Faculty and Staff

Title: Visiting Assistant Professor

Education:
Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the University of Wyoming, 2001
B.S. in Recombinant Gene Technology, SUNY Fredonia, 1995

Areas of Specialty:

Research Interests:

Recent Publications:

Hillwig M., Contento A.L., Meyer A., Ebany D., Bassham D.C., MacIntosh G. (2011) RNS2, a conserved member of the RNase T2 family, is necessary for ribosomal RNA decay in plants Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 108, 1093-1098.

Contento A.L. and Bassham D.C. (2010) Increase in catalase-3 activity as a response to use of alternative catabolic substrates during sucrose starvation. Plant Physiol. Biochem. 48 (4), 232-238.

Xiong Y., Contento A.L. and Bassham D.C. (2007) Disruption of autophagy results in constitutive oxidative stress in Arabidopsis. Autophagy. 3, 257-258.

Xiong, Y., Contento, A.L., Phan, N.P. and Bassham, D.C. (2006) Degradation of oxidized proteins by autophagy during oxidative stress in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiol., 143, 291-299.

Xiong Y., Contento A.L. and Bassham D.C. (2005) AtATG18a is required for the formation of autophagosomes during nutrient stress and senescence in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant J., 42, 535-546.

Contento A.L., Xiong Y. and Bassham D.C. (2005) Visualization of autophagy in Arabidopsis using the fluorescent dye monodansylcadaverine and a GFP-AtATG8e fusion protein. Plant J., 42, 598-608.

Contento A.L., Kim S.J. and Bassham D.C. (2004) Transcriptome profiling of the response of Arabidopsis thaliana suspension culture cells to sucrose starvation. Plant Physiol., 135, 2330-2347.