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Elizabeth R Everman

Elizabeth R Everman

 Assistant Professor, School of Biological Sciences Richards Hall 417A Ph.D., Biology - Kansas State University, 2017

RESEARCH:

Organisms experience a wide range of stressors that influence their ability to reproduce, survive, and adapt over time. My research focuses on the roles that genetic variation, phenotypic plasticity, and behavior play in response to anthropogenic sources of stress. Current areas of research include characterizing the genetic control of resistance to copper toxicity and dissecting the genetic relationship between physiological and behavioral responses to heavy metal stress. My work leverages the Drosophila melanogaster model system through a combination of large mapping populations and wild-collected populations to determine the genetic and evolutionary factors that influence physiological and behavioral copper stress resistance.

Selected Publications:

Everman, E. R. (2024) CRISPR-Cas9 and Sickle Cell Anemia. National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science.

Everman, E. R. and Macdonald, S. J. (2024) Gene expression variation underlying tissue-specific responses to copper stress in Drosophila melanogaster. Genes|Genomes|Genetics 14: jkae015.

Everman, E. R., Macdonald, S. J., and Kelly, J. K. (2023) The genetic basis of adaptation to copper pollution in Drosophila melanogaster. Frontiers in Genetics 14: 1144221.

Felmlee, K. R., Macdonald, S. J., and Everman, E. R. (2022) Pre-adult exposure to three heavy metals leads to changes in the head transcriptome of adult flies. microPublication Biology 10: 17912.

Everman, E. R., Cloud-Richardson, K. M., and Macdonald, S. J. (2021) Characterizing the genetic basis of copper toxicity in Drosophila reveals a complex pattern of allelic, regulatory, and behavioral variation. Genetics 217: 1-20.

Gleason, J. M., Roy, R. P., Everman, E. R., Gleason, T. C., and Morgan, T. J. (2019) Phenology of Drosophila species across a temperate growing season and implications for diurnal behavior. PLoS One 14: e0216601.

Everman, E. R., McNeil, C. L., Hackett, J. L., Bain, C. L., and Macdonald, S. J. (2019) Dissection of complex, fitness-related traits in multiple Drosophila mapping populations offers insight into the genetic control of stress resistance. Genetics 211: 1449-1467.