Shawn S. Jackson
1st year graduate student
3rd year of MSTP

EDUCATION

• B.S., B.A., 2006, University of Arizona
  Molecular and Cellular Biology, Political Science

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

• Australia (BRAVO! Program), Summer 2005
  Advisor - Dr. Anna Koltunow
  Project - early plant development using apomixis as a model developmental system
• University of Arizona, 2004-2006
  Advisor - Dr. Ramin Yadegari
  Project - studying the mechanisms of early plant development with the attention towards the role of Polycomb-group proteins in the control of early seed development
• University of Arizona, 2003
  Advisor - Dr. Robert Sloviter
  Project - studying the role of the hippocampus in epilepsy

PUBLICATIONS

• Wang D, Tyson MD, Jackson SS, Yadegari R. Partially redundant functions of two SET-domain polycomb-group proteins in controlling initiation of seed development in Arabidopsis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 103:13244-13249, 2006.