Section: Publications

Postdoctoral Position Available

Charles Sagerstrom, Ph.D.

Academic Role: Associate Professor

Faculty Appointment(s) In:
   Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology

Other Affiliation(s):
   Interdisciplinary Graduate Program

Recent Publications

C.G. Sagerström, Y. Grinblat and H. Sive. (1996).   Anteroposterior patterning in the zebrafish, Danio rerio: an explant assay reveals inductive and suppressive cell interactions.  Development.122: 1873-1883.

C.G. Sagerström and H.L. Sive. (1996).  RNA blot analysis.  In A laboratory guide toRNA: Isolation, Analysis and Synthesis.   Ed. P. Krieg. Wiley-Liss, Inc. pp 83-103.

C.G. Sagerström, B.I. Sun, and H.L. Sive. (1997). Subtractive hybridization: Past present and future. Ann. Rev. Biochem. 66:751-783.

C.G. Sagerström. (1997) Slippery slopes: Understanding gradients and asymmetries in development.   Trends in Cell Biology  7:463-465.

Y. Grinblat, M. Lane, C.G. Sagerström and H. Sive. (1998). Analysis of zebrafish development using explant culture assays. Meth. Cell Biol. 59:128-155.

N. Vlachakis, D. Ellstrom and C.G. Sagerström. (2000). A novel Pbx family member expressed during early zebrafish embryogenesis forms trimeric complexes with Meis3 and Hoxb1b. Developmental Dynamics 217:109-119.

C.G. Sagerström, B. Kao, M. Lane and H.L. Sive. (2001). Isolation and characterization of posteriorly restricted genes in the zebrafish gastrula. Developmental Dynamics 220:402-408.

N. Vlachakis, S-K. Choe and C. G. Sagerström. (2001). Meis3 synergizes with Pbx4 and Hoxb1b in promoting hindbrain fates in the zebrafish. Development 128:1299-1312.

S.-K. Choe, N. Vlachakis and C. G. Sagerström. (2002). Meis family proteins are required for hindbrain development in the zebrafish. Development 129:585-595.

L. Etheridge, P. diIorio and C. G Sagerström (2002). A zebrafish unc-45 related gene expressed during muscle development. Developmental Dynamics 224:457-460.

M. E. Lane  , A. P. Runko, N. M. Roy, and C. G. Sagerström. (2002). Dynamic expression and regulation by Fgf8 and Pou2 of the zebrafish LIM-only gene lmo4. Mechanisms of Development 119: S185-189.

K. M. Astrofsky, R. A. Bullis and C. G. Sagerström (2002). Biology and management of the zebrafish. In Laboratory Animal Medicine. 2^nd edition.  Ed. J. Fox, L. Anderson, F. Loew, F. Quimby, pp. 861-883. Academic

A. P. Runko and C. G. Sagerström. (2003). Nlz belongs to a family of zinc-finger containing repressors and controls segmental gene expression in the zebrafish hindbrain. Developmental Biology 262:254-267.

N. M. Roy and C. G. Sagerström (2004).  An early Fgf-signal required for gene expression in the zebrafish hindbrain primordium. Developmental Brain Research. 148: 27-42.

A. P. Runko and C. G. Sagerström (2004). Isolation of nlz2 and characterization of essential domains in Nlz-family proteins. Journal of Biological Chemistry 279: 11917-11925.

S. –K. Choe and C. G. Sagerström. (2004).  Paralog group 1 hox genes regulate rhombomere 5/6-expression of vhnf1, a repressor of rostral hindbrain fates, in a meis-dependent manner.  Developmental Biology  271:350-361.

M. Nakamura,  A. P. Runko and C. G. Sagerström. (2004).  A novel zinc-finger subfamily regulating embryogenesis.  Journal of Cellular Biochemistry. 93:887-895

C. G. Sagerström. (2004).   pbX marks the spot.  Developmental Cell 6: 737-738

C. G. Sagerström, L. S. Gammill, R. Veale and H. Sive. (2005).   Specification of the enveloping layer and lack of autoneuralization in zebrafish embryonic explants. Developmental Dynamics 232: 85-97.

S. –K. Choe and C. G. Sagerström. (2005). Variable meis-dependence among paralog group-1 hox genes. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications.   331:1384-1391.

Office: LRB-815, Lab 870 D-F
Phone: 508-856-8006
E-mail: Charles.Sagerstrom@umassmed.edu
Keywords: Neurobiology, Gene Expression, Developmental Biology

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