Roy D. Welch . Assistant Professor rowelch@syr.edu Office: 236 Life Sciences Complex (LSC) Phone: 315-443-2159 Fax: 315-443-2012 Education: • Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1997 • Postdoc, Stanford University, 1998-2003 • Postdoc, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1997-1998 Courses: • Biology 409 General Microbiology • Biology 575 Genera Biochemistry I

INTERDISCIPLINARY PROGRAMS:

• Structural Biology/Biochemistry/Biophysics Program (SB3)

RESEARCH

Molecular aspects of signaling among a homogeneous population of bacteria

Welch Lab at Syracuse University: http://myxococcus.syr.edu/

Funding: National Research Service Award (NRSA) Fellowship GM20356-03: Traveling wave formation in Myxococcus xanthus

I study the genetics of self-organizing behavior in the prokaryote Myxococcus xanthus through the application of molecular biology, modeling, and whole-genome analysis.

Undergraduate students: link to http://myxococcus.syr.edu/ for information about research opportunities in my lab.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Arshinoff, BI, Suen, G, Just, EM, Merchant, SM, Kibbe, WA, Chisholm, RL and Welch RD. 2007. Xanthusbase: Adapting Wikipedia Principles to a Model Organism Database. Nucleic Acids Research 35(Database Issue): D422 - D426.

Suen, G, Jakobsen, JS, Goldman, BS, Singer, M, Garza, AG and Welch RD. 2006. Bacterial Post-Genomics: The Promise and Peril of Systems Biology. Journal of Bacteriology 188(23): 7999-8004.

Srinivasan BS, Caberoy NB, Suen G, Taylor RG, Shah R, Tengra F, Goldman BS, Garza AG, and Welch RD. 2005. Functional Genome Annotation through Phylogenomic Mapping. Nature Biotechnology. 23(6): 691-698.

Igoshin OA, Welch RD , Kaiser D, and Oster G. 2004. Waves and aggregation patterns in myxobacteria. PNAS. 101: 4256-4261.

Jakobsen JS, Jelsbak L, Welch RD, Cummings C, Goldman BS, Stark E, Slater SC, & Kaiser D. 2004. Enhancer binding proteins and Myxococcus xanthus fruiting body development. Journal of Bacteriology. 186(13): 4361-4368.

Kaiser D, and RD Welch RD. 2003. Dynamics of fruiting body morphogenesis. Journal of Bacteriology. 186(4): 919-927.

Caberoy NB, Welch RD , Jakobsen JS, Slater SC, and Garza,AG. 2003. A global mutational analysis of NtrC-like activators in Myxococcus xanthus : identifying activator mutants defective for motility and fruiting body development. Journal of Bacteriology. 185(20): 6083-609.