Dr. Tom Hammond
Professor
Office
SLB Science Labratory Building 250
Office Hours
by appointment
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- About
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Biography
Dr. Hammond studies fundamental processes of meiosis using fungi as model organisms.
Current Courses
BSC 204.002 Biological Investigations
BSC 219.001 Genetics
BSC 299.003 Independent Honor Study
BSC 499.003 Independent Research For The Master's Thesis
BSC 499.203 Independent Research For The Master's Thesis Last Term
BSC 287.040 Independent Study
BSC 290.040 Research In Biological Sciences
BSC 599.003 Research In The Biological Sciences
Teaching Interests & Areas
Genetics, Molecular Biology, Programming for Biologists
Research Interests & Areas
Genome defense processes, Selfish genetic elements, gene drivers
Post-Doc (Genetics)
University of Missouri-Columbia
Columbia, MO
PhD (Plant Pathology)
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI
MS (Biochemistry)
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Worcester, MA
BA (Biochemistry)
Connecticut College
New London, CT
Grants and Contracts
MRI: Acquisition of a laser scanning confocal microscope within a core facility for research and training at Illinois State University
Kevin Andrew Edwards, Wolfgang Stein, Tom Hammond, Alysia Vrailas Mortimer, John Sedbrook, Andres Vidal-Gadea, Marjorie Jones.
National Science Foundation. October 1 2018 - September 30 2022
Identifying and characterizing proteins that detect unpaired DNA during meiosis.
Tom Hammond.
NIH. March 1 2013 - February 29 2016
Journal Article
An introgressed gene causes meiotic drive in Neurospora sitophila
Jesper Svedberg, Aaron Vogan, Nick Rhoades, D Sarmarajeewa, D Jacobsen, M Lascoux, Tom Hammond, Hanna Johannesson.
PNAS, 118 (17), e2026605118, (2021)
RNA editing controls meiotic drive by a Neurospora Spore killer
Nicholas Rhoades, Tom Hammond.
BioRXiv, (2021)
Recombination-independent recognition of DNA homology for meiotic silencing in Neurospora crassa
Nicholas Rhoades, T S Nguyen, G Witz, G Cecere, Tom Hammond, A K Mazur, Eugene Gladyshev.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A, 118 (33), e2108664118, (2021), 10.1073/pnas.2108664118
A nonhomologous end-joining mutant for Neurospora sitophila research
Nicholas A. Rhoades, Elise K. Webber, Tom Hammond.
Fungal Genet. Rep. (New Prairie Press), 64 (1), Article 1, (2020), 10.1101/761130
An NCBP3-Domain Protein Mediates Meiotic Silencing by Unpaired DNA
Erin Boone, Hua Xiao, M Vierling, Logan Decker, Tom Hammond, Patrick Shiu.
G3 (Genetics Society of America), 10, 1919–1927, (2020), 10.1534/g3.120.401236
Identification of rfk-1, a Meiotic Driver Undergoing RNA Editing in Neurospora
Nicholas A. Rhoades, Austin M. Harvey, Dilini A. Samarajeewa, Jesper Svedberg, Aykhan Yusifov, Anna Abusharekh, Pennapa Manitchotpisit, Daren W. Brown, Kevin J. Sharp, David G. Rehard, Joshua Peters, Xavier Ostolaza-Maldonado, Jackson Stephenson, Patrick K. T. Shiu, Hanna Johannesson, Tom Hammond.
Genetics, 212 (1), 93--110, (2019), 10.1534/genetics.119.302122
Complex formation of RNA silencing proteins in the perinuclear region of Neurospora crassa
Logan Decker, Erin Boone, Hua Xiao, Benjamin Shanker, Shannon Boone, Shanika Kingston, Seung Lee, Tony Perdue, Patricia Pukkila, Tom Hammond, Patrick Shiu.
Genetics, 199, 1017-1021, (2015)
A Critical Component of Meiotic Drive in Neurospora Is Located Near a Chromosome Rearrangement
Austin Harvey, David Rehard, Katie Groskreutz, Danielle Kuntz, Kevin Sharp, Patrick Shiu, Tom Hammond.
Genetics, 197, 1165-1174, (2014)
Efficient Detection of Unpaired DNA Requires a Member of the Rad54-Like Family of Homologous Recombination Proteins
Dilini Samarajeewa, Pegan Sauls, Kevin Sharp, Zach Smith, Hua Xiao, Katie M Groskreutz, Tyler L Malone, Erin C Boone, Kevin Andrew Edwards, Patrick Shiu, Erik D Larson, Tom Hammond.
