Natalie Vandepol
she/her/hersEmail: vandepo7@msu.edu
Director of Learning Technology and Development
Department: Dean's Office
- Biography My educational background is in biology, having received a BS in biology from Stanford University and a PhD in Microbiology & Molecular Genetics from MSU. While pursuing my doctorate degree, I found my true calling in instructional design. After completing my Ph.D., I worked for about two years in a postdoctoral role in MSU IT, supporting faculty with the massive shift to online instruction brought about by COVID. In addition to handling Help Desk service tickets, I coordinated, developed, and led virtual webinar trainings on both course design and technical orientation on the full range of MSU-supported instructional tools. In the spring of 2022, I joined the Learning Technology & Development team to collaborate and support Broad faculty & I'm so excited to be here!
My personal interests include spoiling my two cats, collecting spices, cooking, eating, hiking, and rock climbing. - Education PhD Microbiology & Molecular Genetics 2020, Michigan State University
B.S. Biology 2014, Stanford University
- Publications ArticleVandepol N., Liber J, Yocca A, Matlock J, Edger P, Bonito G (2022) Linnemannia elongata (Mortierellaceae) stimulates Arabidopsis thaliana aerial growth and responses to auxin, ethylene, and reactive oxygen species. PLoS ONE 17(4): e0261908.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.026190In collectionVandepol, N. (2020). Mortierellaceae Phylogenomics and Tripartite Plant-Fungal-Bacterial Symbiosis of Mortierella elongata. Michigan State University - Dissertation.
https://www.proquest.com/openview/e0664b2c12c1abfe8e4b70cdf3e09a45/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=44156ArticleVandepol, N., Liber, J., Desirò, A., Na, H., Kennedy, M., Barry, K., ... & Bonito, G. (2020). Resolving the Mortierellaceae phylogeny through synthesis of multi-gene phylogenetics and phylogenomics. Fungal diversity, 104(1), 267-289.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13225-020-00455-5ArticleDu, Z. Y., Zienkiewicz, K., Vandepol, N., Ostrom, N. E., Benning, C., & Bonito, G. M. (2019). Algal-fungal symbiosis leads to photosynthetic mycelium. Elife, 8, e47815.
https://elifesciences.org/articles/47815In proceedingsHejase, H. A., Vandepol, N., Bonito, G. M., & Liu, K. J. (2018, October). Fastnet: fast and accurate statistical inference of phylogenetic networks using large-scale genomic sequence data. In RECOMB International conference on Comparative Genomics (pp. 242-259). Springer, Cham.
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-00834-5_14In proceedingsHejase, H. A., Vandepol, N., Bonito, G. M., Edger, P. P., & Liu, K. J. (2017, August). Coal-Miner: a statistical method for GWA studies of quantitative traits with complex evolutionary origins. In Proceedings of the 8th ACM International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (pp. 107-114).
https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3107411.3107490ArticleGdanetz, K., Benucci, G. M. N., Vandepol, N., & Bonito, G. (2017). CONSTAX: a tool for improved taxonomic resolution of environmental fungal ITS sequences. BMC bioinformatics, 18(1), 1-9.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12859-017-1952-xArticleDesirò, A., Rimington, W. R., Jacob, A., Vandepol, N., Smith, M. E., Trappe, J. M., ... & Bonito, G. (2017). Multigene phylogeny of Endogonales, an early diverging lineage of fungi associated with plants. IMA fungus, 8(2), 245-257.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.5598/imafungus.2017.08.02.03ArticleUehling, J., Gryganskyi, A., Hameed, K., Tschaplinski, T., Misztal, P. K., Wu, S., Desirò, A., Vandepol, N., ... & Bonito, G. (2017). Comparative genomics of Mortierella elongata and its bacterial endosymbiont Mycoavidus cysteinexigens. Environmental microbiology, 19(8), 2964-2983.
https://sfamjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1462-2920.13669
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