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  • Instructional Associate Professor & Director of Lower Division Instruction

Biography

Joined the Department in 2001

Research Interests

Teaching Courses

BIOL 100 Horizons in Biology

Credits 0-1. 0-1 Lecture Hours.

Introduction to the study of biology at Texas A&M University; gain knowledge of departmental and campus resources to assist and enhance the pursuit of a degree in biology, microbiology, molecular and cellular biology or zoology.

BIOL 111 Introductory Biology I

Credits 4. 3 Lecture Hours. 3 Lab Hours.

(BIOL 1306 and 1106, 1406) Introductory Biology I. First half of an introductory two-semester survey of contemporary biology that covers the chemical basis of life, structure and biology of the cell, molecular biology and genetics; includes laboratory that reinforces and provides supplemental information related to the lecture topics.

Educational Background

  • B.S., 1990, Southeast Missouri State University, Biology.
  • M.S., 1994, Southeast Missouri State University, Biology.
  • Ph.D., 2003, Texas A&M University, Plant Pathology & Microbiology.

Awards & Honors

  • 2021 Distinguished Achievement Award in Teaching from the Association of Former Students
  • Provost APT Faculty Teaching Excellence Award 2020—Inaugural class
  • Department of Biology Karl J. Aufderheide Award for Excellence in
    Teaching 2020
  • National Academies Education Fellow 2018

Selected Publications

    • A cis regulatory element in the TAPNAC promoter directs tapetal gene expression. 2011. V. Y. Alvarado, A. Tag and T. L. Thomas. Plant Mol Biol. 75(1-2):129-39.
    • Transcription factors in light and circadian clock signaling networks revealed by genome-wide mapping of direct targets for Neurospora WHITE COLLAR COMPLEX. 2010. K. M. Smith, G. Sancar, R. Dekhang, C. M. Sullivan, S. Lie, A. G. Tag, C. Sancar, E. L. Bredeweg, H. D. Priest, R. F. McCormick, T. L. Thomas, J. C. Carrington, J. E. Stajich, D. Bell-Pedersen, M. Brunner and M. Freitag. Eukaryot. Cell 9:1549-1556.
    • Identification of new genes positively regulated by Tri10 and a regulatory network for trichothecene mycotoxin production. 2003. Peplow, A. W., A. G. Tag, G. F. Garifullina, and M. N. Beremand. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 69:2731-2736.
    • Characterization of the Tri10 gene from Fusarium sporotrichioides. 2003. A.G. Tag. (PhD diss., Texas A&M University).
    • A novel regulatory gene, Tri10, controls trichothecene toxin production and gene expression. 2001. Tag, A.G., Garifullina, G., Peplow, A.W., Ake, C. Jr., Phillips, T.D., Hohn, T. and M.N. Beremand. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 67:5294-5302.
    • G-protein signalling mediates differential production of toxic secondary metabolites. 2000. Tag, A.G., Hicks, J.K., Garifullina, G., Beremand, M.N. and N.P. Keller. Mol. Microbiol. 38:658-667.
    • Construction of a subtraction library from nitrogen-limited mycelia of Schizophyllum
      commune. 1994. A.G. Tag. (Thesis, Southeast Missouri St. Univ.).