David Booth, PhD

Assistant Professor
Biochemistry and Biophysics
+1 415 921-9772
Research Summary: 
With a combination of molecular genetics, biochemistry, functional genomics, and cell biology, we are exploring the molecular mechanisms and environmental cues that govern the transitions between different choanoflagellates cell types.
Publications: 

An RFX transcription factor regulates ciliogenesis in the closest living relatives of animals.

Current biology : CB

Coyle MC, Tajima AM, Leon F, Choksi SP, Yang A, Espinoza S, Hughes TR, Reiter JF, Booth DS, King N

Cell polarity in the protist-to-animal transition.

Current topics in developmental biology

Brunet T, Booth DS

The history of Salpingoeca rosetta as a model for reconstructing animal origins.

Current topics in developmental biology

Booth DS, King N

Rapid deployment of SARS-CoV-2 testing: The CLIAHUB.

PLoS pathogens

Crawford ED, Acosta I, Ahyong V, Anderson EC, Arevalo S, Asarnow D, Axelrod S, Ayscue P, Azimi CS, Azumaya CM, Bachl S, Bachmutsky I, Bhaduri A, Brown JB, Batson J, Behnert A, Boileau RM, Bollam SR, Bonny AR, Booth D, Borja MJB, Brown D, Buie B, Burnett CE, Byrnes LE, Cabral KA, Cabrera JP, Caldera S, Canales G, Castañeda GR, Chan AP, Chang CR, Charles-Orszag A, Cheung C, Chio U, Chow ED, Citron YR, Cohen A, Cohn LB, Chiu C, Cole MA, Conrad DN, Constantino A, Cote A, Crayton-Hall T, Darmanis S, Detweiler AM, Dial RL, Dong S, Duarte EM, Dynerman D, Egger R, Fanton A, Frumm SM, Fu BXH, Garcia VE, Garcia J, Gladkova C, Goldman M, Gomez-Sjoberg R, Gordon MG, Grove JCR, Gupta S, Haddjeri-Hopkins A, Hadley P, Haliburton J, Hao SL, Hartoularos G, Herrera N, Hilberg M, Ho KYE, Hoppe N, Hosseinzadeh S, Howard CJ, Hussmann JA, Hwang E, Ingebrigtsen D, Jackson JR, Jowhar ZM, Kain D, Kim JYS, Kistler A, Kreutzfeld O, Kulsuptrakul J, Kung AF, Langelier C, Laurie MT, Lee L, Leng K, Leon KE, Leonetti MD, Levan SR, Li S, Li AW, Liu J, Lubin HS, Lyden A, Mann J, Mann S, Margulis G, Marquez DM, Marsh BP, Martyn C, McCarthy EE, McGeever A, Merriman AF, Meyer LK, Miller S, Moore MK, Mowery CT, Mukhtar T, Mwakibete LL, Narez N, Neff NF, Osso LA, Oviedo D, Peng S, Phelps M, Phong K, Picard P, Pieper LM, Pincha N, Pisco AO, Pogson A, Pourmal S, Puccinelli RR, Puschnik AS, Rackaityte E, Raghavan P, Raghavan M, Reese J, Replogle JM, Retallack H, Reyes H, Rose D, Rosenberg MF, Sanchez-Guerrero E, Sattler SM, Savy L, See SK, Sellers KK, Serpa PH, Sheehy M, Sheu J, Silas S, Streithorst JA, Strickland J, Stryke D, Sunshine S, Suslow P, Sutanto R, Tamura S, Tan M, Tan J, Tang A, Tato CM, Taylor JC, Tenvooren I, Thompson EM, Thornborrow EC, Tse E, Tung T, Turner ML, Turner VS, Turnham RE, Turocy MJ, Vaidyanathan TV, Vainchtein ID, Vanaerschot M, Vazquez SE, Wandler AM, Wapniarski A, Webber JT, Weinberg ZY, Westbrook A, Wong AW, Wong E, Worthington G, Xie F, Xu A, Yamamoto T, Yang Y, Yarza F, Zaltsman Y, Zheng T, DeRisi JL

Genetic tool development in marine protists: emerging model organisms for experimental cell biology.

Nature methods

Faktorová D, Nisbet RER, Fernández Robledo JA, Casacuberta E, Sudek L, Allen AE, Ares M, Aresté C, Balestreri C, Barbrook AC, Beardslee P, Bender S, Booth DS, Bouget FY, Bowler C, Breglia SA, Brownlee C, Burger G, Cerutti H, Cesaroni R, Chiurillo MA, Clemente T, Coles DB, Collier JL, Cooney EC, Coyne K, Docampo R, Dupont CL, Edgcomb V, Einarsson E, Elustondo PA, Federici F, Freire-Beneitez V, Freyria NJ, Fukuda K, García PA, Girguis PR, Gomaa F, Gornik SG, Guo J, Hampl V, Hanawa Y, Haro-Contreras ER, Hehenberger E, Highfield A, Hirakawa Y, Hopes A, Howe CJ, Hu I, Ibañez J, Irwin NAT, Ishii Y, Janowicz NE, Jones AC, Kachale A, Fujimura-Kamada K, Kaur B, Kaye JZ, Kazana E, Keeling PJ, King N, Klobutcher LA, Lander N, Lassadi I, Li Z, Lin S, Lozano JC, Luan F, Maruyama S, Matute T, Miceli C, Minagawa J, Moosburner M, Najle SR, Nanjappa D, Nimmo IC, Noble L, Novák Vanclová AMG, Nowacki M, Nuñez I, Pain A, Piersanti A, Pucciarelli S, Pyrih J, Rest JS, Rius M, Robertson D, Ruaud A, Ruiz-Trillo I, Sigg MA, Silver PA, Slamovits CH, Jason Smith G, Sprecher BN, Stern R, Swart EC, Tsaousis AD, Tsypin L, Turkewitz A, Turnšek J, Valach M, Vergé V, von Dassow P, von der Haar T, Waller RF, Wang L, Wen X, Wheeler G, Woods A, Zhang H, Mock T, Worden AZ, Lukeš J

Predicted glycosyltransferases promote development and prevent spurious cell clumping in the choanoflagellate S. rosetta.

eLife

Wetzel LA, Levin TC, Hulett RE, Chan D, King GA, Aldayafleh R, Booth DS, Sigg MA, King N

Transfection of choanoflagellates illuminates their cell biology and the ancestry of animal septins.

Molecular biology of the cell

Booth DS, Szmidt-Middleton H, King N

A structurally plastic ribonucleoprotein complex mediates post-transcriptional gene regulation in HIV-1.

Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. RNA

Fernandes JD, Booth DS, Frankel AD

Transition step during assembly of HIV Tat:P-TEFb transcription complexes and transfer to TAR RNA.

Molecular and cellular biology

D'Orso I, Jang GM, Pastuszak AW, Faust TB, Quezada E, Booth DS, Frankel AD

Fabs enable single particle cryoEM studies of small proteins.

Structure (London, England : 1993)

Wu S, Avila-Sakar A, Kim J, Booth DS, Greenberg CH, Rossi A, Liao M, Li X, Alian A, Griner SL, Juge N, Yu Y, Mergel CM, Chaparro-Riggers J, Strop P, Tampé R, Edwards RH, Stroud RM, Craik CS, Cheng Y

HIV Rev response element (RRE) directs assembly of the Rev homooligomer into discrete asymmetric complexes.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Daugherty MD, Booth DS, Jayaraman B, Cheng Y, Frankel AD

Signal sequences activate the catalytic switch of SRP RNA.

Science (New York, N.Y.)

Bradshaw N, Neher SB, Booth DS, Walter P