Genetics, 198, 895-904, (2014), 10.1534/genetics.114.168187
Identification of small RNAs associated with Meiotic Silencing by Unpaired DNA
Tom Hammond, W Spollen, L Decker, S Blake, G Springer, P KT Shiu.
Genetics, 194, 279-284, (2013)
Novel proteins required for meiotic silencing by unpaired DNA and siRNA generation in Neurospora crassa
Tom Hammond, H Xiao, E Boone, L Decker, S Lee, T Perdue, P Pukkila, P TK Shiu.
Genetics, 194, 91-100, (2013)
Fine-scale mapping in Neurospora crassa by using genome-wide knockout strains
Tom Hammond, D G Rehard, B C Harris, PK T Shiu.
Mycologia, 104 (1), 231-233, (2012)
Molecular dissection of Neurospora Spore killer meiotic drive elements
Tom Hammond, D G Rehard, H Xiao, PK T Shiu.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 109, 12093-12098, (2012)
Altered trichothecene biosynthesis in TRI6-silenced transformants of Fusarium culmorum influences the severity of crown and foot rot on durum wheat seedlings
B Scherm, M Orru, V Balmas, F Spanu, E Azara, G Delogu, Tom Hammond, N P Keller, Q Migheli.
Mol. Plant Pathol., 12, 759-771, (2011)
Fluorescent and bimolecular-fluorescent protein tagging of genes at their native loci in Neurospora crassa using specialized double-joint PCR plasmids
Tom Hammond, H Xiao, D G Rehard, PK T Shiu.
Fungal Genet. Biol., 48, 866-873, (2011)
Presentations
Recombination-independent recognition of DNA homology for Repeat-Induced Point mutation and meiotic silencing by unpaired DNA
N Rhoades, G Cecere, Tom Hammond, E Gladysehv.
Neurospora 2018, Pacific Grove, CA, October 19, 2018
Investigating the RNA molecules of meiotic silencing by unpaired DNA (MSUD)
Dilini Samarajeewa, Nicholas Rhoades, Hua Xiao, Kevin Andrew Edwards, Patrick Shiu, Tom Hammond.
28th Fungal Genetics Conference at Asilomar, Asilomar Conference Grounds, Pacific Grove, CA, March 17, 2015
Sequencing and molecular dissection of Sk-2 in Neurospora
Austin Harvey, Jesper Svedberg, David Rehard, Daren Brown, Richard Wilson, Patrick Shiu, Hanna Johannesson, Tom Hammond.
28th Fungal Genetics Conference at Asilomar, Asilomar Conference Grounds, Pacific Grove, CA, March 17, 2015
Investigating Spore Killer of Fusarium verticillioides
Jay Pyle, Tejas Patel, Morgan McCall, Robert Proctor, Daren Brown, Tom Hammond.
2014 North Central Division of the American Phytopathological Society, University of Wisconsin-Madison, June 12, 2014
Searching for a Spore killer: A meiotic drive element in Neurospora fungi
Austin Harvey, David Rehard, Kevin Sharp, Danielle Kuntz, Richard Wilson, Daren Brown, Patrick Shiu, Tom Hammond.
2014 North Central Division of the American Phytopathological Society, University of Wisconsin-Madison, June 12, 2014
Investigating a DNA homology search process in the Model Organism Neurospora crassa
Pegan Sauls, Zach Smith, Kevin Sharp, Erik D Larson, Tom Hammond.
16th Annual DNA Repair Symposium, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, May 18, 2014
SAD-6: an SNF2-family protein involved in meiotic silencing by unpaired DNA
Dilini Samarajeewa, Nicholas Rhoades, Hua Xiao, Patrick Shiu, Kevin Andrew Edwards, Tom Hammond.
16th Annual DNA Repair Symposium, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, May 18, 2014
Efficient detection of unpaired DNA during meiosis requires a component of the homologous recombination machinery
Pegan A Sauls, Dilini Samarajeewa, Jay Pyle, Kevin Sharp, Zach Smith, Morgan McCall, Hua Xiao, Patrick Shiu, Kevin Andrew Edwards, Erik D Larson, Tom Hammond.
Neurospora conference 2014, Asilomar Conference Grounds, Pacific Grove, CA, March 7, 2014
Efficient detection of unpaired DNA during meiosis requires a component of the homologous recombination machinery
Tom Hammond.
Neurospora conference 2014, Asilomar Conference Grounds, Pacific Grove, CA, March 7, 2014