Heitman Lab Members

James Fraser, PhD Post-Doctoral Fellow 320 CARL Building Box 3546 DUMC Durham, N.C. 27710 Phone: 919.684.3036 Fax: 919.684.5458 Email: frase006@mc.duke.edu

I received my Ph.D. in 2002 from the University of Melbourne, where I worked in the laboratory of Professor Michael Hynes on the effects of nitrogen and carbon availability on Aspergillus nidulans gene regulation. Since coming to the Heitman lab, I have been studying fertility of Cryptococcus neoformans variety gattii, a primary pathogenic variety of this medically important basidiomycete. These results have fueled our interest in the mechanisms driving the evolution of the unusually large mating-type locus of C. neoformans, which we are studying as a model for primitive sex chromosome evolution.