Naomi Stover
Associate Professor
Olin Hall 105
(309) 677-3675
nstover@bradley.edu
http://ciliate.org
Ph.D., Biological Science, The University of California, Irvine
B.S., Biology, The New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Biography
Dr. Stover studies genome evolution and its effects on the biology of cells. She heads the NIH-funded Tetrahymena Genome Database (TGD) Wiki, which is housed at Bradley University. Before joining the faculty at Bradley, Dr. Stover was a Scientific Curator for TGD at Stanford University and a postdoc in ecology and evolutionary biology at Princeton University.
Teaching
BIO 151: Molecules to Cells, BIO 111: Introduction to Molecules to Cells, BIO 464: Cell Biology, BIO 475: Genomics, BIO 301: Biotechnology and Society
Scholarship
- Distinct cyclin genes define each stage of ciliate conjugation. Stover NA, Rice JD. Cell Cycle. 2011 May 15;10(10)
- Using NCBI BLAST. Stover NA, Cavalcanti AROCurrent Protocols Essential Laboratory Techniques 2009 June;11(1)
- Genome evolution: a double take for Paramecium. Chalker DL, Stover NA. Curr Biol. 2007 Feb 6;17(3):R97-9.
- Macronuclear genome sequence of the ciliate Tetrahymena thermophila, a model eukaryote. Eisen JA, Coyne RS, Wu M, Wu D, Thiagarajan M, Wortman JR, Badger JH, Ren Q, Amedeo P, Jones KM, Tallon LJ, Delcher AL, Salzberg SL, Silva JC, Haas BJ, Majoros WH, Farzad M, Carlton JM, Smith RK Jr, Garg J, Pearlman RE, Karrer KM, Sun L, Manning G, Elde NC, Turkewitz AP, Asai DJ, Wilkes DE, Wang Y, Cai H, Collins K, Stewart BA, Lee SR, Wilamowska K, Weinberg Z, Ruzzo WL, Wloga D, Gaertig J, Frankel J, Tsao CC, Gorovsky MA, Keeling PJ, Waller RF, Patron NJ, Cherry JM, Stover NA, Krieger CJ, del Toro C, Ryder HF, Williamson SC, Barbeau RA, Hamilton EP, Orias E.PLoS Biol. 2006 Sep;4(9):e286.
- On the paucity of duplicated genes in Caenorhabditis elegans operons. Cavalcanti AR, Stover NA, Landweber LF.J Mol Evol. 2006 Jun;62(6):765-71. Epub 2006 Apr 28.
- Spliced leader trans-splicing. Stover NA, Kaye MS, Cavalcanti AR.Curr Biol. 2006 Jan 10;16(1):R8-9. No abstract available.
- Tetrahymena Genome Database (TGD): a new genomic resource for Tetrahymena thermophila research. Stover NA, Krieger CJ, Binkley G, Dong Q, Fisk DG, Nash R, Sethuraman A, Weng S, Cherry JM. Nucleic Acids Res. 2006 Jan 1;34(Database issue):D500-3.