Faculty

Jeff Elhai
Associate Professor
Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony Brook (1981)
elhaij@vcu.edu
www.people.vcu.edu/~elhaij

CyanoNews

Office room: 335
Office phone: (804) 828-0794

Lab room: 334

Research interests:
Molecular biology of spatially patterned differentiation by cyanobacteria; genomic analysis, particularly of highly repetitive sequences; tools to make complex analysis of knowledge bases accessible to biologists

Recent publications:

Gantar M, Khudyakov I, Young KT, Elhai J (in revision). Inhibition of late heterocyst
differentiation in unicellular and fragmenting mutants of the filamentous cyanobacterium Anabaena PCC 7120. Submitted to Journal of Bacteriology.

John C Meeks and Jeff Elhai (2002). Regulation of cellular differentiation in filamentous cyanobacteria in free-living and plant-associated symbiotic growth states. Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews 66:94-121

Wolk CP, Elhai J, Kuritz T, Holland D (1993). Amplified expression of a transcriptional pattern formed during development of Anabaena. Mol Microbiol 7:441-445.

Classes currently teaching:
Introduction to Bioinformatics (BIOL 351)
Integrated Bioinformatics (BNFO 601)

Dr. Jeff Elhai received his Ph.D. in 1981 from the State University of New York – Stony Brook. He is currently involved in many research projects that involve the mechanism of heterocyst spacing in cyanobacteria, the relationship between cyanobacteria and wheat, hormonal signal transduction in plants, identification of origins of DNA replication by sequence and biological function, etc.