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AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Craniofacial Developmental Biology;
Pre-natal Growth and Development
CURRENT TEACHING RESPONSIBILITIES:
Course Director-Craniofacial Growth
and Development
Lectures on Craniofacial Embryology-Graduate
Oral Biology Core Curriculum
Lectures on Developmental Biology-Craniofacial
Growth and Development
PRESENTATIONS (5 most recent):
- "Immunohistochemistry of
Connexin Expression in Bone Following Antisense Oligodeoxynucleotide
Blockade". International Association for Dental Research,
June 26, 1998, Nice, France.
- "Antisense Oligonucleotide
Blockade of Connexin Expression during Embryonic Bone Formation".
International Association for Dental Research, March 22, 1997,
Orlando FL.
- "Craniofacial Development
in Fetal Mice Lacking Connexin 43". International Association
for Dental Research, March 15, 1996, San Francisco, CA.
- "Specific Expression of Gap
Junction Proteins during Avian Mandibular Osteogenesis".
International Association for Dental Research, March 13, 1994,
Seattle, WA.
- "Connexin Expression in the
Developing Avian Cardiovascular System". American Society
for Cell Biology, November 19, 1992, Denver, Colorado.
PUBLICATIONS (5 most recent)
- Minkoff, R.; Bales, E.S.; Kerr
C.A.; and Struss, W.E. Antisense oligonucleotide blockade of
connexin espression during embyonic bone formation: evidence
of functional compensation within a mutigene family. Developmental
Genetics. 24: 43-56, 1999.
- Rundus, V.R.; Marshall, G.B.;
Parker, S.B.; Bales, E.S.; Hertzberg, E.L.; and Minkoff, R.
Association of cell and substrate adhesion molecules with connexin43
during intramembranous bone formation. Histochem. J. 30:879-96,
1998.
- Minkoff, R.; Parker, S.B.; Rundus,
V.R.; and Hertzberg, E.L. Expression patterns of connexin 43
protein during facial development in the chick embryo: Associations
with outgrowth, attachment and closure of the midfacial primordia.
Anat. Rec. 248:279-290, 1997.
- Helms, J.A.; Kim, C.H.; Hu, D.;
Minkoff, R.; Thaller, C.: and Eichele, G. Sonic hedgehog participates
in craniofacial morphogenesis and is down-regulated by teratogenic
doses of Retinoic acid. Developmental Biology 187, 25-35, 1997.
- Minkoff, R.; Rundus, V.R.; Parker,
S.B.; Hertzberg, E.L.; Laing, J.G.; and Beyer, E.C. Gap junction
proteins exhibit early and specific expression during intramembranous
bone formation in the developing chick mandible. Anat. Embryol.
190:231-241, 1994.
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