About Dr. Wiley

Emily A. Wiley

Address:   The Keck Science Department

                     W.M. Keck Science Center

                     925 N. Mills Ave.

                     Claremont, CA  91711

                     (909) 607-9698


Email:         ewiley@ksd.claremont.edu

 
Education

1996    Ph.D., University of Washington, Molecular Genetics, Dept. of Pathology

1989    B.S. Biology (magna cum laude), Western Washington University

   

Academic Positions

2008-present   Associate Professor, Keck Science Department of Claremont McKenna, Pitzer, and Scripps Colleges

2002-2008       Assistant Professor, Keck Science Department of Claremont McKenna, Pitzer, and Scripps Colleges

2000-2002       Visiting Assistant Professor, Biology, Mount Holyoke College

1999-2000       Postdoctoral Fellow with Dr. Meng-Chao Yao, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Res. Cntr.

1996-1999       Postdoctoral Fellow with Dr. David Allis, University of Rochester  

1991-1996       Graduate Student with Dr. Virginia Zakian, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and Princeton University

1989-1991       Lab Technician I in the Div. of Infectious Disease, Children's Hospital, Seattle, WA   

Honors, Awards, Fellowships

2006-present  NSF CAREER Award

2009                American Publishers PROSE Award for book (co-editor): “Current Protocols Essential Laboratory Techniques"

                                 Wiley and Sons, Inc., New Jersey

2005, 2008     Pitzer Faculty Research Award

2003                Mellon Faculty Enhancement Award

1998                Fellowship Award, New College Teachers Workshop, SVHE

1997-2000      NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship Award


Publications

(*indicates student authors)

Slade, KM., *Freggiaro, S., *Cottrell, K.A., Smith, J.J., and Wiley, E.A. (2011) Sirtuin-mediated nuclear differentiation and programmed degradation in Tetrahymena. BMC Cell Biology 12(1):40-54.

Coyne, R.S., Thiagarajan, M., Jones, K.M., Wortman, J.R., Tallon, L.J., Haas, B.J., Cassidy-Hanley, D.M., Wiley, E.A., et al. (2008) Refined annotation and assembly of the Tetrahymena thermophila genome sequence through EST analysis, comparative genomic hybridization, and targeted gap closure. BMC Genomics 9: 562-579. 

Smith, J., *Torigoe, S., *Maxson, J., *Fish, L., and Wiley, E.A. (2008) A class II HDAC deacetylates newly-synthesized histones in Tetrahymena.  Eukaryotic Cell 7(3): 471-482.

Gallagher, S.R. and Wiley, E.A., Editors. (2008) Current Protocols: Essential Laboratory Techniques, Wiley and Sons, Inc., New Jersey.  (Winner, 2009 PROSE award for Excellence in Biological Education

 Wiley, E. A. and Chakravarti, D. (2008) “Measurement of pH” in Current Protocols: Essential Laboratory Techniques, Wiley and Sons, Inc., New Jersey.

*Parker, K., *Maxson, J., *Mooney, A., and Wiley, E.A. (2007) Class I histone deacetylase Thd1p promotes global chromatin condensation in Tetrahymena thermophila. Eukaryotic Cell 6: 1913-1924.

Wiley, E.A., *Myers, T., *Parker, K., *Braun, T., Yao, M.-C. (2005) The class I histone deacetylase Thd1p affects nuclear integrity in Tetrahymena thermophila. Eukaryotic Cell 4: 981-990.

Wiley, E.A., Ohba, R., Yao, M.-C., Allis, C.D. (2000) Developmentally regulated Rpd3p homolog specific to the transcriptionally active macronucleus of vegetative Tetrahymena thermophila.  Mol. Cell. Biol. 20(22):8319-8328.

Wiley, E.A., Mizzen, C., Allis, C.D. (2000) Isolation and characterization of in vivo modified histones and an activity gel assay for identification of histone acetyltransferases.  Methods in Cell Biology:  Tetrahymena thermophila.  Academic Press, San Diego, CA., Vol. 62:379 - 394.

Huang, H., Smothers, J.F., Wiley, E.A., Allis, C.D. (1999)  A nonessential HP1-like protein affects starvation-induced assembly of condensed chromatin and gene expression in macronuclei of Tetrahymena thermophila. Mol. Cell. Biol. 19(5):3624-3634.  

Huang, H., Wiley, E.A., Lending, C.R., Allis, C.D. (1998)  An HP1-like protein is missing from transcriptionally silent micronuclei of Tetrahymena. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 95: 13624-13629.

Wiley, E.A. and Zakian, V.A. (1995)  Extra telomeres, but not internal tracts of telomeric DNA, reduce transcriptional repression at Saccharomyces telomeres. Genetics 139:67-79.

Mendelman, P.M., Chaffin D.O., Kilov, L.R., Kalaitzoglou, G., Serfass, D.A., Onay, O., Wiley, E.A., Overturf, G.D., Rubin, L.G. (1990)  Cefuroxime treatment failure of nontypable Haemophilus influenzae meningitis associated with alteration of penicillin-binding proteins.  Journal of Infectious Disease 162:1118-1123.                                                                                           

Mendelman, P.M., Wiley E.A., Stull, T.L., Clausen, C., Chaffin, D.O., Onay, O. (1990)  Problems  with current recommendations for susceptibility testing of Haemophilus influenza.  Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy  34(8):1480 – 1484.

Mendelman, P.M., Henritzy, L.L., Chaffin, D.O., Lent, K., Smith, A.L., Stull, T.L., Wiley, E.A. (1989)  In vitro activities and targets of three cephem antibiotics against Haemophilus influenzae. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 33(11):1878 – 1882.