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Sigrid Jacobshagen, Ph.D. Free University of Berlin
Professor
Office: TCNW 111
Phone: 270-745-5994
Email: sigrid.jacobshagen@wku.edu
Website: http://bioweb.wku.edu/faculty/Jacobshagen/default.html
Courses
BIOL 400(G) Plant Physiology
BIOL/CHEM 446(G) Biochemistry I
BIOL/CHEM 446(G) on-line Biochemistry I
BIOL/CHEM 447(G) Biochemistry Laboratory
BIOL/CHEM 467(G) Biochemistry II
BIOL/CHEM 562 Advanced Biochemistry
Research
Research in my lab is concerned with the circadian clock. We are using the unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas as a model organism to study the circadian clock, because we can measure its daily rhythm of swimming towards light in an automated fashion. The rhythm is very similar to the daily sleep/wake cycle in humans. Projects in the lab center on the photoreceptor proteins that are able to reset the circadian clock using physiological, molecular, biochemical and cell biological techniques. We are also interested in understanding how the circadian clock regulates genes so that they show a circadian rhythm in their expression. A third interest is the use of mathematical equations to model the circadian clock.
Bio
Ph.D. 1988 Plant Biochemistry, Free University of Berlin, Germany
M.S. 1985 Biology, Justus-Liebig-University of Giessen, Germany
Recent Publications
Gaskill C., Forbes-Stovall J., Young M., Kessler B., Rinehart C.A., and Jacobshagen S. (2010) Improved automated monitoring and new analysis algorithm for circadian phototaxis rhythms in Chlamydomonas. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry 48, 239-246.
Jacobshagen S., Kessler B., and Rinehart C.A. (2008) At least four distinct circadian regulatory mechanisms are required for all phases of rhythms in mRNA amount. Journal of Biological Rhythms 23, 511-524.
