User:Mdwilson


 * I am a postdoctoral researcher in Duncan Odom's laboratory at the Cambridge Research Institute


 * My PhD and some postdoctoral work was done in the Koop lab at the Centre for Biomedical Research at University of Victoria.

= Research Interests =

=Current Research=

Evolution of transcription factor binding
An experimental and global comparison of core transcriptional regulatory programs in human to other model organisms will provide insight into the transcription factor binding events that are essential for liver function in mammals. We are detecting evolutionarily conserved regulatory protein binding events and their underlying DNA sequence and are also identifying novel, species-specific binding events. By identifying transcriptional regulatory networks in healthy tissue, we can make comparisons to cancerous, damaged or developing tissues. Furthermore, the methodology, and reagents developed here, will be directly applicable to future studies using a variety of tissues and tumours.

= Education= PhD, Department of Biology, University of Victoria. B.Sc., University of Victoria. Biochemistry and Hispanic studies.

=Publications=