Dr. Bernice Lin

Microbiologist Forest Products Laboratory University of Wisconsin - Madison berlin@oncology.wisc.edu Graduate Education Christopher Bradfield, Advisor at U.W. Madison 1999-2005

I am currently working at the USDA Forest Products Laboratory.  My work involves the overexpression of genes in the yeast Pichia stipitis.  One goal is to to increase the ability of these yeast to ferment ethanol.  These yeast in particular are able to use wood by-products as an energy source to ferment ethanol, thereby creating a more efficient and renewable resource as an alternative to fossil fuels.  Our second goal is to engineer these yeast to increase their production of the sugar Xylitol.  This product is a good alternative sugar source for diabetics although the current methods of its production make it too expensive to be commonly used.

Recent Publications:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=search&term=Lin%2Bbc

• Bunger MK, Moran SM, Glover E, Thomae TL, Lahvis GP, Lin BC, and Bradfield CA. (2003). Resistance to 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin toxicity and abnormal liver development in mice carrying a mutation in the nuclear localization sequence of the aryl hydrocarbon receptor. J Biol Chem. 278:17767-1774. PDF PMID 12621046
  
  
• Bresnick EH, Chu J, Christensen H, Lin B, and Norton J. (2000). Linking notch signaling, chromatin remodeling, and T-cell leukemogenesis. J Cell Biochem. 35:46-53. PMID 11389531

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