Craig Woodard, Ph.D.

Professor of Biological Sciences & Associate Dean of Faculty for Science

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

Woodard, C., Alcorta, E., and Carlson, J. (2007). The rdgB Gene of  Drosophila: A Link Between Vision and Olfaction, J. Neurogenetics 21:  291-305 (Reissued).

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.