Alexa Bely

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Associate Professor


Contact 
Email: abely@umd.edu
Office Phone: 301.405.0225
Lab: 301.405.0239
Fax: 301.314.9358
Office Address: 0220 Bio-Psych
URL: http://www.life.umd.edu/biology/faculty/bely/BelyLab.htm

Graduate Program Affiliations
  • BISI - BISI-Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB)
  • BISI - BISI-Behavior, Ecology, Evolution, & Systematics (BEES)

Research Interests 
Evolution of regeneration; invertebrate asexual reproduction; animal body plan evolution.

Recent Publications
  • Nyberg, K.G., Conte M.A., Kostyun J.L., Forde A. and A.E. Bely (2012). Transcriptome characterization via 454 pyrosequencing of the annelid Pristina leidyi, an emerging model for studying the evolution of regeneration. BMC Genomics 13:287.
  • Bely, A.E. and J.M. Sikes (2010). Latent regeneration abilities persist following recent evolutionary loss in asexual annelids. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107:1464-1469.

  • Sikes, J.M. and A.E. Bely (2010). Making heads from tails: development of a reversed anterior-posterior axis during budding in an acoel. Developmental Biology 338:86-97.
  • Bely, A. E. and K. G. Nyberg (2010) Evolution of animal regeneration: re-emergence of a field. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 25:161-170.
  • Bely, A.E. and J.M. Sikes (2010). Acoel and platyhelminth models for stem-cell research. Journal of Biology 9:14.
  • Sikes, J. M. and A. E. Bely (2008) Radical modification of the A-P axis and the evolution of asexual reproduction in Convolutriloba acoels. Evolution & Development 10: 619-631. 
  • Bely, A. E. (2006). Distribution of segment regeneration ability in the Annelida. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 46(4): 508-518.
  • Bely, A. E. and D. A. Weisblat (2006). Lessons from leeches: a call for DNA barcoding in the lab. Evolution & Development. 8(6): 491-501.

Education 
Ph.D., State University of New York-Stony Brook, 1999.