103 Tucker Hall
University of Missouri
Columbia, MO 65211
Phone: (573) 884-0020
ecfm7f@mail.missouri.edu

Education

B.S., 2008, University of Missouri
Ph.D., 2015, University of Missouri

Honors

• GAANN Graduate Research Fellowship

Publications

Decker L.M., Boone E.C., Xiao H., Shanker B.S., Boone S.F., Kingston S.L., Lee S.A., Hammond T.M., and Shiu P.K.T. (2015) Complex formation of RNA silencing proteins in the perinuclear region of Neurospora crassa. Genetics, 199: 1017-1021. [abstract] [pdf]

Hammond T.M., Xiao H., Boone E.C., Decker L.M., Lee S.A., Perdue T.D., Pukkila P.J., and Shiu P.K.T. (2013) Novel proteins required for meiotic silencing by unpaired DNA and siRNA generation in Neurospora crassa. Genetics 194: 91-100. [abstract] 

Hammond T.M., Xiao H., Boone E.C., Perdue T.D., Pukkila P.J., and Shiu P.K.T. (2011) SAD-3, a putative helicase required for MSUD, interacts with other components of the silencing machinery. G3 1: 369-376. [abstract]

Hammond T.M., Xiao H., Rehard D.G., Boone E.C., Perdue T.D., Pukkila P.J., and Shiu P.K.T. (2011) Fluorescent and bimolecular-fluorescent protein tagging of genes at their native loci in Neurospora crassa using specialized double-joint PCR plasmids. Fungal Genet. Biol. 48: 866-873. [abstract]

Xiao H., Alexander W.G., Hammond T.M., Boone E.C., Perdue T.D., Pukkila P.J., and Shiu P.K.T. (2010) QIP, an exonuclease that converts duplex siRNA into single strands, is required for Meiotic Silencing by Unpaired DNA. Genetics 186: 119-126. [abstract]