Faculty and Research
John Belote
Professor
jbelote@syr.edu
Office: LSC 356
Phone: 315-443-3695; Lab: 315-443-7292
Education
B.A.,
Murray State University (1973)
Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill (1979)
Postdoctoral fellow, University of California, San Diego (1979-1985)
Research interests
Role of the ubiquitin/proteasome pathway in Drosophila development
Courses
Bio
326 Genetics & Cell Biology I
Bio
435 Genetics Laboratory
Bio
462/662 Molecular Genetics
Bio
419 Junior/Senior Thesis Seminar
Interdisciplinary Programs
Structural
Biology, Biochemistry, and Biophysics Program
Adjunct Research Professor,
Dept. Cell & Developmental Biology,
SUNY Upstate Medical University
Selected Publications
Manier, M. K., J. M. Belote, K. S. Berben, D. Novikov, W. T. Stuart
and S. S. Pitnick (2010) Resolving mechanisms of competitive fertilization
success in Drosophila melanogaster. Science 328: 354-357.
Belote, J.M. and L. Zhong (2009) Duplicated proteasome genes in
Drosophila and their roles in spermatogenesis. Heredity 103: 23-31.
Zhong, L. and J. M. Belote (2007) The testis-specific proteasome subunit
Prosa6 Tosophila melanogaster is required for individualization
and nuclear maturation during spermatogenesis. Development 134: 3517-3525.
Maxwell, P. H., J. M. Belote and R. W. Levis (2006) Identification
of multiple transcription initiation, polyadenylation, and splice sites
in the Drosophila melanogaster TART family of telomeric retrotransposons.
Nucleic Acids Res. 34: 5498-5507.
Neuburger, P. J., K. J. Saville, J. Zeng, K. A. Smyth and J. M. Belote
(2006) A genetic suppressor of two dominant temperature sensitive (DTS)
lethal proteasome mutants of Drosophila melanogaster is itself
a mutated proteasome subunit gene. Genetics 173: 1377-1387.
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