Susan S. Golden

Distinguished Professor

Department of Biology, Texas A&M University


Office Address: 314C BSBE

Lab: 845-9821

Phone: 845-9824

Fax: 862-7659

Email: sgolden@tamu.edu

URL: Susan Golden



Mississippi University for Women, Columbus, MS, B.A., 1978, Biology

University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO, Ph.D., 1983, Genetics

University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, Postdoc, 1983-1985, Molecular Biology




Circadian rhythms of gene expression in cyanobacteria




Introductory Biology (BIOL113), Microbial Biotechnology (MICR360), Molecular Biology of Photosynthesis and Light Signal Transduction (BIOL672)




Vakonakis, I., D.A. Klewer, S.B. Williams, S.S. Golden, and A.C. LiWang. 2004. Structure of the N-terminal domain of the circadian clock-associated histidine kinase SasA. J. Mol. Biol. 42:9-17.

Min, H., Y. Liu, C.H. Johnson, and S.S. Golden. 2004. Phase determination of circadian gene expression in Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942. J. Biol. Rhythms 19:103-112.

Vakonakis, I., J. Sun, T. Wu, A. Holzenburg, S.S. Golden, and A.C. LiWang. 2004. NMR Structure of the KaiC-interacting C-terminal domain of KaiA, a circadian clock protein: implications for the KaiA–KaiC interaction. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 101:1479-1484.

Golden, S.S., and S.R. Canales. 2003. Cyanobacterial circadian clocks - timing is everything. Nature Reviews Microbiol. 1:191-199.

Mutsuda, M, K-P. Michel, X. Zhang, B.L. Montgomery, and S.S. Golden. 2003. Biochemical properties of CikA, an unusual phytochrome-like histidine protein kinase that resets the circadian clock in Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942. J. Biol. Chem. 278:19102-19110.

Katayama, M., T. Kondo, J. Xiong, and S.S. Golden. 2003. ldpA encodes an iron-sulfur protein involved in light-dependent modulation of the circadian period in the cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942. J. Bacteriol. 185:1415-1422.