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	Home Projects People Publications CisRegulation Info Diversions		John Waldron John graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a BS in Biological Sciences in 2005 and an M. Ed. in 2007. He is currently focused on evaluating the quantitative relationships between changes in mRNA and protein levels in cells responding to stress. Differences in gene expression provide the material basis for a large proportion of phenotypic diversity within and among genotypes, populations, and species. However, evidence would suggest that a large component of variation in the transcriptome is effectively neutral with regard to fitness. Through the integration of transcriptomic and proteomic responses to environmental stress, John hopes to better understand the importance of post-transcriptional regulation, the relative importance of adaptive and neutral processes in transcriptome evolution, and the evolution of phenotypic plasticity through gene regulation.