User:Helen Pickersgill

• Manuscript handling and consulting, grant and report writing

Contact Info

Helen Pickersgill

• Helen Pickersgill

• www.helenpickersgill.com

• editor@helenpickersgill.com

Work Experience

• 2008 - Present, Locum Editor, Science, AAAS.
• 2004 - Present, Freelance Scientific Writing Consultant. Handling Manuscripts, Grants and Reports.
• 2007-2008, Scientific Editor, Developmental Cell, Cell Press, Cambridge, USA.
• 2006-2007, Post-doctoral Associate, Whitehead Institute, Cambridge, USA. Dr. Thijn Brummelkamp
• 2001-2005, Post-doctoral Fellow, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Dr. Maarten Fornerod
• 2001, PhD, Paterson Institute for Cancer Research, Manchester, UK. Prof. Terry Allen

Main Research interests

1. Cell and Molecular Biology
2. Chromatin Organisation and Gene Expression
3. Molecular Mechanisms of Cancer
4. Nucleocytoplasmic Transport

Scientific Publications

1. Wellbrock C, Rana S, Paterson H, Pickersgill H, Brummelkamp T, and Marais R. Oncogenic BRAF regulates melanoma proliferation through the lineage specific factor MITF. PLoS One. 2008 Jul 16;3(7):e2734. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0002734 |
2. Pickersgill H, Kalverda B, de Wit E, Talhout W, Fornerod M, and van Steensel B. Characterization of the Drosophila melanogaster genome at the nuclear lamina. Nat Genet. 2006 Sep;38(9):1005-14. DOI:10.1038/ng1852 |
3. Bernad R, Engelsma D, Sanderson H, Pickersgill H, and Fornerod M. Nup214-Nup88 nucleoporin subcomplex is required for CRM1-mediated 60 S preribosomal nuclear export. J Biol Chem. 2006 Jul 14;281(28):19378-86. DOI:10.1074/jbc.M512585200 |
4. Bernad R, van der Velde H, Fornerod M, and Pickersgill H. Nup358/RanBP2 attaches to the nuclear pore complex via association with Nup88 and Nup214/CAN and plays a supporting role in CRM1-mediated nuclear protein export. Mol Cell Biol. 2004 Mar;24(6):2373-84. DOI:10.1128/MCB.24.6.2373-2384.2004 |
5. Walther TC, Alves A, Pickersgill H, Loïodice I, Hetzer M, Galy V, Hülsmann BB, Köcher T, Wilm M, Allen T, Mattaj IW, and Doye V. The conserved Nup107-160 complex is critical for nuclear pore complex assembly. Cell. 2003 Apr 18;113(2):195-206. DOI:10.1016/s0092-8674(03)00235-6 |
6. Walther TC, Pickersgill HS, Cordes VC, Goldberg MW, Allen TD, Mattaj IW, and Fornerod M. The cytoplasmic filaments of the nuclear pore complex are dispensable for selective nuclear protein import. J Cell Biol. 2002 Jul 8;158(1):63-77. DOI:10.1083/jcb.200202088 |
7. Walther TC, Fornerod M, Pickersgill H, Goldberg M, Allen TD, and Mattaj IW. The nucleoporin Nup153 is required for nuclear pore basket formation, nuclear pore complex anchoring and import of a subset of nuclear proteins. EMBO J. 2001 Oct 15;20(20):5703-14. DOI:10.1093/emboj/20.20.5703 |

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Scientific Writing Publications

• Ce-M-M- Center for Molecular Medicine, Scientific Annual Report, 2007.
• http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/articles/columnists/people/helen-pickersgill/
• http://www.lablit.com/article/152
• http://www.lablit.com/article/62
• http://www.lablit.com/article/33
• http://www.lablit.com/article/51

Sample of Edited Scientific Manuscripts

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1. Paper1 pmid=15960973
2. Paper2 pmid=16325574
3. Paper3 pmid=15694335
4. Paper4 pmid=16314428
5. Paper5 pmid=16287713
6. Paper6 pmid=15193262
7. Paper7 pmid=15307140
8. Paper8 pmid=12917690