Melissa
A. Haendel, Ph.D.
| Education: |
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| 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. |
| 03/2003-present | ZFIN
Scientific Curator, Zebrafish Information Network |
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. |