Jennifer Armstrong, Ph.D.

Professor of Biology

Department:

Keck Science

jarmstrong@kecksci.claremont.edu

(909) 607-9716

(909) 621-8588

Website

Education
Research and Publications

Postdoc, University of California Santa Cruz; Ph.D., University of California San Diego and The Salk Institute for Biological Studies; B.S., New Mexico State University

Investigations of CHD1 function in transcription and development of Drosophila melanogaster. McDaniel IE, Lee JM, Berger MS, Hanagami CK, Armstrong JA. Genetics. 2008 Jan;178(1):583-7. doi: 10.1534/genetics.107.079038.
The Drosophila melanogaster CHD1 chromatin remodeling factor modulates global chromosome structure and counteracts HP1a and H3K9me2. Bugga L, McDaniel IE, Engie L, Armstrong JA. PLoS One. 2013;8(3):e59496. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0059496. Epub 2013 Mar 22.
Genetic screens for enhancers of brahma reveal functional interactions between the BRM chromatin-remodeling complex and the delta-notch signal transduction pathway in Drosophila. Armstrong JA, Sperling AS, Deuring R, Manning L, Moseley SL, Papoulas O, Piatek CI, Doe CQ, Tamkun JW. Genetics. 2005 Aug;170(4):1761-74. Epub 2005 Jun 8.
Genetic identification of a network of factors that functionally interact with the nucleosome remodeling ATPase ISWI. Burgio G, La Rocca G, Sala A, Arancio W, Di Gesù D, Collesano M, Sperling AS, Armstrong JA, van Heeringen SJ, Logie C, Tamkun JW, Corona DF. PLoS Genet. 2008 Jun 6;4(6):e1000089. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000089.
A key role for Chd1 in histone H3 dynamics at the 3' ends of long genes in yeast. Radman-Livaja M, Quan TK, Valenzuela L, Armstrong JA, van Welsem T, Kim T, Lee LJ, Buratowski S, van Leeuwen F, Rando OJ, Hartzog GA. PLoS Genet. 2012;8(7):e1002811. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002811. Epub 2012 Jul 12.