Craig T. Woodard
Professor
413-538-2724
cwoodard@mtholyoke.edu
Office: Carr 120E
Lab: Carr 116
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EDUCATION
B.S. in Biology, Bates College, Lewiston , ME 1986
M.S. in Biology, Yale University, December, 1988
M.Phil. in Biology, Yale University, December, 1988
Ph.D. in Biology, Yale University, November, 1992
POSTDOCTORAL TRAINING
Laboratory of Dr. Carl S. Thummel, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah, September, 1992 - August, 1995
RESEARCH INTERESTS
1. Control of animal development by steroid hormones
2. Genetic regulation of sexual behavior
COURSES
Biology 145 Biology in the Age of the Human Genome Project Spring
Biology 210 Genetics and Molecular Biology Fall
Biology 340 Eukaryotic Molecular Biology Spring
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Pick, L., Anderson, W.R., Shulz, J., and Woodard, C.T. 2006. The Ftz-F1 family:
orphan nuclear receptors regulated by novel protein-protein interactions.
In: Taneja, R., editor. Nuclear receptors in development. Vol. 16. (Advances in Developmental Biology Series). San Diego, CA: Elsevier BV. pp. 255-296.

Fortier, T.M., Chatterjee, R., Klinedinst, S., Baehrecke, E.H., and
Woodard, C.T. 2006. how functions in leg development during Drosophila
metamorphosis. Developmental Dynamics. 235: 2248-2259

Fortier, T.M., Vasa, P.P., and Woodard, C.T. 2003. Orphan Nuclear Receptor FTZ-F1 is Required for Muscle-Driven Morphogenetic Events at the Prepupal-Pupal Transition in Drosophila melanogaster. Developmental Biology. 257: 153-165.

Lee C.-Y., Simon C.R., Woodard, C.T. and Baehrecke E.H. 2002. Genetic Mechanism for the Stage- and Tissue-Specific Regulation of Steroid-Triggered Programmed Cell Death in Drosophila. Developmental Biology. 252: 138-148.

Gaines, P, Tompkins, L., Woodard, C.T., and Carlson, J.R. 2000. quick-to-court, a Drosophila Mutant with Elevated Levels of Sexual Behavior, is Defective in a Predicted Coiled-Coil Protein. Genetics 154: 1627-1637.

Gaines, P., Woodard, C.T., and Carlson, J.R. 1999. An Enhancer Trap Line Identifies the Drosophila Homolog of the L37a Ribosomal Protein. Gene 239: 137-143.

Broadus, J., **McCabe, J., Endrizzi, B., Thummel, C.S., and Woodard, C.T. 1999. The Drosophila ßFTZ-F1 orphan nuclear receptor provides competence for stage-specific responses to the steroid hormone ecdysone. Molecular Cell 3: 143-149.

Woodard, C.T., Baehrecke, E.H., and Thummel, C.S. 1994. A Molecular Mechanism for the Stage-Specificity of the Drosophila Prepupal Genetic Response to Ecdysone. Cell 79: 607-615.

Riesgo-Escovar, J., Woodard. C., and Carlson. J. 1994. Olfactory Physiology in the Drosophila Maxillary Palps Requires the Visual System Gene rdgB. J. Comp. Physiol. 175: 687-693.

Baehrecke, E.H., Woodard, C.T., and Thummel, C.S. 1994. Temporal Differences in Ecdysone-Regulated Gene Expression at the Onset of Drosophila Metamorphosis. In Perspectives in Comparative Endocrinology. ed. K.G. Davey, R.E. Peter, and S.S. Tobe) pp. 395-399. National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa

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