Dr. Swigonova teaches the following courses:
- Biosc 0150 and 0160: Foundations of biology I and II, resp.
- Biosc 0805: The human body
- Biosc 1285: Genomics laboratory
- Biosc 1855: Introduction to microbiology laboratory
- Biosc 1860: Microbiology Laboratory
Dr. Swigonova received her Ph.D. in 2002 with Dr. Karl Kjer at the Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ; performed her postdoctoral studies with Dr. Joachim Messing at Waksman Institute of Microbiology at Rutgers University and Dr. Jerry Vockley at the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh; and joined the Department in 2007.
Swigonova, Z., Mohsen, A.-W., and J. Vockley. 2009. ACyl-CoA dehydrogenase: Dynamic history of protein family evolution. J. Mol. Evol. 69(2):176-93.
Marinelli, L.J., M. Piuri, Z. Swigonova, A. Balachandran, L.M. Oldfield, K.e.s.s.e. van, and G.F. Hatfull (2008) BRED: a simple and powerful tool for constructing mutant and recombinant bacteriophage genomes. PLoS ONE 3:e3957
Kjer, K. M., Swigonova, Z., LaPolla, J. S., and R. E. Broughton. 2007. Why weight? Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 43: 999-1004.
Chunguang, D., Swigoňová, Z., and J. Messing. 2006. Retrotransposition in orthologous regions of closely related grass species. BMC Evol. Biol. 16;6:62.
Swigoňová, Z., Bennetzen, J. L., and J. Messing. 2005. Structure and evolution of the r/b chromosomal regions in rice, maize, and sorghum. Genetics 169: 891-906.
Swigoňová, Z., Lai, J., Ma, J., Ramakrishna, W., Liaca, V., Bennetzen, J. L., and J. Messing. 2004. Close split of sorghum and maize genome progenitors. Genome Res. 14: 1916-1923.
Lai, J., Ma, J., Swigoňová, Z., Ramakrishna, W., Linton, E., Llaca, V., Tanyolac, B., Park, Y. J., Jeong, O. Y., Bennetzen, J. L., and J. Messing. 2004. Gene loss and movement in the maize genome. Genome Res. 14: 1924-1931.
Swigoňová, Z., Lai, J., Ma, J., Ramakrishna, W., Liaca, V., Bennetzen, J. L., and J. Messing. 2004. On the tetraploid origin of the maize genome. Comp. Funct. Genom. 5: 281-284.
Swigoňová, Z., and K. M. Kjer. 2004. Phylogeny and host plant association in the leaf beetle genus Trirhabda LeConte (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 32:358-374.