Andrew Diener
email: diener@mcdb.ucla.edu
phone: 310-267-4832
office: 4227 Life Science Building
lab: 4226
homepage: http://sites.google.com/site/dienerlaboratory/
Education
B.S., Biochemistry, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 1990
Ph. D., Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2000
Research Interests
Selected Publications
Mylonakis, Eleftherios, Moreno, Roberto, El Khoury, Joseph B., Idnurm, Alexander, Heitman, Joseph, Calderwood, Stephen B., Ausubel, Frederick M. and Diener, Andrew. 2005. Galleria mellonella as a model system to study Cryptococcus neoformans phthogenesis Infection and Immunity 73: 3842- .
Diener, Andrew C. and Ausubel, Frederick M.. 2005. RESISTANCE TO FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM 1, a dominant Arabidopsis disease resistance gene, is not race specific Genetics 171: 305- .
Diener, Andrew C., Gaxiola, Roberto A. and Fink, Gerald R.. 2001. Arabidopsis ALF5, a multidrug efflux transporter gene family member, confers resistance to toxins The Plant Cell 13: 1625- .
Diener, Andrew and Hirschi, Kendal. 2000. Heterologus expression for dominant-like gene activity Trends in Plant Science 5: 10- .
Diener, Andrew C., Li, Haoxia, Zhou, Wen-xu, Whoriskey, Wendy J., Nes, W. David and Fink, Gerald, R.. 2000. STEROL METHYLTRANSFERASE 1 controls the level of cholesterol in plants The Plant Cell 12: 853- .
Diener, Andrew C. and Fink, Gerald R.. 1996. DLH1 is a functional Candida albicans homologue of the meiosis-specific gene DMC1 Genetics 143: 769- .