Katherine Kretovich Billmyre

The paper shows that defects in Piwi and germ granules in C. elegans lead to reproductive arrest through altered germ granules, not transposon activation, causing sterility.

This study shows that X chromosomes and autosomes have different sensitivity to SC disruption in meiosis, indicating distinct regulatory mechanisms.

This paper identifies a meiosis-specific function of the phosphatase GSP-2 in promoting germ cell immortality through small RNA-mediated genome silencing in C. elegans.