Anna Klimes

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Physical & Biological Sciences
Professor of Biology
357 Center for Sciences & Pharmacy
Phone: 413-796-2051

Education

B.S., University of Columbia, 1993
Ph.D., University of Ontario, 2006

Background

I came to Western New England by way of a postdoc in environmental microbiology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Before that, I’ve studied plants and their pathogens in locations ranging from the Andes of Colombia to a remote northern community in Ontario.

Interests

I am interested in applying newly available genomic resources towards answering basic questions about the development of the vascular wilt pathogen Verticillium dahliae.

Scholarly Works

Journal Articles

Duressa, D., Anchieta, A., Chen, D., Klimes, A., Garcia-Pedrajas, M. D., Dobinson K.F.D, and Klosterman, S.J. RNA-seq analyses of gene expression in the microsclerotia of Verticillium dahlia BMC Genomics 2013, 14:607 doi:10.1186/1471-2164-14-607

Klimes, A., Franks, A.E., Glaven, R.H., Tran, H., Barrett, C., Qiu, Y., Zengler, K., Lovley, D.R., 2010. Production of pilus-like filaments in Geobacter sulfurreducens in the absence of the type IV pilin protein PilA. FEMS Microbiology Lett 310(1): 62-8

Nagarajan, H., Butler, J., Klimes, A., Qiu, Y., Zengler, K., Ward, J., Young, N.D., Methe, B., Palsson, B. ?., Lovley, D. R., Barrett, C. L., 2010. De Novo Assembly of the C Complete Genome of an Enhanced Electricity-Producing Variant of Geobacter sulfurreducens Using Only Short Reads. PLoS ONE 5(6) e10922

Courses Taught

BIO 101 Organismal Biology
BIO 107 General Biology
BIO 201 Plant Biology
BIO 203 Microbiology
BIO 306 Genetics