Margaret Woodhouse

Vitae

Education
Ph.D.,
Plant Biology, UC Berkeley.
Bachelor of Science,
Molecular Environmental Biology, UC Berkeley.

Research

Project manager, host-gene mobilization in the Brassicales. Comparative genomics in plants, epigenetic mechanisms of genome dominance.
Michael Freeling, UC Berkeley.
Postdoctoral work in epigenetics, polyploidy, and genome dosage in Arabidopsis.
Luca Comai, UC Davis.
Graduate work studying epigenetic regulation of Mutator transposons in maize.
Damon Lisch, UC Berkeley.

Skills

Perl, some Python
Genome alignment, including RNA-seq (
GSNAP), small RNA-seq (Bowtie), ChIP-seq (PeakRanger, MACS), bisulfite sequence mapping, and HiC mapping.
Laboratory work, particularly DNA, mRNA, and small RNA analysis
Field and greenhouse work with maize, Arabidopsis, Brassica rapa
Scientific illustration/design
Web design
Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator
HTML/CSS
Grant writing
Financial and budgetary oversight for NSF funds
Personnel management
Teaching
Student mentoring
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