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Degrees:
Ph.D., Univ. of Washington
B.S., Duke Univ.
Dr. Williams is a research professor whose goal is to engage students in lab research. With her students, she examines the diversity of arthropods (e.g., crustaceans and insects) and explores how embryonic development might have been modified during evolution to give rise to the many kinds of arthropods living today. Engagement with research fosters creativity and critical thinking as well as providing a glimpse of the beauty and complexity of animals unlike us. Dr. Williams is interested in how biology intersects with other disciplines ranging from history to philosophy to art and encourages such thinking in her lab.
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Developmental mechanisms controlling the formation of arthropod segments
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Evolution and development of arthropod limbs
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Crustacean morphology and development
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- Auman, T., Vreede, B. M. I., Weiss, A., Hester, S.D., Williams, T.A., Nagy, L. M., and A.D. Chipman. Dynamics of growth zone patterning in the milkweed bug Oncopeltus fasciatus. Development 144 (2017): 1896-1905.
- Williams, Terri A. and L.M. Nagy. Linking gene regulation to cell behaviors in the posterior growth zone of sequentially segmenting arthropods. Arthropod Struct Dev. 46 (2017):380-394.
- Constantinou, S.J. ‘12, Pace, R.M., Stangl, A.J., Nagy, L. M., and T.A. Williams. Wnt repertoire and developmental expression patterns in the crustacean Thamnocephalus platyurus, Evol Dev 18 (5-6):324-341. doi: 10.1111/ede.12204.
- Nakamoto, A., Hester, S.D., Constantinou S.J. '12, Blaine WG'15, Tewksbury AB '13, Matei MT, Nagy LM, Williams TA. Changing cell behaviours during beetle embryogenesis correlates with slowing of segmentation. Nat Commun. Apr 10, 6 (2015):6635.
- Nagy, L.M. and T.A.Williams. EvoDevo And The Promise Of Understanding Morphological Transitions In Evolution. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 99 (2014):289–300.
- Williams, T.A. 2013 Mechanisms Of Limb Patterning In Crustaceans in The Natural History of the Crustacea (Vol. 1): Functional Morphology and Diversity of Crustaceans. Eds: L. Watling and M. Thiel.Oxford University Press, Oxford.
- Williams, TA, Blachuta, B, Hegna, TA, and L.M. Nagy. Decoupling elongation and segmentation: Notch involvement in anostracan crustacean segmentation. Evol. Dev. 14 (2012): 372-82.
- Sewell, W., Williams, T. A., Cooley, J., Terry, M., Ho, R. and L. M. Nagy. "Evidence for a Novel Role for dachshund in Patterning the Proximal Leg." Development Genes and Evolution 218 (2008): 293-305.
- Williams, T.A. "Early Distal-less Expression in a Developing Crustacean Limb Bud Becomes Restricted to Setal Forming Cells. Evolution and Development 10 (2008): 114-120.
- Williams, T. A. "Limb Morphogenesis in the Branchiopod Crustacean, Thamnocephalus platyurus, and the Evolution of Proximal Limb Lobes within Anostraca." Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 45 (2007): 191-201
- Jockusch, E. L., T. A. Williams and L. M. Nagy. "The Evolution of Patterning of Serially Homologous Appendages in Insects." Development Genes and Evolution 214, no. 7 (2004): 324-338.
- Williams, T.A. "The Evolution and Development of Crustacean Limbs: An Analysis of Limb Homologies." In Crustacean Issues 15, Evolutionary Developmental Biology of Crustacea, edited by G. Scholtz, 169-193. Balkema, Lisse, 2004.
- Williams, T.A., C. Nulsen, and L.M. Nagy. "A Complex Role for Distal-less in Crustacean Appendage Development." Developmental Biology 241 (2002): 302-312.
- Nagy, L.M. and T. A. Williams. "Comparative Limb Development as a Tool for Understanding the Evolutionary Diversification of Limbs in Arthropods: Challenging the Modularity Paradigm." In The Character Concept in Evolutionary Biology, edited by G. P. Wagner. New York: Academic Press, 2001.
- Williams, T.A. "Distal-less Expression in Crustaceans and the Patterning of Branched Limbs." Development Genes and Evolution 207 (1998): 427-434.
- Williams T.A. and Nagy, L.M. "Comparative Limb Development in Insects and Crustaceans." Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology 6 (1996): 1-14.
- Manzanares, M., Williams, T.A., Marco, R. and R. Garesse. "Segmentation in the Crustacean Artemia as Revealed by Engrailed Protein Distribution." Roux’s Arch Dev Biol 205 (1996): 424-431.
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- “Convergent extension in a dynamically patterned epithelium”, National Science Foundation, Research Grant, 2018 – 2021
- “Regulating the Tribolium segmentation clock”, National Science Foundation, Research Grant, 2018 – 2021
- “Generating complexity: integrating experimental and computer modeling approaches to link genes and cell behavior in arthropod segmentation”, National Science Foundation, Research Grant, 2013 – 2017
- "A Comparative Analysis of the Growth Zone in Arthropods," National Science Foundation, Research Grant, 2010-2013
- "The Evolution of Patterning Mechanisms within Arthropod limbs," National Science Foundation, Research Grant, 2003-2007
- "Modularity of the Arthropod Body Plan: A Comparative Test," National Science Foundation, Research Grant, 2002-2005
- "Developmental Mechanisms Underlying Diversity in Arthropod Limbs," National Science Foundation, Research Grant, 1999-2001
- Postdoctoral Fellow, International Program, National Science Foundation, 1994-1995
- Pew Teacher/Scholar Post-doctoral Fellow, 1992-1994
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