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Professor Charlene Forest

Publications

Forest, C.L. and Ojakian, G.K.  Mating structure differences demonstrated by freeze-fracture analysis of fusion-defective Chlamydomonas mutants.  J. Protozool. (1989).  36, 548-556.

Forest, C.L.  Genetic control of plasma membrane adhesion and fusion in Chlamydomonas gametes.  J. Cell Sci. (1987).  88, 613-621.

Forest, C.L.  Mating structure-cell adhesion molecules - their role in fertilization in Chlamydomonas.  Annals of the N.Y. Acad. Sci. (1987).  494-497.

 

Abstracts and Presentations

13th Int. Conf. Cell and Molec. Biol. of Chlamydomonas:

Munevver Aksoy and Charlene Forest.  Cloning Gamete Fusion Genes in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.

 

Charlene L. Forest and Munevver Aksoy.  Gordon Conference on Cell-cell  Fusion.  July 1-6, 2007.  Cloning Gamete Fusion Genes in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.

  

Munevver Aksoy and Charlene L. Forest. 

NE Society of Developmental Biology Meeting, April 27-28, 2007.  Cloning Gamete Fusion Gene(s) in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

 

Graduate Center Science Day (4/07):and Brooklyn College Science Day (5/07)

Munevver Aksoy and Charlene L. Forest.  Cloning a Chlamydomonas fusion gene

 

12th Int. Conf. Cell and Molec. Biol. of Chlamydomonas, (2006) presentations

Munevver Aksoy, Moeun Son, Nuenyan Lam, and Charlene L. Forest.  Cloning Genes Involved in Gamete Fusion and Signaling in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

  

Munevver Aksoy, Charlene L. Forest and Shaneen M. Singh.  Homology Modeling of PH Domain Proteins in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

 

Aksoy, M. and Forest C.L.  Cloning a gamete fusion gene in Chlamydomonas.  11th Int. Conf. Cell and Molec. Biol. of Chlamydomonas, (2004).

Aksoy, M. and Forest C.L.  Cloning a gamete fusion gene using insertional fusion-defective mutants.  New York Area Plant Molecular Biology Meeting.  (2004).

Aksoy, M. and Forest, C.L.  Cloning a gamete fusion gene using insertional fusion-defective mutants.  67th Annual Meeting of the Northeast section of the American Society of Plant Biologists.  (2003).

Aksoy, M. and Forest, C.L.  Cloning the Chlamydomonas gamete fusion gene.  Brooklyn College Science Research Day, (2003).

Navarro, K. Aksoy, M. and Forest, C.L.  Genetic analysis of fusion-defective insertional mutants using artificial fusion techniques.  Brooklyn College Science Research Day, (2003.)

Forest, C.L. and Mims, D.C.  Cloning a gametic fusion-associated gene in Chlamydomonas by genomic complementation.  Brooklyn College Science Research Day, (2001).

Noel, C., Jean-Louis, M., and Forest, C.L.  Isolation of a fusion gene using genomic complementation.  Brooklyn College Science Research Day, 1998.

Han, C., La, T. and Forest, C.L.  Dissecting the stages of mating structure adhesion and fusion using fusion-defective mutants.  Eighth Int. Conf. Cell and Molec. Biol. of Chlamydomonas, (1998).

Sakur, N.A. and Forest, C. L.  The effect of Gibberellin A7 (GA7) on gametogenesis of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.  61st Annual Meeting of the Northeast section of the American Society of Plant Physiologists, (1997).

Burks-Agoro, K.E. and Forest, C.L.  The effects of gadolinium (GdCl3) on mating of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.  61st Annual Meeting of the Northeast section of the American Society of Plant Physiologists, (1997).

Viskaduraki, M.F. and Forest, C.L.  Plasma membrane surface polypeptides of vegetative cells, gametes and activated gametes of C. reinhardtii.  Seventh Int. Conf. Cell and Molec. Biol. of Chlamydomonas, (1996).

Viskaduraki, M.F. and Forest, C.L.  Surface labeling the Chlamydomonas plasma membrane.  Differences in polypeptides of vegetative cells, gametes and activated gametes.  (1995).  Mol. Biol. of the Cell.  6, 180a.

Viskaduraki, M. and Forest, C.  Mapping Chlamydomonas reinhardtii surface proteins: comparison of vegetative and gametic cell membrane maps.  (1995).  Plant. Phys. 108, 122. 

 

Grants

Cloning and analysis of a gamete fusion gene.  National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.  (5/07 - 4/10).

Doctoral Program Membership

Ph.D. program in Biology (subprogram in Molecular Cellular, and Developmental Biology) 

 http://web.gc.cuny.edu/Biology/mcd/index.htm

 

Ph.D. program in Biochemistry 

http://web.gc.cuny.edu/biochemistry/index.html

 

Courses:

Biology U714.01:  Graduate Cell Biology lecture

Biology 793.02: Model Systems in Biology

Tutorials in electron microscopy

Biology 17:  Undergraduate Cell Biology lecture (for majors)

Biology 17.1:  Undergraduate Cell Biology lab

Core Studies 3.21   Biology lecture for non-majors

 

 

 

Studying Chlamydomonas Mating at Brooklyn College of CUNY