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**Evolution of transcription factor binding | **Evolution of transcription factor binding | ||
==Ongoing | ==Ongoing research== | ||
===Comparative genomics and evolution=== | ===Comparative genomics and evolution=== | ||
**Genomics regions associated with duplications, insertions, deletions and disease | **Genomics regions associated with duplications, insertions, deletions and disease |
Revision as of 02:05, 14 May 2007
Michael Wilson, PhD Cancer Research UK
Cambridge Research Institute |
I am a Postdoctoral Research fellow in Duncan Odom's laboratory at the Cambridge Research Insitute
My PhD and some post doctoral work was done in the Koop lab at the Centre for Biomedical Research at University of Victoria.
Research Interests
Current research
Comparative genomics and evolution
- Evolution of transcription factor binding
Ongoing research
Comparative genomics and evolution
- Genomics regions associated with duplications, insertions, deletions and disease
- 7q11 William-Beuren syndrome
- 7q22 Acute myeloid leukemia
- Paired immunoglobulin like receptors
- Segmental duplications
- Alternative splicing
Using mouse genetics and embryonic stem cells to investigate the function of novel genes
- Zonadhesin -- Zonadhesin is a novel gene that is under positive selection and is hypothesized to play a role in the species specific recognition of sperm and egg in mammals (In collaboration with Steve Tardif, Daniel Hardy and Andras Nagy)
- Ars2 -- Ars2 was first discovered by others as a gene that conferred arsenite resistance to an arsenite sensitive cell line. We characterized this gene in humans and mice and are currently studying the phenotype of Ars2 mutants. This is in collaboration with Andras Nagy, Perry Howard, Robert Burke and Diana Wang.
- Gnrhr -- This is a collaboration with Dr. Nancy Sherwood and Sheng Wu.
Education
PhD, University of Victoria, October 2005
B.Sc., University of Victoria. My undergraduate degree was in Biochemistry and Hispanic studies.