Profile
Developmental and molecular biology of nematodes, Ascaris suum, Caenorhabditis elegans, and Ascaris lumbricoides.
Academic Information
Professor Emerita
Areas of Expertise
Molecular Genetics
Education & Training
Post-Graduate School
1983, PhD, State University of New York at Buffalo
Awards & Honors
2024: Member, Society for Developmental Biology Academy
Publications
- Unguez GA, Bennett KL, Domingo C, Chow I.
Increasing Diversity in Developmental Biology.
Front Sociol. 2022 Feb 2;6:762836. doi: 10.3389/fsoc.2021.762836. PMID: 35198624; PMCID: PMC8859855. - Chen, W, Hu, Y, Lang, CF, Brown, JS, Schwabach, S, Song, X, Zhang, Y, Munro, E, Bennett, K, Zhang, D and HC Lee. 2020.
The Dynamics of P Granule Liquid Droplets Are Regulated by the Caenorhabditis elegans Germline RNA Helicase GLH-1 via Its ATP Hydrolysis Cycle.
GENETICS June 1, 2020 vol. 215 no. 2 421-434. https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.120.303052 - McEwen, TJ, Yao, Q, Yun, S and KL Bennett. 2016.
Small RNA in situ hybridization in Caenorhabditis elegans, combined with RNA-seq, identifies germline-enriched microRNAs.
Dev Bio 2016 Oct 15, 418(2):248-257. PMID: 27521456, PMCID: PMC5131644 DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2016.08.003 - Gao, G, Deeb, F, Mercurio, JM, Parfenova, A, Smith, PA and KL Bennett. 2012.
PAN-1, a P-granule component important for C. elegansfertility, has dual roles in the germline and soma.
Develomental Biology 364:202-213. - Beshore, Erica L., Tamara J. McEwen, Molly C. Jud, Jordan K. Marshall, Jennifer A. Schisa and Karen L. Bennett. 2011.
C. elegans Dicer interacts with the P-granule component GLH-1 and both regulate germline RNPs.
Developmental Biology 350:370-381. - van der Voet, Monique, Lorson, Monique A., Srinivasan, Dayalan G., Bennett, Karen L. and Sander van den Heuvel. 2009.
C. elegans mitotic cyclins have distinct as well as overlapping functions in chromosome segregation.
Cell Cycle 8(24):4091-102. - Spike, Caroline, Nicole Meyer, Erica Racen, April Orsborn, Jay Kirchner, Kathleen Kuznicki, Christopher Yee, Karen Bennett and Susan Strome. 2008.
Genetic Analysis of the C. elegans GLH family of P-granule proteins.
Genetics 178(4):1973-1987. - Orsborn, A.M., W. Li, t. McEwen, T. Mizuno, E. Kuzmin, K. Matsumoto, and K.L. Bennett. 2007.
GLH-1, the C. elegans, P granule protein, is controlled by KGB-1 and by the COP9 subunit CSN-5.
Development 134:3383-3392. - Li, W, B Gao, S-M Lee, K. Bennett, and D. Fang. 2007.
RLE-1, a novel E3 ubiquitin ligase, regulates C. elegans aging by catalyzing DAF-16 polyubiquitination.
Developmental Cell 12:235-246. - Gao, Ge, Sheela Raikar, Bianca Davenport, Lejla Mutapcic, Ruth Montgomery, Eugene Kuzmin and Karen L. Bennett. 2006.
Cross-species RNAi: Selected Ascaris suum dsRNAs can sterilize Caenorhabditis elegans.
Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology 146:124-128. - Momoyo Hanazawa, Ichiro Kawasaki, Hirofumi Kunitomo, Keiko Gengyo-Ando, Karen L. Bennett, Shohei Mitani, Yuichi Iino. 2004.
The Caenorhabditis elegans eukaryotic initiation facto 5A homologue, IFF-1, is required for germ cell proliferation, gametogenesis and localization of the P-granule component PGL-1.
Mechanisms of Development 121: 213-224. - Smith, Pliny, W-M Leung-Chiu, Ruth Montgomery, April Orsborn, Kathleen Kuznicki, Emily Gressman-Coberly, Lejla Mutapcic, and Karen Bennett. 2002.
The GLH Proteins, Caenorhabditis elegans P Granule components, Associate with CSN-5 and KGB-1, Proteins Necessary for Fertility, and with ZYX-1, a Predicted Cytoskeletal Protein.
Developmental Biology. 251:333-347. Chosen by the Faculty of 1000 as a 2002 paper. - Kuznicki KA, Smith PA, Leung-Chiu WMA, Estevez AO, Scott HC, Bennett, KL. 2000.
Combinatorial RNA interference indicates GLH-4 can compensate for GLH-1; these two P granule components are critical for fertility in C. elegans.
Development. 127:2907-2916.
A full list of publications can be found on PubMed.