Benjamin Linger is an assistant professor of Chemistry in the School of Physical and Applied Sciences. He completed his Bachelor's of Science degree in Chemistry at Mount Vernon Nazarene University in 1999 and received his doctorate in Biochemistry from Purdue University in 2005. Following graduate school, he was a postdoctoral research associate in the Cancer and Cell Biology Department at the University of Cincinnati before starting at Indiana Wesleyan University in 2010.
INTERESTS
Professor Linger's primary research interest is the functional analysis of telomeres, protective complexes at the ends of linear chromosomes in eukaryotic organisms. His specific focus is functional characterization of the telomere proteins in the model organism Tetrahymena thermophila. He is also interested in the development of molecular tools to study protein function and gene expression in T. thermophila.
PHD
Biochemistry
Purdue University , 2005
BS
Chemistry
Mount Vernon Nazarene University , 1999
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Peer-reviewed journal articles:
- Linger, B. R. & Price, C. M. (2011). Tetrahymena Pot1a binding protein Pat1 mediates a conformational change that grants telomerase access to the telomere. In preparation.
- Linger, B. R., Morin, G. B., & Price, C. M. (2011). The Pot1a-associated proteins Tpt1 and Pat1 coordinate telomere protection and length regulation in Tetrahymena. Submitted.
- Linger, B. R. & Price, C. M. (2009). Conservation of telomere protein complexes: shuffling through evolution. Critical Reviews in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 44(6), 434–446.
- Warrier, R., Linger, B. R., Golden, B. L., & Kuhn, R. J. (2008). Role of Sindbis virus capsid protein Region II in nucleocapsid core assembly and encapsidation of genomic RNA. Journal of Virology, 82(9), 4461–4470.
- Jacob, N. K., Lescasse, R., Linger, B. R., & Price, C. M. (2007). Tetrahymena POT1a regulates telomere length and prevents activation of cell cycle checkpoint. Molecular Cell Biology, 27, 1592–1601.
- Linger, B. R., Kunovska, L., Kuhn, R. J., & Golden, B. L. (2004). Sindbis virus nucleocapsid assembly: RNA folding promotes capsid protein dimerization. RNA, 10, 128–138.
