Michael Kohn's CV

EMPLOYMENT:
2011-present	Associate Professor	Rice University, BioSciences, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Houston, TX
2004-2011	Assistant Professor	Rice University, Dept of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Houston, TX
2001-2003	Research Associate	University of Chicago, Department of Ecology & Evolution, Chung-I Wu Laboratory, Chicago, IL

EDUCATION:
2000	Ph.D.	University of California at Los Angeles, Department of Organismic Biology, Ecology & Evolution, Robert K. Wayne laboratory
1994	M.Sc.	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Department of Biology, Svante Pääbo laboratory

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS:

Ying Song, Zhenjiang Lan, Michael H. Kohn. In press. Mitochondrial DNA phylogeography of the Norway rat. PLOS One
Stefan Endepols, Nicole Klemann; Ying Song, Michael H. Kohn vkorc1-Variation in House Mice during Warfarin and Difenacoum Field Trials; Pest management Science 2012 Feb 15. doi: 10.1002/ps.3306
Ying Song, Stefan Endepols, Nicole Klemann, Dania Richter, Franz- Rainer Matuschka, Ching-Hua Shih, Michael W. Nachman, and Michael H. Kohn. Adaptive introgression of anticoagulant rodent poison resistance by hybridization between Old World mice. Current Biology 21:1296-1301
Juan C Diaz, Ying Song, Anthony Moore*, Jeff N Borchert and Michael H Kohn. 2010. Analysis of vkorc1 polymorphisms in Norway rats using the roof rat as outgroup. BMC Genetics 11:43
Shuwei Li, Ching-Hua Shih and Michael H Kohn. 2010. Functional and evolutionary correlates of gene constellations in the Drosophila melanogaster genome that deviate from the stereotypical gene architecture. BMC Genomics 11:322
Julien Beuchat, Shuwei Li, Chikako Shindo, Michael H. Kohn, Christian S. Hardtke. (2010) A hyperactive QTL allele of Arabidopsis BRX contributes to natural variation in root growth vigor. PNAS 107: (18) 8475-8480.
Agnes Grandemange, Michael H. Kohn, Romain Lasseur, Christiane Longin-Sauvageon, Philippe Berny and Etienne Benoit. (2009) Consequences of the Y139F Vkorc1 mutation on resistance to AVKs - in vivo investigation in a 7th generation of congenic Y139F strain of rats. Pharmacogenetics and Genomics. 19 (10):742-750.
Laurie S. Stevison and Michael H. Kohn. (2009). Divergence population genetic analysis of hybridization between rhesus and cynomolgus macaques. Molecular Ecology 18 (11): 2457-2475.
Ying Song, Nicole Vera*, Michael H Kohn. (2008) Vitamin K epoxide reductase complex subunit 1 (Vkorc1) haplotype diversity in mouse priority strains. BMC Research Notes1:125
Michael H Kohn, Roger Price, Hans-Joachim Pelz. (2008) A cardiovascular phenotype in warfarin-resistant VKORC1 mutant rats. Artery Research 2:138-147.
Michael H. Kohn (2008) Rapid sequence divergence rates in the 5 prime regulatory regions of young Drosophila melanogaster duplicate gene pairs. Genetics and Molecular Biology 31: 575-584
Michael H. Kohn and Patricia J. Wittkopp (2007). Annotating ebony on the fly. Molecular Ecology 16: 2831-2833.
Michael H. Kohn, William J. Murphy, Elaine A. Ostrander & Robert K. Wayne (2006). Genomics and Conservation Genetics. Trends Ecology & Evolution 21: 629-637.
Michael H. Kohn, Shu Fang & Chung-I Wu (2004) Inference of positive and negative selection on the 5' regulatory regions of Drosophila genes. Molecular Biology & Evolution 21: 374-383.
Michael H. Kohn, Hans-Joachim Pelz, & Robert K. Wayne (2000) Natural selection mapping of the warfarin resistance gene. The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 97: 7911-7915.
Michael H. Kohn, Eric York, Denise Kamradt, Gary Haughts, Ray Sauvajot & Robert K. Wayne (1999) Estimating population size by genotyping feces. The Proceedings of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences 266: 657-665.
Elizabeth A. Hadly, Michael H. Kohn, Jennifer A. Leonard & Robert K. Wayne (1998) A genetic record of population isolation in pocket gophers during Holocene climatic change. The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 95: 6893-689.
Michael H. Kohn & Robert K. Wayne (1997) Facts from feces revisited. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 6: 223-227.
Michael Kohn, Felix Knauer, Alberto Stoffella, Wolfgang Schröder & Svante Pääbo (1995) Conservation genetics of the European brown bear - a study using excremental PCR of nuclear and mitochondrial sequences. Molecular Ecology 4: 95-103.