Andrew Pollock - Graduate Student / Scrabble Champion
I'm Andrew and I joined the lab during the summer of 2007 as a 2nd year Ph.D. student from the WCGSMS BCMB program. I got my undergraduate degree from Wesleyan University in CT, and was a Research Technician for 2½ years with Lee Niswander at SKI and the University of Colorado. I'm interested in a general sense in complexity and networks, and I've chosen to look at this in spatial and temporal control of gene networks in the mammalian cortex by studying microRNA function in the developing mouse cortex, and also genes involved in the generation of asymmetry and specification of precise neural areas in the developing human brain. Outside of the lab, I've thru-hiked the Appalachian Trail, and still try to get outside as often as possible.
Publications:
Zohn IE, De Domenico I, Pollock A, Ward DM, Goodman JF, Liang X, Sanchez AJ, Niswander L, Kaplan J. The flatiron mutation in mouse ferroportin acts as a dominant negative to cause ferroportin disease. Blood.2007 Feb 8.
Contact info:
ANP2016 at med.cornell.edu