Ruth E. Timme

 

Education

The University of Texas at Austin            Plant Biology                                             Ph.D.               2006

San Francisco State University                  Biology (Ecology and Systematics)             M.A.                2001

San Francisco State University                  Biology (Botany) cum laude.                     B.S.                  1999

 

Appointments

2010 – Current            WGS Biologist, NCBI/NLM/NIH (via contractor)

2009 – 2010                Pre-award grant coordinator,. University of Maryland – College Park.

2006 – 2010                Research Associate. University of Maryland – College Park.

 

Publications

Delwiche, CF and RE Timme. 2011. Plants. Current Biology 21(11):R417-R422.

 

De Smet, I, U Voss, S Lau, M Wilson, N Shao, RE Timme, R Swarup, I Kerr, C Hodgman, R Bock, M Bennett, G Jurgens, and T Beeckman. 2011. Unraveling the Evolution of Auxin Signaling. Plant Physiology 155(1):209-21.

 

Finet, C, RE Timme, CF Delwiche and F MarlŽtaz. 2010. Multigene Phylogeny of the Green Lineage Reveals the Origin and Diversification of Land Plants. Current Biology 20:1-6.

 

Timme, RE and CF Delwiche. 2010. Uncovering the evolutionary origin of plant molecular processes: comparison of Coleochaete (Coleochaetales) and Spirogyra (Zygnematales) transcriptomes. BMC Plant Biology 10:96.

 

Handy, SM, TR Bachvaroff, RE Timme, DW Coats, S Kim, CF Delwiche. 2009. Phylogeny of four Dinophyciacean genera (Dinophyceae, Dinophysiales) based on rDNA sequences from single cells and environmental samples. Journal of Phycology 45(5): 1163-1174.

 

Timme, RE, BB Simpson, CR Linder. 2007. High Phylogenetic Resolution for Helianthus (Asteraceae) using the 18s-26s Ribosomal DNA External Transcribed Spacer.  American Journal of Botany 94(11): 1837-1852.

 

Timme, RE, J Kuehl, J Boore, R Jansen. 2007.  A comparative analysis of the Lactuca and Helianthus (ASTERACEAE) plastid genomes: identification of divergent regions and categorization of shared repeats. American Journal of Botany 94(3): 302-312.

 

W Xu, WJ Briggs, J Padolina, RE Timme, W Liu, CR Linder, DP Miranker.  2004. Using MoBIoSÕ scalable genome joins to find conserved Primer Pair Candidates between two genomes.  Bioinformatics 20:i355-i362.

 

Moret, BME, L Nakhleh, T Warnow, CR Linder, A Tholse, A Padolina, J Sun, R Timme. 2004.  Phylogenetic Networks: Modeling, Reconstructibility, and Accuracy, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (TCBB) 1(1):13-23.