Maria Ow (FIU '95) University of Michigan

Positions
Ph.D. program, Genetics, University of Georgia (Sidney Kushner)
Post-doc, University of Michigan (Dennis Thiele)

Previous projects
F'94 - Sp'95: Mutant of Anabaena defective in dam methylation
F'94 - Sp'95: Associate editor, CyanoNews
F'93 - Su'94: Reconstitution of symbiotic association between Nostoc and the cycad Zamia furfuracea
                       Chemotaxis of cyanobacteria towards plant exudates

Presentations
Ow MC, Gantar M, Elhai J (1994). Reconstitution of the cycad/cyanobacteria symbiosis and the induction of hormogonia differentiation by coralloid root extract. 8th International Symposium on Photosynthetic Prokaryotes. Urbino, Italy, Sept. 10-15, 1994.

Publications
Ow MC, Gantar M, Elhai J (1999). Reconstitution of a cycad-cyanobacterial association. Symbiosis 27:125-134.

Ow MC, Liu Q, Kushner SR (2000). Analysis of mRNA decay and rRNA processing in Escherichia coli in the absence of RNase E-based degradosome assembly. Molec Microbiol 38:854-866.