Asieh received an Aspire grant

Asieh Naderi received a grant from USC for her project entitled "Evaluation of the effects of bonding history in lung cancer cells by using monogamous rodents". Congratulations Asieh!

Michael Keller received an award at Discover USC

Congratulations to Michael for receiving an award for excellence and outstanding achievement for his presentation at Discover USC 2021.

His presentation was entitled Polymorphisms in Unfolded Protein Response Genes and was authored by Michael Keller, Youwen Zhang, Vimala Kaza, Ioulia Chatzistamou and Hippokratis Kiaris

Methylation Preprints

Two preprints on DNA methylation were posted in bioRxiv. The first involves several different species and includes Peromyscus while the second is on Peromyscus exclusively

Amin Haghani, Ake T Lu, Caesar Z Li, Todd R Robeck, Katherine Belov, Charles E Breeze, Robert T Brooke, Shannon Clarke, Chris G Faulkes, Zhe Fei, Steven H Ferguson, Carrie J Finno, Vadim N Gladyshev, Vera Gorbunova, Rodolfo G Goya, Andrew N Hogan, Carolyn J Hogg, Timothy A Hore, Hippokratis Kiaris, Pawel Kordowitzki, Gareth Banks, William R Koski, Khyobeni Mozhui, Asieh Naderi, Elaine A Ostrander, Kim M Parsons, Jocelyn Plassais, Jooke Robbins, Karen E Sears, Andrei Seluanov, Karen J Steinman, Balazs Szladovits, Michael J Thompson, Diego Villar, Nan Wang, Gerald S Wilkinson, Brent G

Young, Joshua Zhang, Joseph A Zoller, Jason Ernst, X. W Yang, Ken Raj, Steve Horvath. DNA Methylation Networks Underlying Mammalian Traits. bioRxiv 2021 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.03.16.435708v1

Horvath S, Haghani A, Zoller JA, Naderi A, Soltanmohammadi E, Farmaki E, Kaza V, Chatzistamou I, Kiaris H.

Methylation studies in Peromyscus: aging, altitude adaptation, and monogamy. bioRxiv 2021 10.1101/2021.03.15.435544

https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.03.15.435544