User:Molly Craxton

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Molly Craxton - Neurobiology Division, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge UK - molly@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk

Technical expertise in DNA sequencing and sequence analysis, interested in genes and evolution. I have been identifying synaptotagmin genes since the mid-1990s. Synaptotagmin proteins are known to play an important role in synaptic vesicle exocytosis. I found genes similar to animal synaptotagmin genes, in the Arabidopsis genome, when it was published. Since that time I have been trying to understand the evolutionary relationships, and to consider the functional relationships, among animal synaptotagmins and their counterparts in plants.