Laboratory of Todd Vision
Department of Biology
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Eric Ganko

Email: ganko@email.unc.edu Phone: (919) 843-4508 Office: 122 Coker Hall

Eric is from Laurel, NY, on the East End of Long Island. He was an undergraduate at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, FL, and recently completed his PhD in genetics at the University of Georgia. While at UGA he worked in John McDonald's lab on the contribution of retrotransposons to gene and genome evolution. Eric joined the lab September 2004 as a SPIRE Fellow.

Eric is studying the evolution of gene order microrearrangements in yeast and arabidopsis, particularly the effect of such rearrangements on gene expression and the role of natural selection in sculpting expression domains that span multiple genes.

Prior publications:

• Ganko EW, Greene CS, Lewis JA, Bhattacharjee V, McDonald JF. 2006. LTR retrotransposon-gene associations in Drosophila melanogaster. Jour of Mol Evol. 62(1):111-120.
• DeBarry JD, Ganko EW, McCarthy, EM, McDonald JF. 2006. The contribution of LTR retrotransposon sequences to gene evolution in Mus musculus. Mol .Biol. Evol, 23(3):479-481.
• Franchini, LF, Ganko EW and McDonald JF (2004) Retrotransposon-gene associations are widespread among Drosophila melanogaster populations. Molecular Biology and Evolution 21, 1323-31.
• Gao, L, McCarthy EM, Ganko EW and McDonald JF. 2004. Evolutionary history of Oryza sativa LTR retrotransposons: a preliminary survey of the rice genome sequences. BMC Genomics 5, 18.
• Ganko EW, Bhattacharjee V, Schliekelman P and McDonald JF (2003) Evidence for the contribution of LTR retrotransposons to C.elegans gene evolution. Molecular Biology and Evolution 20, 1925-31.
• McCollum AM, Ganko EW, Barrass PA, Rodriguez JM and McDonald JF (2002) Evidence for the adaptive significance of an LTR retrotransposon sequence in a Drosophila heterochromatic gene. BMC Evolutionary Biology 2, 5.
• Ganko, EW, Fielman KT, and McDonald JF (2001) Evolutionary history of Cer elements and their impact on the C. elegans genome. Genome Research 11, 2066-74.
• Pyankov VI, Voznesenskaya EV, Kuz'min AN, Ku MSB, Ganko E, Franceschi VR, Black CC and Edwards GE. (2000) Occurrence of C3 and C4 Photosynthesis in Cotyledons and Leaves of Salsola species (Chenopodiaceae). Photosynthesis Research 63, 69-84.