants of the filamentous cyanobacterium Anabaena PCC 7120.
Journal of Bacterioliology