Faculty Member

Prescott L. Deininger, Ph.D. Professor and Zimmerman Chair, Associate Director, Tulane Cancer Center Environmental Health Sciences, SL29 Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine 1430 Tulane Ave., New Orleans, LA 70112 Phone: 504-988-6385 e-mail: pdeinin@tulane.edu The Deininger Laboratory

 

INSTITUTION AND LOCATION	DEGREE	YEAR(s)	FIELD OF STUDY
Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, CA	A.B.	1973	Chemistry
Univ. of California, Davis, CA	Ph.D.	1978	Biophysical Chemistry
Univ. of California, San Diego, CA	Postdoc	1980	Molecular Genetics
MRC Lab. of Mol. Biol., Cambridge, U.K.	Postdoc	1981	Molecular Genetics

7-98 ­ present Zimmerman Chair and Director of Basic Research Programs, Tulane Cancer Center.

7-98 ­ present Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, Tulane School of Public Health, Tulane Medical Center

8-89 - present Director, Lab. of Molecular Genetics, Ochsner Medical Foundation.

11-81 ­ 06-98 Asst., Assoc. and Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, L.S.U. Medical Center

09-89 - 09-90 Visiting Assoc. Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Harvard Medical

10-80 - 10-81 NATO postdoctoral fellow with Dr. Frederic Sanger.

03-78 - 10-80 NIH postdoctoral trainee with Dr. Theodore Friedmann.

06-74 - 03-78 Graduate research assistant with Dr. Carl Schmid.

 

Selected Honors, Awards and Memberships:

Executive Editor for Analytical Biochemistry 1990-

Member of the Editorial Board for Analytical Biochemistry 1983-1990.

Member of the Editorial Board for DNA Sequence 1989-

Member of the Editorial Board for Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 19970

Member of NIH Reviewer Reserve 1995-1999.

Member of the Calif. Mol. Biol. of Breast Cancer Study Section, 1996.

Member of the DOD Breast Cancer Study Section, 1996-98.

Member of NIH Molecular Biology Study Section, 1991-1995., Reviewer Reserve, 1996-1999.

Ad hoc member of Special Human Genome Study Section and Mol. Biol. Study Section, 1989,1990

Ad hoc member of ACS Molecular Biology Study Section, 1991.

American Cancer Society Scholar in Dr. Charles Stiles lab. 1988-89.

Member of AACR, ASBMB, ASHG, AAAS, ASM.

RECOMMENDED RECENT PUBLICATIONS (out of 133 total)

1. M.R. Shen, J. Brosius, and P. Deininger (1997) BC1 RNA, the transcript from a master gene for ID element amplification, is able to prime its own reverse transcription. Nucleic Acids Res. 25, 1641-1648.
   
   
2. T. Shaikh, A. Roy, J. Kim, M. Batzer and P. Deininger (1997) cDNAs Derived from Primary and Small Cytoplasmic Alu (scAlu) Transcripts. J. Mol. Biol. 271, 222-234.
   
   
3. Limprasert, P., N. Nouri, C Nopparatana,, P Deininger,.BJB Keats (1997) Comparative Studies of the CAG repeats in the Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 1 (SCA1) Gene. Am. J. Med. Gen. 74, 488-493.
   
   
4. DeAngelis M. Doucet J, Drury S, Sherry S, Robichaux M, Den Z, Pelias M, Ditta G, Keats B, Deininger P, Batzer M. 1998. Assembly of a high-resolution map of the Acadian Usher Syndrome region and localization of the nuclear EF-hand acidic gene. Biochim Biophys Acta, 1407, 81-91.
   
   
5. Parker, M, M. Larroque, J. Campbell, R. Bobbin and P. Deininger (1998) Novel variant of the P2X2 ATP receptor from the guinea pig organ of Corti. Hearing Res. 121, 62-70.
   
   
6. Vinas, A. M., S. S. Drury, M. M. DeAngelis, Z. Den, J. M. Huang, C. I. Berlin, J. D. Hunt, M. A. Batzer, P. L. Deininger and B. J. B. Keats. (1999) The mouse deafness locus (dn) is associated with an inversion on Chromosome 19. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1407, 257-262.
   
   
7. Roy, A.M., M. Carroll, D.H. Kass, Sun, MA. Batzer, P.L. Deininger (1999) Recently integrated human Alu repeats: Finding needles in the haystack. Genetica 107, 149-61.
8. Roy, A.M., M.L. Carroll, S.V. Nguyen, A.-H. Salem, M. Oldridge, A.O.M. Wilkie, M.A. Batzer, and P. L. Deininger (2000) Potential gene conversion and source gene(s) for recently integrated Alu elements. Genome Research 10, 1485-1495
9. Roy, A.M, N.C. West, A. Rao, P. Adhikari, C. Aleman, A.P. Barnes, P.L. Deininger (2000) Upstream flanking sequences and transcription of SINEs. J Mol Biol. 302, 17-25.
10. Aleman, C., Roy-Engel, A., T. Shaikh and P. Deininger (2000) Cis-acting influences on Alu RNA levels. Nucleic Acids Res. 28, 4755-4761.

RECOMMENDED BOOK CHAPTERS and REVIEWS

1. P. Deininger and A. Roy-Engel (2001) Mobile elements in animal and plant genomes. In Mobile DNA II. Craig, N.L., Craigie, R., Gellert, M., and Lambowitz, A. Eds ASM Press. (in press.)
2. Deininger, P. and Batzer, M. (1999) Alu repeats and human disease. Mol Gen and Metab 67, 183-193.
3. P. Deininger, H. Tiedge, J. Kim and J. Brosius (1996) Evolution, expression, and possible function of a master gene for amplification of an interspersed repeated DNA family in rodents. Progress in Nucleic Acid Res. and Mol. Biol. vol. 52, 67-87.
4. P. Deininger and M. Batzer. (1995) SINE master genes and population biology. The Impact of Short, Interspersed Elements (SINEs) on the Host Genome. (edited by R. Maraia) R.G. Landes Company, Austin, TX pp43-60.
5. P. Deininger and M. A. Batzer (1993) Evolution of Retroposons. in Evolutionary Biology, (ed. by M.K. Hecht et al.) Plenum Publishing, NY, NY, vol 27, 157-196.