Singh Lab 2012 Dr. Shiva Singh
Molecular Genetics of Complex Diseases and Phenotype
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Current Graduate Students
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Sean Addison BSc (Hons) The role of microRNA in maintaining long-term neural gene dysregulation in a mouse model of fetal alcohol exposure. |
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Ben Laufer PhD |
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Sujit Maiti MSc Bioinformatics analysis of genome-wide data in monozygotic twins |
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Eric Diehl MSc Epigentic basis of FASD: role of histone modifications in aberant hippocampal gene expression |
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Christina Castelani PhD Complete Genome Sequence Based Genetic Analysis of Monozygotic Twins Discordant (MZD) for Schizophrenia and Their Families. |
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Aniruddho Chokroborty-Hoque PhD Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders: Looking at the role of rehabilitation through the lens of brain, behavior and genes. |
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Katarzyna Janus PhD Early and mid-gestation alcohol exposure and its effects on offspring behavior and brain gene expression. |
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Morgan Kleiber PhD Genes, pathways and behaviours affected in fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD): studies on an animal model. |
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Haroon Sheikh PhD Molecular genetics of early-age physiological stress response and its role in temperamental vulnerability to depression. |
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Raihan Uddin PhD Construction of Bayesian gene regulatory networks from microarray gene expression data in cognitive impairment |
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Patrick McDonald Post-doctoral Fellow Copy Number Variation (CNV) and Epigenetic analyses in schizophrenia |
Past Graduate Students
| Patrick | McDonald | Ph.D. | 2008 | Epigenetic studies on candidate genes for schizophrenia located on chromosome 6 |
| Melissa | Symons | M.Sc. | 2008 | Analysis of ethanol-responsive genes as candidates for ethanol preference in mice |
| Brenda | Murphy | Ph.D. | 2007 | Methylation studies on COMT and SYNIII genes on 22q in schizophrenia |
| Katina | Kam | M.Sc. | 2005 | Ethanol preference and brain candidate gene expression in C57BL/6J and BALB/CJ and their RI lines |
| Julie | Treadwell | Ph.D. | 2004 | Candidate genes for ethanol preference identified through brain gene expression screening and genetic segregation in mice |
| Kimberly | Loney | M.Sc. | 2004 | Mouse metallothioneins and ethanol preference: Analyses of brain gene expression, co-segregation, and knockout studies |
| Ramajana | Bundalo-Kalaba | M.Sc. | 2004 | Genetics of behavioral phenotypes using C57BL/6J and BALB/CJ strains of mice, genome-wide brain gene expression and molecular characterization of the KIR4.1 gene |
| Michelle | Harrison | Ph.D. | 2003 | Genome-wide brain expression based search for candidate genes for alcohol preference in mice |
| Patrick | McDonald | M.Sc. | 2001 | Use of representational difference analysis in the assessment of any genetic differences between monozygotic twins discordant for schizophrenia |
| Michael | Lewis | M.Sc. | 2001 | An assessment of DNA differences between monozygotic twins discordant for schizophrenia using representational difference analysis (RDA) |
| Raihan | Uddin | M.Sc. | 2000 | Differentially expressed brain cDNAs and alcohol preference or avoidance in mice |
| Paromita | Deb-Rinker | Ph.D. | 2000 | Human endogenous retroviral (Herv)-related sequences and their possible association with schizophrenia |
| Debora | Mancini | Ph.D. | 1999 | Methylation-mediated inactivation of tumour suppressor genes |
| Tillie | Chiu | M.Sc. | 1998 | Differential display in the isolation and characterization of expressed sequences related to ethanol preference in mice |
| Timothy | Klempan | M.Sc. | 1998 | Representational difference analysis (RDA) involving human retroviral-related sequences and their possible role in schizophrenia |
| Xiaomin | Song | M.Sc. | 1997 | Distribution and molecular characterization of #'-UTR binding proteins specific to the (U)15 region of Cas-1 gene |
| Andor | Kiss | M.Sc. | 1997 | A spatial and temporal study of mRNA binding proteins specific to a 134 base CA dinucleotide rich portion of the 3'-untranslated region from the BALB/c mouse catalase gene, Cas-1 |
| Indira | Pillay | M.Sc. | 1996 | Analysis of tissue-specific cytosine methylation in the CpG island of the Cas-I gene in mouse |
| Nicholas | Schisler | Ph.D. | 1996 | The antioxidant enzymes (superoxide dismutase, catalase and glutathione peroxidase): their molecular revolution and regulation in mice |
| Kathleen | Hill | Ph.D. | 1995 | Evolutionary dynamics of two loci of the human genome as assessed by examination of nucleotide sequence diversity and organization |
| Dorothy | Reimer | Ph.D. | 1994 | The molecular genetics of mouse catalase |
| Shari | Bond | Ph.D. | 1992 | Cytolic acetaldehyde dehydrogenase (Ahd-2) in mice: cDNA sequence, molecular characterization and a possible role in ethanol sensitivity. |
| Christine | Tagliabracci | M.Sc. | 1992 | The molecular genetics of the effect of ethanol on the genes of alcohol metabolism in mice: a possible role in ethanol preference |
| Mellissa | Wigle | M.Sc. | 1990 | DNA methylation and genomic imprinting of endogenous genes on mouse chromosome 11 |
| Stephanie | Ditta | M.Sc. | 1990 | Restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) and HLA haplotype analysis of three narcoleptic caucasian families |
| Joseph | Frappier | M.Sc. | 1989 | Enhanced ferritin synthesis in brain and kidney of lithium-treated mice |
| Samar | El-Hage | M.Sc. | 1989 | Developmental expression of genes of oxygen radical metabolism in mice and their possible role in the formation of chromatid exchanges (SCE) |
| Shari | Bond | M.Sc. | 1987 | Methyl nitrosourea (MNU) induced sister chromatic exchanges (SCES) and unscheduled DNA synthesis (UDS) in vivo in mice (Mus musculus). The effects of background genotype during aging. |
| Sharmila | Perera | M.Sc. | 1987 | Characterization of sanfilippo: A (mucopolysaccaridosis IIIA) genotypes |
| Angela | Porter | M.Sc. | 1987 | Genotoxicity evaluation using pre- and post-implantation mouse embryos in vitro and in vivo |
| Vicjen | Wei | M.Sc. | 1986 | Biochemical genetics of the effects on chronic ethanol treatment in mice |
| Caroline | Wang | M.Sc. | 1983 | Genetic regulation of liver alcohol dehydrogenase on response to ethanol in mice |
| Dorothy | Reimer | M.Sc. | 1983 | Inherited variations associated with cyclophosphamide-induced chromosome damage in Mus musculus |
| Munir | El-Kassem | M.Sc. | 1982 | Pharmacogenetic phenotypes produced by lithium chloride, and their genetic basis in mice |
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