Education

Ph.D. in Developmental Genetics, Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine and Department of Biology, New York University, 2003

Professional experience

2010-current: Manager, Programs in the Biomedical Sciences, The Pew Charitable Trusts

Publications

1. Bhogal, B., Jepson, J. E., Savva, Y. A., Pepper, A. S., Reenan, R. A. and Jongens, T. A. (2011). Modulation of dADAR-dependent RNA editing by the Drosophila fragile X mental retardation protein. Nat Neurosci 14(12): 1517-1524.
   
2. Pepper, A. S., Beerman, R. W., Bhogal, B. and Jongens, T. A. (2009). Argonaute2 suppresses Drosophila fragile X expression preventing neurogenesis and oogenesis defects. PLoS One 4(10): e7618.
   
3. Pepper, A. S., McCane, J. E., Kemper, K., Yeung, D. A., Lee, R. C., Ambros, V. and Moss, E. G. (2004). The C. elegans heterochronic gene lin-46 affects developmental timing at two larval stages and encodes a relative of the scaffolding protein gephyrin. Development 131(9): 2049-2059.
   
4. Pepper, A. S., Lo, T. W., Killian, D. J., Hall, D. H. and Hubbard, E. J. (2003). The establishment of Caenorhabditis elegans germline pattern is controlled by overlapping proximal and distal somatic gonad signals. Dev Biol 259(2): 336-350.
   
5. Pepper, A. S., Killian, D. J. and Hubbard, E. J. (2003). Genetic analysis of Caenorhabditis elegans glp-1 mutants suggests receptor interaction or competition. Genetics 163(1): 115-132.
   
6. Gustafsson, M.H.G., A. S.-R. Pepper, V. A. Albert and M. Kallersjo. 2001. Molecular Phylogeny of the Barnedesioideae. Nordic Journal of Botany. Vol. 21, No. 2, pp.149-160.
   
7. Struwe, L., Thiv, M., Kadereit, J. W., Pepper, A. S.-R., Motley, T. J., White, P. J., Rova, J. H., Potgieter, K. and Albert, V. A. (1998). Saccifolium (Saccifoliaceae), an endemic of Sierra de la Neblina on the Brazilian-Venezuelan border, is related to a temperate-alpine lineage of Gentianaceae. Harvard Papers in Botany: 199-214.