Annette W. Coleman

Annette W. Coleman (1934 – July 10, 2023) was a Stephen T. Olney Professor Emerita of Natural History at Brown University, where she was a faculty member in the Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry.^[1]

Biography

Her work examines "...the nature, quantity and mode of distribution of DNA genomes of mitochondria and plastids," as well as "...the species problem, how separate species evolve. The work examines particular species and genera of the volvocales, freshwater green algae, brown algae, and abalones, and the analysis includes mating compatibility, chromosome number, and DNA relatedness as determined by sequencing."^[2]

Coleman attended Barnard College, graduating with an A.B. in 1955, and earned her doctorate in plant science at Indiana University^[which?] in 1958.^[3][4] She was a Guggenheim Fellow in natural sciences and plant sciences in 1983.^[5]

Selected works

Books

• Coleman, A. W.; Goff, L. J.; Stein-Taylor, J. R. (1989), Algae as Experimental Systems, Wiley-Liss.

Book chapters

• Coleman, A. W.; Proschold, T. (2005), "Control of sexual reproduction in algae in culture", in Andersen, R. A. (ed.), Algal Culturing Techniques, Academic Press.
• Goff, L. J.; Coleman, A. W. (1990), "DNA: Microspectroflurometric studies", in Cole, K. M.; Sheath, R. G. (eds.), Biology of the Red Algae, Cambridge University Press.

Journal papers

• Corriveau, Joseph L.; Coleman, Annette W. (1988), "Rapid screening method to detect potential biparental inheritance of plastid DNA and results for over 200 angiosperm species", American Journal of Botany, 75 (10): 1443–1458, doi:10.2307/2444695, JSTOR 2444695.
• Melaragno, J. E.; Mehrotra, B.; Coleman, A. W. (1993), "Relationship between endopolyploidy and cell size in epidermal tissue of Arabidopsis", The Plant Cell, 5 (11): 1661–1668, doi:10.1105/tpc.5.11.1661, PMC 160394, PMID 12271050.
• Coleman, Annette W. (2003), "ITS2 is a double-edged tool for eukaryote evolutionary comparisons", Trends in Genetics, 19 (7): 370–375, doi:10.1016/S0168-9525(03)00118-5, PMID 12850441.

References

1. "Josephine Stinson Obituary (1926 - 2016) - Legacy Remembers". Legacy.com. 21 August 2021. Retrieved 2025-04-05.
2. "Faculty Profile, Annette Coleman, PhD". Brown University. Retrieved 22 May 2014.
3. "Annette Coleman, PhD". Brown University. Retrieved 22 May 2014.
4. Indiana University Biology Alumni Newsletter III(1), Spring 1986, retrieved 2014-08-22.
5. Guggenheim Fellow profile Archived August 26, 2014, at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 2014-08-22.

External links

• Researchers @ Brown profile
• Brown Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry