Publications
Preprints/In review
Ehrlich M.A., Drown, M.K., DeLiberto, A.N., Crawford, D.L., and Oleksiak, M.F. Relentless Selection: The importance of within-generation selection in heterogeneous habitats. In review 2023.
Publications
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*undergraduate co-authors
Drown M.K., Oleksiak M.F., and Crawford, D.L. (2023). Trans-acting genotypes drive mRNA expression affecting metabolic and thermal tolerance traits. Genome Biology and Evolution.
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Flack N., Drown M.K., Walls C., Pratte J., McLain A., Faulk C. (2023). Chromosome-level, nanopore-only genome and allele-specific DNA methylation of Pallas’s cat, Otocolobus manul. Nucleic Acids Research: Bioinformatics.
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DeLiberto A.N., Drown M.K., Ehrlich M.A., Oleksiak M.F., and Crawford D.L. (2022). Feeling the heat: Variation in thermal sensitivity within and among populations. Journal of Experimental Biology.
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Drown, M.K.+, DeLiberto, A.N.+, Flack, N., Doyle, M.*, Westover, A.G.*, Proefrock, J.C.*, Heilshorn, S.*, D’Alessandro, E., Crawford, D.L., Faulk, C. and Oleksiak, M.F. (2022). Sequencing bait: Nuclear and mitogenome assembly of an abundant coastal tropical and subtropical fish, Atherinomorus stipes. Genome Biology and Evolution.
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Drown, M.K., Crawford D.L., & Oleksiak, M.F. (2022). Transcriptomic analysis provides insights into molecular mechanisms of thermal physiology. BMC genomics.
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Chambers, R. C., Habeck, E., Boyce, D., Drown, M. K., Brewster, S., & Zyck, A. (2021). Scope of response of Atlantic silverside (Menidia menidia) to a broad range of constant and variable CO2 regimes. Internal Report.
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Chambers, R. C., Habeck, E., Boyce, D., Drown, M. K., Wieczorek, D., & Poach, M. (2021). A new apparatus for revealing the biological scope-of-response of small marine organisms to multiple CO2 regimes. Internal Report.
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Drown, M.K., DeLiberto, A.N., Ehrlich, M.A., Crawford, D.L., & Oleksiak, M.F. (2021). Interindividual variation in metabolic and thermal tolerance traits from populations subjected to recent anthropogenic heating. Royal Society Open Science.
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Traylor-Knowles, N., Connelly, M.T., Young, B.D., Eaton, K., Muller, E.M., Paul, V.J., Ushijima, B., DeMerlis, A., Drown, M.K., Goncalves, A. and Kron, N. (2021). Gene Expression Response to Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease Transmission in M. cavernosa and O. faveolata From Florida. Frontiers in Marine Science. (Press release below)
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Drown, M.K., DeLiberto, A.N., Crawford, D.L., & Oleksiak, M.F. (2020). An innovative setup for high-throughput respirometry of small aquatic animals. Frontiers in Marine Science: Aquatic Physiology.
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Colwell, M., Wanner, N.M., Drown, C., Drown, M.K., Dolinoy, D.C., & Faulk, C. (2020). Paradoxical whole genome DNA methylation dynamics of 5’aza-deoxycytidine in chronic low-dose exposure in mice. Epigenetics.
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Colwell, M., Drown, M.K., Showel, K., Drown, C., Palowski, A., & Faulk, C. (2018). Evolutionary conservation of DNA methylation in CpG sites within ultraconserved noncoding elements. Epigenetics, 13(1), 49-60.
Popular Press
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March 2022 Decoding Life: Tara Baris: Starting a Career in Data Science. Blog post.
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August 2021 American Society for Cell Biology LGBTQ+ committee blog post: Mentoring LGBTQ+ students in STEM. Invited perspective.
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August 2021 Genes to Genomes Blog Early Career Spotlight. Autobiographical feature.
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July 2021 News at the U: Study finds gene role in immune response of Florida corals to rapidly spreading disease. Co-author on featured publication.
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April 2021 Life Her Way Podcast: Women in STEM. Featured interview.
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April 2018 Our Changing Ocean: The Chemistry, the Questions, and the Students Answering Them. In Chemistry. Featured interview.

Contact
Email: drown017@umn.edu
Twitter: @melissakd6