Education

Ph.D. in Plant Pathology from University of Wisconsin Madison 2003

B.S. in Microbiology from University of California at San Diego 1997  

B.A. in Psychology from University of California at San Diego 1997

Teaching Interests

Genetics

Inquiry based non-majors courses

Evolutionary Developmental Biology

Research Interests

In a broad sense, my lab studies how genetics at the molecular level lead to the phenotypic differences that distinguish plant species. 

Current projects include:

-Developing Streptanthus polygaloides as a model plant system for evolutionary developmental biology

-Characterizing papaya genes involved in inflorescence architecture by generating transgenic Arabidopsis plants

-Tracking fluorescently labeled proteins involved in flowering over ontogeny

Professional Accomplishments

Spitzer C., Reyes F. C., Buono R., Sliwinski M. K., Haas T. J., Otegui M. S. (2009) The ESCRT-related CHMP1A and B proteins mediate multivesicular body sorting of auxin carriers in Arabidopsis and are required for plant development. The Plant Cell 21: 749-766.

Bosch, J. A., Heo, K., Sliwinski, M. K., Baum, D. A. (2008) An exploration of LEAFY expression in independent evolutionary origins of rosette flowering in Brassicaceae. American Journal of Botany 95:286-293.

Sliwinski, M. K., Bosch, J. A., Yoon, H., von Baltazar, M., Baum, D. A. (2007) The role of two LEAFY paralogs from Idahoa scapigera (Brassicaceae) in the evolution of a derived plant architecture. The Plant Journal 51:211-219.

Haas, T. J., Sliwinski, M. K., Martinez, D. E., Preuss, M., Takashi, U., Nielsen, E., Odorizzi, G., Otegui, M. S. (2007) The Arabidopsis AAA ATPase SKD1 is involved in multivesicular endosome function and interacts with its positive regulator LYST-INTERACTING PROTEIN5. The Plant Cell 19:1295-1312.

Sliwinski, M. K., White, M. A., Maizel, A., Weigel, Baum, D. A. (2006) Evolutionary divergence of LFY function in the mustards Arabidopsis thaliana and Leavenworthia crassa. Plant Molecular Biology 62:279-289.

Simon, H. M., Jahn, C. E., Bergerud, L. T., Sliwinski, M. K., Weimer, P. J., Willis, D. K., and Goodman, R. M. (2005) Cultivation of mesophilic soil Crenarchaeotes in enrichment cultures from plant roots. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 71:4751-4760.

Sliwinski, M. K., Goodman, R. M. (2004) Spatial heterogeneity of crenarchaeal assemblages within mesophilic soil ecosystems as revealed by PCR-single-stranded conformation polymorphism profiling. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 70:1811-1820.

Sliwinski, M. K., Goodman, R. M. (2004) Comparison of crenarchaeal consortia inhabiting the rhizosphere of diverse terrestrial plants with those in bulk soil in native environments. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 70:1821-1826.

Paulsen, I. T., Nguyen, L., Sliwinski, M. K., Rabus, R., Saier, M. H. (2000) Microbial genome analyses: Comparative transport capabilities in eighteen prokaryotes. Journal of Molecular Biology 301:75-100.

Saier, M. H., Jr., Eng, B. H., Fard, S., Garg, J., Haggerty, D. A., Hutchinson, W. J., Jack, D. L., Lai, E. C., Nusinew, D. P., Omar, A. M., Pao, S. S., Paulsen, I. T., Quan, J. A., Sliwinski, M., Tseng, T-. T., Wachi, S., and Young, G. B. (1999) Phylogenetic characterization of novel transport protein families revealed by genome analyses. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1422: 1-56.

Paulsen, I. T., Sliwinski, M. K., Nelissen, B., Goffeau, A., and Saier, M. H., Jr. (1998) Unified inventory of established and putative transporters encoded within the complete genome of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. FEBS Letters 430:116-125.

Paulsen, I. T., Sliwinski, M. K., Reizer, J., and Saier, M. H., Jr. (1998) Microbial genome analyses: Global comparisons of transport capabilities based on phylogenies, bioenergetics and substrate specificities. Journal of Molecular Biology 277:573-592.

Saier, M. H., Jr., Paulsen, I. T., Sliwinski, M. K., Pao S. S., Skurray R. A., and Nikaido H. (1998) Evolutionary origins of multidrug and drug-specific efflux pumps in bacteria. FASEB Journal 12:265-274.

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