Address: Department of Biochemistry

Dartmouth Medical School

Hanover, New Hampshire 03755

Phone: 1-603-650 1120

Fax: 1-603-650 1128

Email: Michael.A.Collett@dartmouth.edu

Date of Birth: 18 March 1968

Citizenship: New Zealand

1987-1990 Bachelor of Science (2nd Class Honors, Division I) in Microbiology,

University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

1990-1991 Summer Research Student, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research,

Crop Research Division, Lincoln, New Zealand

1991-1994 Ph.D. in Molecular Genetics, Department of Microbiology and Genetics,

Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand

1995-1996 Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Microbiology and Genetics,

Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand

1996-present Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Department of Biochemistry,

Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH 03755, USA

1991 & 1992 Lab Demonstrator for first year Cell Biology course, Department of Microbiology and Genetics, Massey University.

1993 Lab Supervisor for first year Cell Biology course, Department of Microbiology and Genetics, Massey University.

1994 Lab Demonstrator for second year Eukaryotic Genetics Course, Department of Microbiology and Genetics, Massey University.

Examiner for extramural first year Cell Biology course, Department of Microbiology and Genetics, Massey University.

I also have experience teaching and supervising B.Sc. (hons.), M.Sc. and Ph.D. students and technicians at Massey and teaching and supervising Ph.D. students at Dartmouth.

Schardl, C. L., Leuchtmann, A., Tsai, H.-F., Collett, M. A., Watt, D. M. and Scott, D. B. (1994) Origin of a fungal symbiont of perennial ryegrass by interspecific hybridization of a mutualist with the ryegrass choke pathogen, Epichloë typhina. Genetics 136: 1307-1317.

Scott, B., Itoh, Y., Johnson, R., Collett, M. and Young, C. (1994) Genetic dissection of the paxilline and lolitrem indole diterpenoid biosynthetic pathway in Acremonium endophytes and Penicillium spp. In: Host-Specific Toxin: Biosynthesis, Receptor and Molecular Biology, eds. Kohmoto, K. & Yoder, O. C. (Sogo, Tottori, Japan), pp. 207-215.

Collett, M. A. (1994) Cloning, characterisation and evolutionary relationships of two pyr4 genes from an Acremonium endophyte of perennial ryegrass. Ph.D. Thesis, Massey University.

Collett, M. A., Bradshaw, R. E. and Scott, D. B. (1995) A mutualistic fungal symbiont of perennial ryegrass contains two different pyr4 genes, both expressing orotidine-5'-monophosphate decarboxylase. Gene 158: 31-39.

Dunlap, J. C., Loros, J. J., Crosthwaite, S., Liu, Y., Garceau, N. Y., Bell-Pedersen, D., Shinohara, M., Luo, C., Collett, M., Cole, A. and Heintzen, C. (1998) The circadian regulatory system in Neurospora. In: Light and Time in Microbial Systems, ed. Roberts, D. (Cambridge Univ. Press).

Loros, J. J., Dunlap, J. C., Crosthwaite, S., Bell-Pedersen, D., Garceau, N., Shinohara, M., Cho, H., Luo, C., Liu, Y., Collett, M., Cole, A., Heintzen, C., and Merrow, M. (1998) Light, light responsive genes, and the mechanism of the circadian clock in Neurospora. In: Landmarks in Photobiology from Proceedings of the 12th International Congress on Photobiology :129-133 (1996)

Collett, M. A., Zhang, L., Cole, A. B., Dunlap, J. C., and Loros, J. J. (manuscript in preparation) Light and clock driven expression of the Neurospora clock gene frequency is differentially regulated by, but dependent on, WHITE COLLAR-2

Collett, M. A., Dunlap, J. C. and Loros, J. J. (manuscript in preparation) WHITE COLLAR-2 regulates expression of frequency, period length and temperature compensation of the Neurospora clock.

A partially functional allele of white collar-2 confers altered period length, phase and temperature compensation of the Neurospora circadian clock. Sixth Meeting, Society for Research on Biological Rhythms, May 1998, Jacksonville, FL, USA.

Analysis of white collar-2 mutants reveals a central component of the Neurospora circadian clock and distinct mechanisms regulating frequency in light and dark. Twentieth Fungal Genetics Conference, March, 1999, Pacific Grove, CA, USA.

Department of Industrial and Scientific Research/ AgResearch Grasslands New Zealand, Ph.D. Fellowship in Plant Pathology, 1991-1994

Student Poster Prize, 1994 Queenstown Molecular Biology Meeting

Professor Jay Dunlap Phone: 1-603-650 1108

Department of Biochemistry Fax: 1-603-650 1128

Dartmouth Medical School Email: jay.c.dunlap@dartmouth.edu

Hanover, NH 03755

USA

Professor Jennifer Loros Phone: 1-603-650 1154

Department of Biochemistry Fax: 1-603-650 1128

Dartmouth Medical School Email: jennifer.loros@dartmouth.edu

Hanover, NH 03755

USA

Professor Barry Scott Phone: 64-6-350 4033

Professor of Molecular Genetics Fax: 64-6-350 5637

Institute of Molecular BioSciences Email: d.b.scott@massey.ac.nz

Massey University http: www.massey.ac.nz

Private Bag 11-222, Palmerston North

New Zealand