R. Andrew Cameron

Director, Center for Computational Regulatory Genomics,
Beckman Institute

Senior Research Associate in Biology

Research Interests:

 
Genomic Approaches to the Study of Developmental Biology
 and Reproductive Biology of Marine Invertebrates
Larval Ecology and Settlement
Population Genetics.

Selected Publications

Brown, C. T. Xie, Y., Davidson, E. H. and Cameron, R. A. paircomp, FamilyRelationsII and Cartwheel: tools for interspecific sequence comparison. BMC BioInformatics 6, Art. No. 70, March 24, 2005

Cameron, R. A., Chow, S. H., Berney, K., Chiu, T-Y., Yuan, Q-A., Krämer, A., Helguero, A., Ransick, A., Yun, M., and Davidson, E. H. (2005) An evolutionary constraint: strongly disfavored class of change in DNA sequence during divergence of cis-regulatory modules. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 102: 11769-11774.

Cameron R. A., Rowen L., Nesbitt, R., Bloom S., Rast, J. P., Berney, K., Arenas-Mena, C, Martinez, P., Lucas, S., Richardson, P. M., Davidson E. H., Peterson K, J., and Hood, L. (2006) Unusual Gene Order and Organization of the Sea Urchin Hox Cluster. J. Exp. Zool. (Mol. Dev. Evol.) 304B:1–14.

Bottjer, D. J., Davidson, E. H., Peterson, K. J., Cameron, R. A. 2006. Paleogenomics of echinoderms. Science 314: 956- 960.

The Sea Urchin Sequencing Consortium. 2006. The Purple Sea Urchin Genome. Science, 314: 941-952.

Samanta, Manoj P., Tongprasit, Waraporn, Istrail, Sorin, Cameron, R. Andrew, Tu, Qiang, Davidson, Eric H., Stolc, Viktor. 2006. The transcriptome of the sea urchin embryo. Science 314: 960- 962.

Arenas-Mena, C., Cameron, R. A., Davidson, Eric H. 2006. Hindgut specification and cell-adhesion functions of Sphox11/13b in the endoderm of the sea urchin embryo. Dev. Growth & Differ. 48: 463-472

Howard-Ashby, M., Brown, C. T., Materna, S. C, Chen, L, Davidson, E. H. Gene families encoding transcription factors expressed in early development of Strongylocentrotus purpuratus. Developmental Biology, 300: 90-107.

Materna; S. C., Berney, K., Cameron. R. A. 2006. The Strongylocentrotus purpuratus genome: A comparative perspective. Developmental Biology, 300: 485-495.

Cameron, R. A. and Rast, J. P. 2008. Biological Bulletin virtual symposium: Genomics of large marine metazoans. Biol. Bull. 214: 203-204.

Materna, S. C. and Cameron, R. A. 2008. The sea urchin genome as a window on function. Biol. Bull. 214: 266-273.

Smith, M. M., Smith, L. C., Cameron, R. A., Urry, L. A. 2008. The larval stages of the sea urchin, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus J. Morph. 269: 713-733.

Cameron; R. A., Samanta; M., Yuan; A., He; D., Davidson, E. 2008. SpBase: the sea urchin genome database and web site. Nucleic Acids Research 2008; doi: 10.1093/nar/gkn887.

Cameron RA, Davidson EH. 2009. Flexibility of transcription factor target site position in conserved cis-regulatory modules. Dev Biol. 336:122-35. PMID: 19766623.

Sea Urchin Genome Project web site (SpBase).

The NCBI Sea Urchin Web Page

The Baylor HGSC Sea Urchin Page

The Sea Urchin Gene Catalog (RZPD)

The Macro-array filter manual

How to find me:

1. Room 222 in the Beckman Institute on the Caltech Campus
2. VOICE (626)395-8421
3. FAX (626)795-3382
4. EMAIL acameron at caltech dot edu

Last updated 10-29-2010