Research Summary
Our work uses the genetic model organism Drosophila melanogaster to examine chromosome structure/function relationships. We have several ongoing projects that include: identifying the mechanisms that cells use to pair homologous chromosomes; understanding the factors that influence chromosome breakage and how germline cells respond to chromosome breakage; and, exploring the mitotic problems associated with ring (circular) chromosomes and how cells and organisms deal with those problems.
Biography
Kent Golic received a B.S. degree from Kansas State University in 1980 and a P.h.D. from the University of Washington in 1986. He did post doctoral work at the University of Chicago and joined the faulty in the Biology Department at the University of Utah in 1990.