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Montona Futrell-Griggs
Purdue University
Dr. Scott Jackson Lab
Soybean Project Manager |
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Montona Futrell-Griggs received a Bachelor of Science degree in Animal Science from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in 1999. Upon completion of that degree, she came to Purdue University to pursue a Ph.D in Animal Science in the Purdue Genetics Program. However, in 2002 she withdrew from the university due to personal reasons and illnesses. In early 2004, Montona began working in the Jackson lab as a technician to assist in the screening of two soybean Glycine max BAC libraries, GMW1 (Gm_ISb001) and GMW2 (GM_WBb), and a Medicago truncalatula BAC library as part of a research project sponsored by the United Soybean Board. After several months, she became the person in charge of the wetlab portion of screening the three previously mentioned libraries, libraries of 13 different species of rice as a part of OMAP, a Zea mays library, and a sorghum library.
Research
- North Carolina State University; Summer 1997 (Microbiology lab under the direction of Dr. Gerry Luginbuhl)- attempting to detect the fim 3 gene of Bordetella avium, a bacterial species that causes a respiratory disease in turkeys called coryza
- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Summer 1998 (Environmental Sciences and Engineering lab under the direction of Dr. Louise Ball)- isolation and identification of DNA-adducts formed due to exposure to cyclopenta[cd]pyrene in rat liver tissue
- Purdue University; Summer 1999 (Animal Science under the direction of Dr. William Muir)-analysis of the effect of copy number and insertion site of the Atlantic salmon growth hormone promoter (sGH) human growth hormone (hGH) gene construct on transgene expression in Japanese medaka (Oryzias latipes)
- Purdue University; 1999-2002 (Animal Science under the direction of Dr. William Muir)- attempting to clone the tilapia growth hormone gene from O. nilotica and create 3 transgenic constructs and transgenic tilapia to study fitness parameters of the transgenic fish
- Purdue University; 2002 (Animal Science under the direction of Dr. Christopher Bidwell)- screening of subtractive sheep BAC libraries to identify and analyze genetic and epigenetic regulation of the callipyge gene and inheritance
Honors
- Golden Key National Honor Society
- Beta Beta Beta National Biological Honor Society
- Gamma Sigma Delta National Agricultural Honor Society
- Beta Kappa Chi Scientific Honor Society
- 1997 First Place at the North Carolina Alliance for Minority Participation Poster Competition
- Ronald E. McNair Scholar
- 1999 Graduate Opportunities Fellow
- 1999 GEM Scholar