Research Associate

Jeanette Sutherland completed her Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at New York Medical College. She studied the repair mechanism of stabilized bacterial topoisomerase I cleavage complexes as part of an overall strategy to develop antibacterial drugs targeting topoisomerase I. 

She joined the Holloman lab in July of 2011 and is currently working on how homologous recombination functions in DNA repair to maintain genomic stability.

Publications:

Kojic, M, Sutherland JH, Pérez-Martín J, and Holloman WK. (2013). Initiation of meiotic recombination in Ustilago maydis. Genetics. 195(4):1231-40.

Liu IF, Sutherland JH, Cheng B, and Tse-Dinh, YC. (2011). Topoisomerase I function during E. coli response to antibiotics and stress enhances cell killing from stabilization of its cleavage complex. J. Antimicrob. Chem. 66(7):1518-24.

Sutherland JH and Tse-Dinh YC. (2010). Analysis of RuvABC and RecG involvement in E. coli response to covalent topoisomerase-DNA complex. J Bacteriol. 192(17):4445-4451.