Faculty Profile

Trish Berger
Professor of Animal Science
Animal Science
2147 Meyer Hall
Office 752-1267
Lab
tberger@ucdavis.edu
[Picture of Trish Berger]
Fertilization emphasizing receptor-ligands involved in sperm-oocyte plasma membrane interactions; subfertility and reproductive toxicant models.

Degrees:
1980 - PhD - Purdue University - Animal Science
1977 - MS - Purdue University - Animal Science
1975 - BA - University of Kansas - Biochemistry

Department and Center Affiliations:
Animal Science

Professional Societies:
American Society of Cell Biology
Society for the Study of Reproduction

Grad Group Affiliations and Specialties:
Cell and Developmental Biology
Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Physiology
Non-DBS Grad Group(s) - Animal Biology

Publications:
Berger T, McCarthy, M, Pearl CA, At-Taras E, Roser JF, Conley, A. (2007) Reducing endogenous estrogens during the neonatal and juvenile periods affects reproductive tract development and sperm production in postpuberal boars. Animal Reproduction Science doi:10.1016/j.anireprosci.2007.10.003

Wu, KL and Berger, T. (2008) Ovarian gene expression is stable after exposure to trichloroethylene. Toxicology Letters doi:10.1016/j.toxlet.2007.12.008

Berger T, Roberts B. (in press) Reduced immunolabeling of a porcine oocyte membrane protein reflects reduced fertilizability of porcine oocytes following elevated ambient temperature. Reproduction in Domestic Animals.

Wu KL, and Berger T. 2007. Trichloroethylene metabolism in the rat ovary reduces oocyte fertilizability. Chemico-Biological Interactions 170:20-30

Ramesh R, Pearl CA, At-Taras E, Roser JF, Berger, T. 2007. Ontogeny of androgen and estrogen receptor expression in porcine testis: effect of reducing testicular estrogen synthesis. Animal Reproduction Science 102: 286-299.

Pearl, CA, At-Taras E, Berger T and Roser JF. 2007. Reduced endogenous estrogen delays epididymal development but has no effect on efferent duct morphology in boars. Reproduction 134: 593–604.

Pearl CA, Berger T, Roser, JF. 2007. Estrogen and Androgen Receptor Expression in Relation to Steroid Concentrations in the Adult Boar Epididymis. Domestic Animal Endocrinology 33:451-459.

Corbin CJ, Hughes AL, Heffelfinger JR, Berger T, Waltzek TB, Roser JF, Santos TC, Miglino MA, Oliveira MF, Braga FC, Meirelles FV, Conley AJ. 2007. Evolution of suiform aromatases: ancestral duplication with conservation of tissue-specific expression in the collared peccary (Pecari tayassu) J Molecular Evololution doi: 10.1007/s00239-007-9021-0.

At-Taras EE, Berger T, McCarthy MJ, Conley AJ, Nitta-Oda BS, and Roser JF. 2006. Reducing Estrogen Synthesis Increases Testis Size and Total Sperm Production in Developing Boars. Journal of Andrology 27:552-559.

McCarthy MJ, At-Taras EE, Pearl CA, Nitta-Oda BS, Roser JF, Conley AJ, and Berger T. 2006. Suppression of Endogenous Estrogen during Development Affects Porcine Epididymal Sperm Maturation. Molecular Reproduction and Development 73:1122-1128.

Ducummon C, and Berger T. 2006. Localization of the Rho GTPases and Some Rho Effector Proteins in the Sperm of Several Mammalian Species. Zygote 14:249-257

At-Taras E, Kim I, Berger T, Conley A, Roser JF. 2006. Reducing endogenous estrogen during development alters hormone production by porcine Leydig cells and seminiferous tubules. Domestic Animal Endocrinology doi:10.1016/j.domaniend.2006.11.003.

At-Taras, E.E., A.J. Conley, T. Berger, and J.F. Roser. 2006. Reducing estrogen synthesis does not affect gonadotropin secretion in the developing boar. Biology Reproduction.74: 58-66.

Berger, T. 2006. Sperm Capacitation. In: Encyclopedia of Animal Science.

Sartini, B.L. and T. Berger. 2003. Changes in oocyte plasma membrane binding sites on boar spermatozoa with capacitation and acrosome reactions. Reproduction 125:865-870.

Research Interests:
Fertilization, sperm-oocyte interaction, toxicant effects on gamete fertilizability/fertilizing ability, male fertility, in vitro oocyte maturation, and embryo culture.

Laboratory Personnel:
Gamete Biology Laboratory - Barbara Nitta-Oda Abigail Polley Eddy Cao
http://animalscience.ucdavis.edu/faculty/berger/Research/default.htm

Teaching Interests:


Mentorship of graduate student research projects, graduate level course in Mammalian Gametogenesis and Fertilization (PGG 222, a specialty course in the Designated Emphasis in Reproductive Bio

Courses Taught:
NPB 121 Physiology of Reproduction - Term(s): Winter
NPB 121L Physiology of Reproduction Laboratory - Term(s): Winter