About
Biographies
Research Interests and Accomplishments
Gwyn Benders joined Ham Smith's Synthetic Biology and Bioenergy research group in August 2005 as a post-doctoral fellow, and is now a staff scientist. She works under the advisorship of John Glass on both mycoplasma and yeast genetics as they relate to genomic engineering.
Gwyn received a B.A. in Biology from Bard College, New York, and a Ph.D. in Genetics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Clyde A. Hutchison III advised her dissertation, Transcriptional Organization in the Reduced Genome of Mycoplasma genitalium.
In November 2007 she moved to JCVI West in San Diego, CA, but remains part of the same research group in Rockville, MD.
Select Publications
Gibson, D. G., Benders, G. A., et al.
Complete Chemical Synthesis, Assembly, and Cloning of a Mycoplasma genitalium Genome
Science. 2008 Jan 24;
Benders, G. A., Powell, B. C., et al.
Transcriptional analysis of the conserved ftsZ gene cluster in Mycoplasma genitalium and Mycoplasma pneumoniae
J Bacteriol. 2005 Jul 01; 187(13): 4542-51.
Yamada, N. A., Smith, G. A., et al.
Relative rates of insertion and deletion mutations in dinucleotide repeats of various lengths in mismatch repair proficient mouse and mismatch repair deficient human cells
Mutat Res. 2002 Feb 20; 499(2): 213-25.