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Jessica Warren
Jessica Warren Graduate Assistant

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About

Functional integration of gene products from the mitochondrial (mt) and nuclear genomes is essential to energy conversion and cell physiology. My research investigates the effects that mt gene loss has on cellular networks by utilizing new RNA sequencing technologies and a biological system that is undergoing rapid mt tRNA gene loss. I am testing multiple hypothesis related to the evolutionary mechanisms that facilitate the functional replacement of mt tRNA genes with anciently-divergent nuclear counterparts and how these changes “rewire” networks of interactions with numerous enzymes.

I'm passionate about understanding the evolutionary forces that shape genomes over time. I love to discuss all things molecular evolution, endosymbiosis, phylogenetics, horizontal gene transfer, art and music. 

Publications

  • Incompatibility and interchangeability in molecular evolutionDaniel B. Sloan, Jessica Marie Warren, Alissa Williams, Shady Kuster, Evan Sullivan Forsythe Genome Biology and Evolution, 1, 2023.
  • Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase evolution within the dynamic tripartite translation system of plant cellsDaniel B. Sloan, Rachael DeTar, Jessica Marie Warren bioRxiv.
  • Extensive retargeting of plant aminoacyl tRNA synthetases correlates with mitochondrial tRNA gene lossJessica Marie Warren, Daniel B. Sloan bioRxiv, 2022.
  • Iterative deletion of gene trees detects extreme biases in distance-based phylogenomic coalescent analysesJohn Gatesy, Daniel B. Sloan, Jessica Marie Warren, Mark Simmons, Mark S. Springer bioRxiv, 2022.
  • Combining tRNA sequencing methods to characterize plant tRNA expression and post-transcriptional modificationJessica Marie Warren, Salinas-Giege, Thalia, Guillaume Hummel, Nicole L. Coots, Joshua M. Svendsen, Kristen Chong Brown, Marechal-Drouard, Laurence, Daniel B. Sloan RNA Biology, 2021.
  • Hopeful monsters: unintended sequencing of famously malformed mite mitochondrial tRNAs reveals widespread expression and processing of sense--antisense pairsJessica Marie Warren, Daniel B. Sloan NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics, 1, 2021.
  • Iterative deletion of gene trees quantifies extreme biases in distance-based phylogenomic coalescent analysesJohn Gatesy, Daniel B. Sloan, Jessica M. Warren, Mark Simmons, Mark S. Springer Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.
  • Rapid shifts in mitochondrial tRNA import in a plant lineage with extensive mitochondrial tRNA gene lossJessica Marie Warren, Salinas-Gieg\'e, Thalia, Deborah A. Triant, Douglas R. Taylor, Laurence Drouard, Daniel B. Sloan Molecular Biology and Evolution, 12, 2021.
  • Interchangeable parts: The evolutionarily dynamic tRNA population in plant mitochondriaJessica M. Warren, Dan Benjamin Sloan Mitochondrion.
  • CyMIRA: The Cytonuclear Molecular Interactions Reference for ArabidopsisEvan Sullivan Forsythe, Joel Sharbrough, Justin Chase Havird, Jessica Marie Warren, Daniel B. Sloan Genome Biology and Evolution, 8, 2019.
  • Partitioned coalescence support reveals biases in species-tree methods and detects gene trees that determine phylogenomic conflictsJohn Gatesy, Dan Benjamin Sloan, Jessica Marie Warren, Richard H. Baker, Mark Simmons, Mark S. Springer Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 2019.
  • Cytonuclear integration and co-evolutionDan Benjamin Sloan, Jessica Marie Warren, Allison Marie Williams, Zhiqiang Wu, Salah Esmat Abdel-Ghany, Adam Joseph Chicco, Justin Chase Havird Nature Reviews Genetics, 2018.
  • The mitonuclear dimension of Neanderthal and Denisovan ancestry in modern human genomesJoel Sharbrough, Justin Chase Havird, Gregory R. Noe, Jessica Marie Warren, Dan Benjamin Sloan Genome Biology and Evolution, 6, 2017.
  • Linear plasmids and the rate of sequence evolution in plant mitochondrial genomesJessica Marie Warren, Mark Simmons, Zhiqiang Wu, Dan Benjamin Sloan Genome Biology and Evolution, 2, 2016.