Michael T. Howard

Michael T. Howard, PhD

Languages spoken: English

Academic Information

Departments Primary - Human Genetics

Academic Office Information

mhoward@genetics.utah.edu

Research Interests

  • Molecular Biology
  • RNA
  • Selenocysteine
  • Aminoglycosides
  • RNA, Antisense
  • Ribosomes
  • Muscular Dystrophy, Duchenne
  • Recoding
  • Translation

Education History

Postdoctoral Fellowship University of Idaho
 Postdoctoral Fellow
University of North Carolina
 Postdoctoral Fellow
Doctoral Training University of North Carolina
 PhD
University of Colorado
 BA

Selected Publications

Journal Article

  1. Howard MT, Aggarwal G, Anderson CB, Khatri S, Flanigan KM, Atkins JF (2005). Recoding elements located adjacent to a subset of eukaryal selenocysteine-specifying UGA codons. EMBO J, 24(8), 1596-607.
  2. Baranov PV, Henderson CM, Anderson CB, Gesteland RF, Atkins JF, Howard MT (2005). Programmed ribosomal frameshifting in decoding the SARS-CoV genome. Virology, 332(2), 498-510.
  3. Howard MT, Gesteland RF, Atkins JF (2004). Efficient stimulation of site-specific ribosome frameshifting by antisense oligonucleotides. RNA, 10(10), 1653-61.
  4. Howard MT, Anderson CB, Fass U, Khatri S, Gesteland RF, Atkins JF, Flanigan KM (2004). Readthrough of dystrophin stop codon mutations induced by aminoglycosides. Ann Neurol, 55(3), 422-6.

Review

  1. Atkins JF, Baranov PV, Fayet O, Herr AJ, Howard MT, Ivanov IP, Matsufuji S, Miller WA, Moore B, Prere MF, Wills NM, Zhou J, Gesteland RF (2001). Overriding standard decoding: implications of recoding for ribosome function and enrichment of gene expression. [Review]. Cold Spring Harb Symp Quant Biol, 66, 217-32.