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Moon Draper
Lecturer, Ph.D.

Email: maturin@mail.utexas.edu
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Main Office: NMS 4.306
Phone: 471-3912
Alt. Phone: 471-1629

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The University of Texas at Austin
School of Biological Sciences
1 University Station, A6500
Austin ,Texas 78712
Moon Draper

Research Summary

My interest is the genetic control of the suite of ion channels that populate a neuron. To this end, we are mapping the promoter elements that control the transcription of potassium channels in several species of Drosophila. This research has led to the separation of phenotypic behavior specific to transcription from a particular promoter. We are currently pursuing the study of transcriptional control of five different channel genes across a menagerie of 8 Drosophilid species. Distinct elements that direct the expression of genes in either the CNS or PNS have been identified. A combination of bioinformatics, sequence analysis, and transgenic lines may tease out discrete elements that regulate the electro-physiological state of a neuron.