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Professor Linda D. Strausbaugh
picture Professor Linda D. Strausbaugh
University of Connecticut
Molecular & Cell Biology, BH 203
354 Mansfield Road, Unit 2131
Storrs, CT 06269-2131

Telephone: (860) 486-8905
Fax: (860) 486-1936
E-Mail: LINDA.STRAUSBAUGH@uconn.edu

Education: Ph.D. Wesleyan University; Postdoctoral study, Johns Hopkins and University of Pennsylvania

Research Interests:

Molecular evolution of non-coding DNA and multigene families; forensic identity testing (humans, plants, microbes); historical genomics.

Selected Publications:

Strausbaugh, L. 2006. Starting a New Professional Science Masters. Proceedings of the Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools, in press.

Strausbaugh, L. 2005. "Microarrays Provide Fast and Sensitive Genetic Fingerprint for Forensic Investigators". Microarray Bulletin 10:27-31

Crayton, M.E., C.E. Ladd, M. Sommer, G. Hampikian, and L.D. Strausbaugh. 2004. An organizational model of transcription factor binding sites for a histone promoter in D. melanogaster. In Silico Biology 4:537-548.

Strausbaugh, L.D. 2002, 2006. Concerted Evolution, in Encyclopedia of Genetics, eds, Sydney Brenner and Jeffrey Miller, Academic Press.

Strausbaugh, L.D. and S.M. Williams. 1996. High density of an SAR-associated motif differentiates heterochromatin from euchromatin. J. Theor. Biol. 183:159-167.

Berg, C.M., G. Wang, L.D. Strausbaugh, and D.E. Berg. 1993. Transposon- facilitated sequencing of DNAs cloned in plasmids. Meth. Enzymol. 218:279-306.

Fitch, D.H.A. and L.D. Strausbaugh. 1993. Low codon bias and high rates of synonymous substitution in Drosophila hydei and D. melanogaster histone genes. Mol. Biol. Evol. 10:397-413.