Biology Faculty and Staff
Beth De Stasio
With a PhD in molecular and cell biology and post-doctoral work in genetics, I’m best labeled a molecular geneticist. In my post-doctoral work, I moved from working on bacterial ribosome structure/function analyses to worm (C. elegans) muscle assembly and function. Recent work in my lab is focused on the function of a particular potassium channel and its role in coordinating mating behavior. Students in my lab work on assessing tissue- and cell-specific patterns of gene expression by making glow-in-the-dark worms, they produce mutant genes using recombinant DNA techniques, and they create and use behavioral assays to determine the effect of mutant gene expression on the whole animal. In collaboration with labs at Madison and MIT, we are embarking on a project to understand how several proteins work together to make this channel work properly. Fun Stuff!
Education:
PhD Brown University
Muscular Dystrophy Association post-doctoral fellow, UW-Madison
Courses Offered: Integrative Biology: Principles, Molecular Biology, Genetics, Evolutionary Biology, Biotechnology and Society, Freshman Studies, Cancer Biology Seminar, Tutorials on virology, human genetics, and other topics.
