Jayme Johnson

I earned my BA from Carleton College in 2006. While at Carleton, I worked in Susan Singer's lab, where I used RNAi to knock down gene expression in pea to study the role of our gene of interest during various aspects of plant development. I came to Duke through the Developmental Biology Training Program in 2006, intent on studying plant development. I soon realized my interests were more deep-seated in cell biology as they apply to development (in any system), and it is through genetic approaches that get at the underlying cellular mechanisms that are most exciting to me. I joined Danny Lew's lab, where we work on issues of cell polarity and cell cycle control in budding yeast, S. cerevisiae. My project focuses on the establishment and maintenance of cell polarity, an issue important not only during budding and mating in yeast, but in polarized growth during metazoan development, as well.

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