Jennifer Gilner

  Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

21-214 LCCC Kirby Lab, CB# 7295

Lab Phone: 966-6767

Lab Fax: 966-8212
4th Year IVB Trainee
4th Year Graduate Student
MD/PhD
 
Ph.D. Project Description:
Genetic Approaches to Improving Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
Principle Investigator:
Suzanne Kirby, MD, PhD
 
IVB Collaborator:
Oliver Smithies, DPhil
Project Description:
   Transgene-induced enhancement of hemato-vascular differentiation from murine embryonic stem cells.
   
Rotations:
   Dr. Suzanne Kirby: Effects of a truncated erythropoietin receptor (tEpoR) transgene on proliferation and function of dendritic cells derived from murine bone marrow and human umbilical cord blood.
  Dr. Oliver Smithies: Transgene-induced enhancement of hemato-vascular differentiation from murine embryonic stem cells.
 
 
Familiar Techniques:
   In Vitro Hematopoietic and Vascular Differentiation of Embryonic Stem Cells (in particular the BL-CFC (hemangioblast) assay); Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation in Mice; Fluorescence Activated Cell Sorting (FACS)
Other Techniques used in Laboratory:
   Bone marrow harvest from mice; Isolation of Side Population (SP) Hematopoietic Stem Cells from bone marrow; Cobblestone Area Forming Cell Assay
 
Undergraduate degree:
   B.S. in Biochemistry (1999) from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
Other Professional/ Graduate degree(s):
  

Awards/ Scholarships/ Grants/ Fellowships:

   Young Investigator Award, 13th Annual International Vascular Biology Meeting, June 2004, American Society for Investigative Pathology Experimental Pathologist-in-Training Predoctoral Merit Award, 2004, Gertrude B. Elion Mentored Medical Student Research Award, 2003
Publications:
   Bushman, JE, Palmieri, D, Whinna, HC, and FC Church. (2000). Insight into the Mechanism of Asparaginase-Induced Depletion of Antithrombin III in Treatment of Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. Leukemia Research 24, p.559.
 
  
 
  
 
  
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