Hood, Michael - Amherst College

个人简介

Ph.D., North Carolina State University (1996) M.S., University of Virginia (1992) B.A., University of Virginia (1991)

研究领域

My research focuses on the sugars that coat cells. Sugars cover the surfaces of all of the cells in our bodies, and their structures provide meaningful information about cellular identity. For instance, sugars cover our red blood cells, and their structures are responsible for differentiating between A, B and O blood types. As another example, the structures of sugars on disease-causing bacteria look vastly different from the sugars on human cells. Sugars are thus interesting targets for selective modification and analysis. Since sugars are difficult to study by most conventional methods (e.g. genetics), the use of chemical approaches with small molecules containing chemical handles, in combination with other technologies, is necessary to alter and analyze these biomolecules.

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Hood, M. E., Antonovics, J., Wolf, M., Giraud, T., Abbate, J.L. 2017. Sympatry and interference of divergent Microbotryum lineages. (in review). Bruns, E., Antonovics, J., and Hood, M. E. 2017. Disease at species range limits: co-distribution of alpine plants and their vector-transmitted fungal pathogen. (in review). Antonovics, J. and Hood, M. E. 2017-18. Linnaeus, smut disease, and living contagion. Archives of Natural History (in press) Coelho, M. A., Bakkeren, G., Sun, S., Hood, M. E. and Giraud, T. 2017. Fungal Sex: The Basidiomycota. In : The Fungal Kingdom. Eds, Joseph Heitman, Barbara Howlett, Pedro Crous, Eva Stukenbrock, Timothy James, and Neil Gow. ASP Press. Bruns, E., Antonovics, J., Carasso, V., and Hood, M. E. 2017. Transmission and temporal dynamics of anther-smut disease (Microbotryum) on alpine carnation (Dianthus pavonius). Journal of Ecology (in press). Horns, F., Petit, E., Hood, M. E. 2017. Massive expansion of Gypsy-like retrotransposons in a lineage of Microbotryum. Genome Biology and Evolution 9: 363-371. Petit*, E., Silver*, C., Cornille, A., Gladieux, P., Rosenthal, L., Bruns, E., Yee, S., Antonovics, J., Giraud, T., Hood, M. E. 2017. Co-occurrence and hybridization of anther-smut pathogens specialized on Dianthus hosts. (* co-first authors) Molecular Ecology 26: 1877-1890. Branco, S., Badouin, H., Gouzy, J., de la Vega, R. R., Branca, A., Aguileta, G., Siguenza, S., Brandenburg, J., Coelho, M. A., Hood, M. E., and Giraud, T. 2017. Evolutionary strata on young mating-type chromosomes despite the lack of sexual antagonism. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences doi: 10.1073/pnas.1701658114. Hood, M. E., Antonovics, J., Wolf, M., Giraud, T., Abbate, J.L. 2017. Sympatry and interference of divergent Microbotryum lineages. (in review). Bruns, E., Antonovics, J., and Hood, M. E. 2017. Disease at species range limits: co-distribution of alpine plants and their vector-transmitted fungal pathogen. (in review). Antonovics, J. and Hood, M. E. 2017-18. Linnaeus, smut disease, and living contagion. Archives of Natural History (in press) Coelho, M. A., Bakkeren, G., Sun, S., Hood, M. E. and Giraud, T. 2017. Fungal Sex: The Basidiomycota. In : The Fungal Kingdom. Eds, Joseph Heitman, Barbara Howlett, Pedro Crous, Eva Stukenbrock, Timothy James, and Neil Gow. ASP Press. Bruns, E., Antonovics, J., Carasso, V., and Hood, M. E. 2017. Transmission and temporal dynamics of anther-smut disease (Microbotryum) on alpine carnation (Dianthus pavonius). Journal of Ecology (in press). Horns, F., Petit, E., Hood, M. E. 2017. Massive expansion of Gypsy-like retrotransposons in a lineage of Microbotryum. Genome Biology and Evolution 9: 363-371. Petit*, E., Silver*, C., Cornille, A., Gladieux, P., Rosenthal, L., Bruns, E., Yee, S., Antonovics, J., Giraud, T., Hood, M. E. 2017. Co-occurrence and hybridization of anther-smut pathogens specialized on Dianthus hosts. (* co-first authors) Molecular Ecology 26: 1877-1890. Branco, S., Badouin, H., Gouzy, J., de la Vega, R. R., Branca, A., Aguileta, G., Siguenza, S., Brandenburg, J., Coelho, M. A., Hood, M. E., and Giraud, T. 2017. Evolutionary strata on young mating-type chromosomes despite the lack of sexual antagonism. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences doi: 10.1073/pnas.1701658114.