Dr. Michael Bartlett
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REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

Bartlett, MS, M Thomm, and EP Geiduschek (2000). "The orientation of DNA in an archaeal transcription initiation complex." Nat. Struct. Biol. 7: 782-85.

Bartlett, MS, T Gaal, W Ross, and RL Gourse (2000). “Regulation of rRNA transcription is remarkably robust: FIS compensates for altered nucleoside triphosphate sensing by mutant RNA polymerases at Escherichia coli rrn P1 promoters.” J. Bacteriol. 182: 1969-77.

Bartlett, MS, T Gaal, W Ross, and RL Gourse (1998). “RNA polymerase mutants that destabilize RNA polymerase-promoter complexes alter NTP-sensing by rrn P1 promoters.” J. Mol. Biol., 279: 331-345.

Gaal, T, MS Bartlett, W Ross, CL Turnbough, Jr., and RL Gourse (1997). “Transcription regulation by initiating NTP concentration: rRNA synthesis in bacteria.” Science 278: 2092-97.

Bartlett, MS and RL Gourse (1994). “Growth rate-dependent control of the rrnB P1 core promoter in Escherichia coli.” J. Bacteriol. 176: 5560-64.

REVIEW ARTICLES

Geiduschek, EP and MS Bartlett (2000). “Engines of gene expression.” Nat. Struct. Biol. 7: 437-39.

Gourse, RL, T Gaal, MS Bartlett, JA Appleman, and W Ross (1996). “rRNA transcription and growth rate-dependent regulation of ribosome synthesis in Escherichia coli.” Annu. Rev. Microbiol. 50: 645-77.

MANUSCRIPT IN PREPARATION

Bartlett, MS, M Thomm, and EP Geiduschek. "Topography of the archaeal transcription initiation complex."

PRESENTATIONS AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS

Bartlett, M. "Topography of the archaeal transcription initiation complex." August 2003. Meeting on Molecular Genetics of Bacteria and Phages, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Bartlett, M. "Transcription factor positioning in an archaeal transcription initiation complex". December 2002. West Coast Bacterial Physiologists Meeting, Asilomar, California.

Bartlett, M. “Location of transcription factors TBP and TFB in an archaeal transcription complex.” June 2002. Gordon Conference on Nucleic Acids, Bristol, Rhode Island.

Bartlett, M. "Topography of the archaeal transcription initiation complex probed by DNA site-specific photochemical cross-linking" FASEB conference on prokaryotic transcription initiation, July 2001. Vermont Academy, Saxton's River, Vermont.

Bartlett, MS, M Thomm, and EP Geiduschek. "Topography of a transcription initiation complex from the archaean Pyrococcus furiosus." 1999. West Coast Bacterial Physiologists Meeting, Asilomar, California.

Bartlett, MS, T Gaal, W Ross, and RL Gourse. “Variation in initiating NTP concentration and instability of RNA polymerase-promoter complexes provide a mechanism for growth rate-dependent control of rrn P1 transcription.” 1997. Meeting on Molecular Genetics of Bacteria and Phages, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Bartlett, MS, CA Josaitis, T Gaal, and RL Gourse. “Evidence that growth rate dependent control and stringent control of rRNA transcription in Escherichia coli work by different mechanisms.” 1994. Meeting on Ribosome Synthesis and Nucleolar Function, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY.

Bartlett, MS, CA Josaitis, and RL Gourse. “Stringent control and growth rate dependent control of rRNA transcription in E. coli are distinct regulatory systems.” 1993. Meeting on Molecular Genetics of Bacteria and Phages, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY.

POSTER PRESENTATIONS

Bartlett, M and EP Geiduschek. “Topography of the archaeal transcription initiation complex.” 2002. Nucleic Acids Gordon Conference. Roger Williams University, Bristol, Rhode Island.

Bartlett, MS and RL Gourse. “Identification of mutations in RNA polymerase that affect growth rate dependent control of rRNA transcription in E. coli.” 1996. Microbial Stress Response Gordon Conference, Holderness School, Holderness, NH.

Bartlett, MS, IB Castaño, and RL Gourse. “Analysis of the feedback control of rRNA transcription in E. coli.” 1993. 22nd Steenbock Symposium on Protein-Nucleic Acid Interactions, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.

Bartlett, MS, I Castaño, and RL Gourse. “Growth rate dependent control of ribosomal RNA transcription in E. coli is conferred by the sequences from -41 to +1, and can function in the absence of both guanosine tetraphosphate and the FIS activator protein.” 1992. Meeting on Molecular Genetics of Bacteria and Phages, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY.

INVITED SPEAKER

Portland State University, Portland, Oregon. February 2002.

Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego Microbiology Group, San Diego, California. November 2001.

Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. July 2001.