Kristi Dixon Yow
Background & Contact Information
Research Technician/Lab Manager (2019 – Present)
Education: BS Biology UNC-CH
Email: kristi18@live.unc.edu
cno∆CRISPR mutant
Research Information
Working with Kia Perez-Vale to determine the mechanisms by which Canoe regulates morphogenesis and define how it in turn is regulated by Rap1 and its GEFs.
Publications
Rap1 regulates apical contractility to allow embryonic morphogenesis without tissue disruption and acts in part via Canoe-independent mechanisms. Molecular Biology of the Cell. (2023) 34:ar7. doi: 10.1091/mbc.E22-05-0176. *co-first authors
Perez-Vale, KZ., Yow, K,D., Johnson, R, I,. Byrnes, A.E., Finegan, T.M., Slep, K.C., and Peifer, M. (2021) Multivalent interactions make adherens junction-cytoskeletal linkage robust during morphogenesis. Journal of Cell Biology 220:e202104087..
Michelle E. St. John. Kristi E. Dixon. Christopher H. Martin (2020) Oral shelling within an adaptive radiation of pupfishes: Testing the adaptive function of a novel nasal protrusion and behavioural preference. Journal of Fish Biology https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.14344
