Associate Professor
Erin S. Kelleher Meisel
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- School: University of Houston
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- Department: Biology
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Location:
4800 Calhoun Rd
Houston, TX 77004 - Dates at University of Houston: April 2014 - October 2019
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This was the worst professor I have ever had! He is incapable of teaching or helping students to understand the material. I took this class with two other professors, Lekven and Lin, and Lekven was the only good one out of the three. If you want to learn the material and care about your GPA, don't take this professor. I would never take his class again!
Biography
University of Houston - Biology
Education
Ph.D., University of Arizona
B.S./B.A., University of Virginia
Dr. Erin Kelleher is interested in the relationship between transposable elements (TEs) and their hosts’ genomes. TEs are genetics parasites, that cause deleterious mutations, DNA damage and genetic instability. They are also associated with the onset and progression of many tumor types. A broad range of organisms, from humans to bacteria, regulate the activity of transposable elements through small RNAs. Despite these ill effects, TEs are enormously successful in an evolutionary sense, inhabiting nearly all genomes and recurrently invading new genomes through horizontal transfer. Kelleher’s lab uses Drosophila melanogaster as a model to examine how small RNA mediated silencing evolves to maintain genome integrity.
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