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Melissa A. Haendel, Ph.D.  

 

Education:  
Reed College  B.A. Chemistry
Univ. of Wisconsin Ph.D. Neuroscience  
Experience:
07/1997-12/1999  NIH NRSA predoctoral fellowship (Gary Lyons, Sponsor)  
05/1999 Vilas Professional Development Award  
09/20000-2003 Postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Judith Eisen, Ph.D., University of Oregon  
03/2003-present ZFIN Scientific Curator, Zebrafish Information Network, University of Oregon

 Publications while working in Dr. Lyons' lab:  

1.

Haendel, M.A., Bollinger, K.E., Baas, P.W. (1996) Cytoskeletal changes during neurogenesis in cultures of avain neural crest cells. J Neurocytol. 25:289-301.  

2. Baker, R.K., Haendel, M.A., Swanson, B.J., Shambaugh, J.C., Micales, B.K. and Lyons, G.E. (1997) In vitro preselection of gene-trapped embryonic stem cell clones for characterizing novel developmentally regulated genes in the mouse. Dev. Biol. 185:201-214. (The first three authors made equal contributions to this paper.)  
3. Yamakawa, K., Huo, Y., Haendel, M.A., Hubert, R., Chen, X-N., Lyons, G.E., and Korenberg, J.R. (1998) DS-CAM: a novel member of the immunoglobulin superfamily maps in a Down Syndrome region and is involved in the development of the nervous system. Hum. Molec. Genet. 7: 227-237.  
4. Hunter, P.J., Swanson, B.J., Haendel, M.A., Lyons, G.E. and Cross, J.C. (1999) Mrj encodes a DnaJ-related chaperone that is essential for murine placental development. Development 126:1247-1258.  
5. Lyons, G.E., Swanson, B.J., Haendel, M.A., Daniels, J. (2000) Gene trapping in embryonic stem cells to identify and characterize novel developmentally regulated genes in the mouse.  In Methods in Molecular Biology Vol. 136 Dev. Biol. Protocols Vol II., Humana Press, Inc. Totowa, NJ. Chapter 29, pp.297-307.  
6. Haendel, M.A., Wagner, M., Johnson, J., Epstein, M.L. and Lyons, G.E. (2001) Insertional mutagenesis of a novel gene, axotrophin, causes callosal agenesis and sensory neuron degeneration. Dev. Biol., submitted.