Post-doctoral position with Dr. Melissa Thomas Department of Endocrinology Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA gennymager@hotmail.com Graduate Education Dr. John Svaren, Advisor at UW-Madison 2002-2007

Info:

Gennifer begins her postdoctoral fellowship on September 1st with Dr.Melissa Thomas at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Her field of study will be Molecular and Endocrinology Diabetes.

Research Interest:

Mechanism and Targets of NAB corepressor activity in regulation of peripheral nerve myelination.

Recent Publications:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=search&term=mager%2BgM

• Mager GM, Ward RM, Srinivasan R, Jang SW, Wrabetz L, and Svaren J. (2008). Active gene repression by the EGR2/NAB complex during peripheral nerve myelination. J. Biol Chem. 283:18187-18197
  
  
• Jones EA, Jang SW, Mager GM, Chang LW, Srinivasan R, Gokey NG, Ward RM, Nagarajan R, and Svaren J. (2007). Interactions of Sox10 and Egr2 in myelin gene regulation. Neuron Glia Biology. 3:377-387
  
  
• Srinivasan R, Mager GM, Ward RM, Mayer J, and Svaren J. (2006). NAB2 represses transcription by interacting with the CHD4 subunit of the nucleosome remodeling and deacetylase (NuRD) complex. J Biol Chem. 281:15129-15137. PDF PMID 16574654
  
  
• Leblanc SE, Srinivasan R, Ferri C, Mager GM, Gillian-Daniel AL, Wrabetz L, and Svaren J. (2005). Regulation of cholesterol/lipid biosynthetic genes by Egr2/Krox20 during peripheral nerve myelination. J Neurochem. 93:737-748. PDF PMID 15836632