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Degrees: 1975 - PhD - University of California, Davis - 1973 - MS - University of California, Davis - 1971 - BS - University of California, Davis - Awards: 2001 National Medal of Science and Technology of Guatemala Grad Group Affiliations and Specialties: Genetics Non-DBS Grad Group(s) - Animal Biology Publications: Wong, M.J., A.D. Islas-Trejo, S. Horvat and J.F. Medrano 2002. Structural characterization of the mouse High Growth deletion and discovery of a novel fusion transcript between suppressor of cytokine signaling-2 (Socs-2) and viral encoded semaphoring receptor (Plexin C1). Gene 299:153-163. Farber, C.R. and J. F. Medrano 2003. In silico anchoring of ESTs, genes and genomic sequence to bovine, porcine and chicken genome maps using SSLP markers. Animal Genetics 34:11-18. Warden, C.H., S. Stone, S. Chiu, A.L. Diament, D. Shattuck, R.Riley, P.Corva, J.Easlick, J.S. Fisler and J.F. Medrano 2004. Identification of a congenic mouse line with obesity and body length phenotypes. Mamm Genome 15:460-71. The Complex Trait Conssortium 2004 The Collaborative Cross, a community resource for the genetic analysis of complex traits Nature Genetics 36:1133 1137. Morimoto, K.C., A. L. Van Eenennaam, E. J. DePeters and J. F. Medrano 2005. Endogenous Production of n-6 and n-3 Fatty Acids in Mammalian Cells. J Dairy Sci. 88:1142-1146. Research Interests: Study of the genetic architecture of growth and obesity traits in mice and domestic animals. Technologies used: congenic lines, eQTL gene expression analysis with microarrays and Real Time PCR, NMR metabolomics, high trhoughput genotyping and phenotyping. Genetic modification of the protein and fatty acid composition of milk. Technologies: SNP discovery, SNP analysis and association studies, and microarrays. Courses Taught: ANG 107 Genetics and Animal Breeding - Term(s): Fall ASE 120 Applied Statistics in Agricultural Sciences Laboratory - Term(s): Fall ANG 212 Sequence Analysis in Molecular Genetics (Bioinformatics) - Term(s): Winter |
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