Erickson, James
individual record
Associate Professor
Positions:
- Associate Professor, Biology, College of Science
overview
Alternative developmental fates are often determined by small differences in the concentrations of signaling molecules. In many cases, cells respond to these signals within narrowly defined temporal windows and are unresponsive to the same signal molecules at other times in development. A number of aspects of Drosophila sex determination make it an ideal experimental system to study how strict temporal controls and small quantitative differences in protein concentration can elicit different developmental fates.
education and training
- University of California, Berkeley - (Berkeley, California, United States), Postdoctoral Training 1994
- Princeton University - (Princeton, New Jersey, United States), Postdoctoral Training 1990
- Ph.D. in Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin - Madison - (Madison, Wisconsin, United States) 1989
- B.S. in Environmental Toxicology, University of California, Davis - (Davis, California, United States) 1981
selected publications
Academic Articles27
- Mahadeveraju, S., Jung, Y., & Erickson, J. W. (2020). Evidence That Runt Acts as a Counter-Repressor of Groucho During Drosophila melanogaster Primary Sex Determination. 10(7), g3.401384.2020-2496.
- Mateos, M., Silva, N. O., Ramirez, P., Higareda-Alvear, V. M., Aramayo, R., & Erickson, J. W. (2019). Effect of heritable symbionts on maternally-derived embryo transcripts.. Sci Rep. 9(1), 8847.
- Mateos, M., Silva, N. O., Ramirez, P., Higareda-Alvear, V. M., Aramayo, R., & Erickson, J. W. (2019). Effect of heritable symbionts on maternally-derived embryo transcripts. 607317.
- Erickson, J. W (2016). Primary Sex Determination in Drosophila melanogaster Does Not Rely on the Male-Specific Lethal Complex.. 202(2), 541-549.
- Salz, H. K., & Erickson, J. W (2010). Sex determination in Drosophila: The view from the top.. 4(1), 60-70.
Chapters3
- Carol A. Gross, .., David B. Straus, .., James W. Erickson, .., & Takashi Yura. (1990). The Function and Regulation of Heat Shock Proteins in Escherichia coli. Morimoto, R. I., Tissieres, A., & Georgopoulos, C. (Eds.), Stress Proteins in Biology and Medicine. 167-189. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press.
- Gross, C., Cowing, D., Erickson, J., Grossman, A., Straus, D., Walter, W., & Zhou, Y. (1987). Regulation of the Heat-Shock Response in Escherichia coli. Poste, G., & Crooke, S. T. (Eds.), New Frontiers in the Study of Gene Functions. 21-32. Springer US.
- Gross, C. A., Cowing, D. W., & Erickson, J. W. (1987). The Heat Shock Response in Escherichia coli. Renzikoff, W. S., Burgess, R. R., Dahlberg, J. E., Gross, C. A., Record, M. T., & Wickens, M. P. (Eds.), RNA polymerase and the regulation of transcription proceedings of the Sixteenth Steenbock Symposium held July 13th through July 17th, 1986, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, U.S.A.. 151-157. Elsevier Publishing Company.
researcher on
Principal Investigator1
- Signal Amplification Mechanisms In Primary Sex Determination awarded by National Science Foundation 2011 - 2015
awards and honors
recent teaching activities
- BICH491 Hnr-research Instructor
- BICH491 Research Instructor
- BIOL111 Introductory Biology I Instructor
- BIOL213 Hnr-molecular Cell Biol Instructor
- BIOL213 Molecular Cell Biol Instructor
chaired theses and dissertations
- Rajendren, Jayashre (2017-12). A TRANSGENIC MODEL FOR IN VIVO GENETIC ANALYSIS: CHARACTERIZING THE TRANSIENTLY-ACTING PROMOTER SWITCH THAT CONTROLS DROSOPHILA SEX DETERMINATION. (Doctoral Dissertation)
- Mahadevaraju, Sharvani (2015-08). X-Signal amplification by Runt mediated antagonism of Groucho in Drosophila. (Doctoral Dissertation)
- Silva, Pinnaduwage O (2013-12). Maternally Inherited Endosymbiotic Bacteria Of Drosophila : Spiroplasma and Wolbachia. (Doctoral Dissertation)
- Gonzalez Rojos, Alejandra Noemi (2012-05). Somatic Sex Determination in D. melanogaster: Insights in the Establishment to Maintenance Transition. (Doctoral Dissertation)
Email
jwerickson@tamu.edu
First Name
James
Last Name
Erickson
mailing address
Texas A&M University; Biology; 3258 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-3258
USA