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NAME
R. Scott Hawley / POSITION TITLE
Investigator
EDUCATION/TRAINING
INSTITUTION AND LOCATION / DEGREE / YEAR(s) / FIELD OF STUDY
University of California at Riverside / B.S. / 1975 / Biology
University of Washington, Seattle / Ph.D. / 1979 / Genetics
A. Positions and Honors.
Professional Experience
1975-1979 Graduate Student, University of Washington, Seattle. Sponsor: Dr. L.M. Sandler
1979-1982 Helen Hay Whitney Post-doctoral Fellow, Inst. for Cancer Research, Philadelphia, PA
1982-1991 Assist./Assoc. Prof., Dept. of Genetics and Mol. Biol., Albert Einstein Coll. of Med, NY
1991-2001 Professor, Section of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California at Davis
2001-present Investigator, Stowers Institute of Medical Research, Kansas City, MO
2006-present Professor of Molecular Biosciences with Tenure, University of Kansas
2006-present Professor of Physiology with Tenure, University of Kansas Medical Center
2006-present Adjunct Professor of Biology, University of Missouri at Kansas City
Honors and Awards
Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Fellowship (1979-1982)
Searle Scholarship (1984-1987)
American Cancer Society Faculty Research Awards (1984-1993)
Chair, Gordon Research Conference on Meiosis (1994)
Editorial Board of Genetics, PLoS, and PloS Genetics (current)
Board of Directors of the Genetics Society of America (1996-1999)
Fellow of the AAAS (elected 2001)
Co-chair, Cold Spring Harbor Advanced Drosophila Genetics Course (1994-2004)
American Cancer Society Research Professor (2005-2010)
Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2006)
Appointed to the Biological Sciences Advisory Committee of the National Science Foundation (2007-2009)
B. Selected peer-reviewed publications (94 Total)
Hawley, R. S. 1980. Chromosomal sites necessary for normal levels of meiotic recombination in Drosophila melanogaster. 1. Evidence for and mapping of the sites. Genetics 94:625-646.
Zhang, P., B. Knowles, L. S. B. Goldstein, and R. S. Hawley. 1990. A kinesin-like protein required for distributive chromosome segregation in Drosophila. Cell 62:1053-1062.
Theurkauf, W. E. and R. S. Hawley. 1992. Meiotic spindle assembly in Drosophila females: behavior of nonexchange chromosomes and the effects of mutations in the nod kinesin-like protein. J. Cell Biol. 116: 1167-1180.
Hawley, R.S. H. Irick, A.E. Zitron, D.A. Haddox, A. Lohe, C. New, M. Whitley, T. Arbel, J. Jang, K. McKim, and G.C. Childs. 1993. There are two mechanisms of achiasmate segregation in Drosophila females, one of which requires heterochromatic homology. Developmental Genetics 13: 440-467.
McKim, K., J.K. Jang, W. Theurkauf, and R.S. Hawley. 1993. Mechanical basis of meiotic metaphase arrest. Nature 362: 364-366.
Afshar, K., N. Barton, R.S. Hawley and L.S.B. Goldstein 1994. DNA binding and meiotic chromosomal localization of the Drosophila NOD kinesin-like protein Cell 81:129-138.
Jang, J. K., L. Messina, T.A. Arbel, and R.S. Hawley. 1995. Induction of metaphase arrest in Drosophila oocytes by chiasma-based kinetochore tension. Science 268: 1917-1919.
McKim, K.S. and R.S. Hawley 1995. Chromosomal Control of Meiotic Cell Division. Science 270:1595-1601.
Dernburg, A.F., Sedat, J.W. and R.S. Hawley. 1996. Direct evidence of a role for heterochromatin in meiotic chromosome segregation. Cell 86:135-146.
Koehler, K.E., C.L. Boulton, H.E. Collins, R.L. French, K.C. Herman, L.D. Lacefield, S.M. Madden, C.D. Scheutz, and R.S. Hawley. 1996. Spontaneous X chromosome nondisjunction events occurring at MI and MII have different recombinational histories. Nature Genetics 14:406-414.
