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Mary Rumpho

Academic Title: Professor

Name: Mary Rumpho

 

Department: Department of Molecular and Cell Biology

Department Website: http://www.mcb.uconn.edu/

Institution: University of Connecticut

 

Address: 91 N. Eagleville Rd
U-3125
Storrs, Connecticut 06269

 

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Expertise: My research focuses on the unusual endosymbiotic association between algal (Vaucheria litorea) chloroplasts and a marine mollusc (Elysia chlorotica), resulting in photosynthetic sea slugs. My lab is conducting research to characterize the symbiont plastids and demonstrate horizontal gene transfer between the algal nucleus and the sea slug. In addition, we are exploring the possibility that the sea slug produces anti-cancer metabolites as an anti-predator defense mechanism

 

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