Advisor: Dr. Jacek Wower
Fields of Research: Biochemistry; Molecular, Structural and Computational Biology

Education: Biotechnology, M.S., University of Texas Health Center at Tyler
                       Stephen F. Austin State University (Texas)
                 Microbiology, B.S. Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
                 Graduate of the Texas Academy of Mathematics and Sciences,
                       University of North Texas, Denton, TX

Research areas: Alternative routes and methods of translation in prokaryotic systems; RNA structure and function; structure and function of ribosomal protein S1; comparative sequence analysis of RNA and protein; tmRNA DataBase (tmRDB).

Publications:

Andersen ES, Rosenblad MA, Larsen N, Westergaard JC, Burks J, Wower IK, Wower J, Gorodkin J, Samuelsson T, Zwieb C. The tmRDB and SRPDB resources.
Nucleic Acids Res. 2006 Jan 1;34(Database issue):D163-8.

Burks J, Zwieb C, Muller F, Wower I, Wower J.Comparative 3-D modeling of tmRNA.
BMC Mol Biol. 2005 Jun 15;6(1):14.

Zwieb C, Gorodkin J, Knudsen B, Burks J, Wower J. tmRDB (tmRNA database).
Nucleic Acids Res. 2003 Jan 1;31(1):446-7.