McKim, K.S., J.J. Sekelsky, G. Chin, C. Steinberg, R. Khodosh, and R.S. Hawley. 1998. Meiotic synapsis in the absence of recombination. Science 279:876-878.
Matthies, H.J.G., Baskin, R.J., and R.S. Hawley. 2001. The orphan kinesin NOD lacks motile properties but does possess a microtubule stimulated ATPase activity. Molecular Biology of the Cell 12(12): 4000-4012.
Page, S.L. and R.S. Hawley. 2001. c(3)G encodes a Drosophila synaptonemal complex protein. Genes & Development 15:3130-3143.
Kramer, J.J. and R.S. Hawley. 2003. Mutants in the spindle-associated transmembrane protein Axs impair meiotic spindle assembly in Drosophila oocytes. Nature Cell Biology 5:261-263.
Harris, D., Orme, C., Kramer, J.J., Namba, R. Champion, M.D., Palladino, M.J., Natzle, J.E., and., and R.S.
Hawley. 2003. A deficiency screen of the major autosomes identifies a single gene(matrimony) that is haplo-insufficient for achiasmate segregation in Drosophila oocytes. Genetics165: 637-652.
Page, S.L. and R.S. Hawley 2004. The genetics and molecular biology of the synaptonemal complex. Ann. Rev. Cell Dev. Biology, Vol. 20: 525-558
Page, S.L. and R.S. Hawley. 2003. Chromosome Choreography - the Meiotic Ballet. Science 301(5634):785-789)
Gilliland, W.D., Wayson, S.M., and R.S. Hawley 2005. The meiotic defects of mutants in the Drosophila mps1 gene reveal a critical role of Mps1 in the segregation of achiasmate homologs. Current Biology 15(7): 672-677.
Anderson, L. K., Royer, S., Page, S.L., McKim, K., Lai, A., Lilly, M.Y, and R. S. Hawley. 2005. Juxtaposition of C(2)M and the Transverse Filament Protein C(3)G within the Central Region of Drosophila Synaptonemal Complex. PNAS 102(12): 4482-4487.
Page, S. L. and R. S. Hawley. 2005. The Drosophila meiotic mutant mei-352 is an allele of klp3A and reveals a role for a kinesin-like protein in crossover distribution. Genetics 170: 1797-1807.
Cui, W., Sproul, L.R., Gustafson, S.M., Matthies, H.J., Gilbert, S.P., and R.S. Hawley 2005. Drosophila nod protein binds preferentially to the ends of microtubules and promotes microtubule polymerization in vitro. Molecular Biology of the Cell 16(11):5400-5409.
Cui, W. and R.S. Hawley 2005. The HhH(2)/NDD domain of the Drosophila Nod chromokinesins-like protein is required for binding to chromosomes in the oocyte nucleus.. Genetics 171(4):1823-1835
Gong, W., McKim, K.S., and R.S. Hawley 2005. All paired up with no place to go: pairing, synapsis, and DSB formation in a balancer heterozygote. PLOS-Genetics 1(5):589-602.
Gilliland, W.D. and R.S. Hawley 2005. Cohesin and the maternal age effect. Cell 123(3):371-3.
Xiang, Y. and R.S. Hawley 2006. Centromere co-orientation and the mechanism of secondary nondisjunction in Drosophila females. Genetics 174: 67-68.
Hawley, R.S. and W.D. Gilliland 2006 Sometimes the result is not the answer: the truths and the lies that come from using the complementation test. Genetics 174: 5-15.
BOOKS
The Human Genome: A User’s Guide. 1998. by R. Scott Hawley and Catherine Mori. Academic Press.
Drosophila Protocols. 1999. by William S. Sullivan, Michael Ashburner, and R. Scott Hawley, eds. Cold Spring Harbor Press, New York.
Advanced Genetic Analysis: Finding Meaning in the Genome. 2002. by R. Scott Hawley and Michelle Walker.
Blackwell Science.
The Human Genome: A User’s Guide. 2nd Edition. 2004. by Julia Richards and R. Scott Hawley. Academic Press.
Drosophila: A Laboratory Handbook, 2nd Edition. 2004 by Michael Ashburner, R. Scott Hawley, and Kent Golic. Cold Spring Harbor Press.