Austen Barnett
Austen Barnett
Post Doctoral ResearcherAusten.Barnett@desales.edu
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Current Position: Associate Professor, DeSales University
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Education:
B.A., Biology. University of Southern Indiana
Ph.D., Biology. University of Southern Illinois Carbondale
Research Interests:Austen was a postdoc in the lab from 2014-2017. Austen performed PhD research in mite evolution and development with Richard Thomas at the Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. Working with the cricket Gryllus bimaculatus, Austen studied the role of Hox genes in germ cell specification, and applied RNA-Seq to the problem of axial patterning and germ cell development.
Austen is currently an Associate Professor in the Biology Department at DeSales University.
Publications while at Extavour Lab:
Establishment of CRISPR/Cas9-based knock-in in a hemimetabolous insect: targeted gene tagging in the cricket Gryllus bimaculatus.
Matsuoka Y., Nakamura, T., Watanabe, T., Barnett, A.A., Tomonari S., Ylla G., Whittle C.A., Noji, S., Mito T., and Extavour, C.G. Development, 152(1): dev199746 (2024).
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Insights into the genomic evolution of insects from cricket genomes.
Ylla G., Nakamura T., Itoh T., Kajitani R., Atsuhi T., Sayuri T., Tetsuya B., Yoshiyasu I., Watanabe T., Fuketa M., Matsuoka Y., Barnett, A., Noji S., Mito T. and Extavour C.G. Communications Biology, 4(1):733 (2021).
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