Network Member Profile
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Dr Ruth Arkell
Department:
Molecular Genetics and Evolution, Research School of Biological Science
and Centre for the Molecular Genetics of Development
Organisation:
Australian National University
Address:
GPO Box 475, Canberra, ACT 2601
Telephone: 02 6125 9158, Facsimile: 02
6125 8294
Email: ruth.arkell@anu.edu.au
Web
Address
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Current Field of Study
- Mammalian Developmental Genetics
International Collaborators
- Ioannis Ragoussis, The Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Roosevelt
Drive, Oxford, UK.
- Jonathan Flint, The Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Roosevelt
Drive, Oxford, UK.
- Thomas Zwaka, Baylor College of Medicine, Department of Molecular and Cellular
Biology, Center for Cell and Gene Therapy, Houston, TX, USA.
- Kathy Millen, Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago,
Illinois, USA.
- Pat Nolan, Mammalian Genetics Unit, MRC Harwell, Oxfordshire, UK.
- Dominic Norris, Mammalian Genetics Unit, MRC Harwell, Oxfordshire, UK.
- Kate Barald, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology , University
of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
- Steve Brown, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT , USA.
Facilities
SNP detection technologies
Lab Members
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Dr Ruth Arkell
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Head of the Lab
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Dr Radiya Ali
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Postdoctoral Fellow
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| Ms Anna Chappell |
Research Assistant |
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Ms Li-Jun Ouyang
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Technical Officer
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| Ms Jane Hooper |
Technical Officer |
Recent Grant Income
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Description
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CIs
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Type of Grant
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Year
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Income p.a.
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| The embryological and molecular basis of Zic2 involvement
in holoprosencephaly |
Ruth Arkell |
NHMRC Project Grant |
2006-2008 |
200,000 |
| Zic gene function during the development of the embryonic
midline |
Ruth Arkell |
Sylvia and Charles Viertel Senior Medical Research Fellowship |
2006-2010 |
195,000 |
| ARC Special Research Centre for the Moleular Genetics of
Development |
11 |
ARC |
2007-2008 |
$1,300,000 |
Recent Publications
Goldsworthy, M., Freeman, H., Horner, E., Shimomura, K., Hough, A., Bogani, D.,
Pieles, G., Mijat, V., Arkell, R., Bhattacharya, S., Ashcroft, F. and Cox, R.The
role of the transcription factor Sox4 in insulin secretion and impaired glucose
tolerance. Diabetes, in press.
Garrick, D., Sharpe, J., Arkell, R.M., Dobbie, L., Smith, A., Wood, B., Higgs,
D., and Gibbons, R. Targeted disruption of the SNF2-like protein Atrx causes
trophoblast failure and embryonic lethality. (2006) PLoS Genet. 2(4): e58.
Bogani, D., Willoughby, C., Davies, J., Kaur, K., Mirza, G., Paudyal, A., Haines,
H., McKeone, R., Cadman, M., Pieles, G., Schneider, J.E., Bhattacharya, S.,
Hardy, A., Nolan, P.M., Tripodis, N., Depew, M.J., Chandrasekara, R., Duncan,
G., Sharpe, P.T., Greenfield, A., Denny, P., Brown, S.D.M., Ragoussis, J. and
Arkell, R. Dissecting the genetic complexity of human 6p deletion syndromes
using a region-specific, phenotype-driven mouse screen. (2005) Proc Natl Acad
Sci U S A, 102(35): 12477-12482.
Blewitt, M.E., Vickaryous, N.K., Hemley, S.J., Ashe, A., Bruxner, T.J., Preis,
J.I., Arkell, R. and Whitelaw, E. An ENU screen for genes involved in variegation
in the mouse. (2005) Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 102(21):7629-34.
Brown, L., Paraso, M., Arkell, R. and Brown, S. In vitro analysis of partial
loss-of-function ZIC2 mutations in holoprosencephaly: alanine tract expansion
modulates DNA binding and transactivation. (2005) Hum. Mol. Genet.14(3):411-20.
Bogani, D., Warr, N., Elms, P., Davies, J., Tymowska-Lalanne, Z., Goldsworthy,
M., Cox, R.D., Keays, D.A., Flint, J., Wilson, V., Nolan, P. and Arkell, R.
New semidominant mutations that affect mouse development. (2004) Genesis 40(2):109-117.
Mallon, A-M., Wilming, L., Weekes, J., Gilbert, J.G.R., Ashurst, J., Peyrefitte,
L., Matthews, L., Cadman, M., McKeone, R., Sellick, C., Arkell, R., Botcherby,
M.R.M., Strivens, M.A., Campbell, R.D., Gregory, S., Denny, P., Hancock, J.M.,
Rogers, J. and Brown, S.D.M. Organization and evolution of a gene-rich region
of the mouse genome: a 12.7 Mb region deleted in the Del(13)Svea36H mouse. (2004)
Genome Research 14(10):1888-1901.
Elms, P., Scurry, A., Davies, J., Willoughby, C., Hacker, T., Bogani, D. and
Arkell, R. Overlapping and distinct expression domains of Zic2 and Zic3 during
mouse gastrulation. (2004) Gene Expr. Patterns 4(5):505-511.
Elms, P., Siggers, P., Napper, D., Greenfield, A. and Arkell, R. Zic2 is required
for neural crest formation and hindbrain patterning during mouse development.
(2003) Dev. Biol. 264:391-406.
Curtin, J.A., Quint, E., Tsipouri, V., Arkell, R.M., Cattanach, B., Copp, A.J.,
Henderson, D.J., Spurr, N., Stanier, P., Fisher, E.M., Nolan, P.M., Steel, K.P.,
Brown, S.D., Gray, I.C. and Murdoch, J.N. Mutation of Celsr1 disrupts planar
polarity of inner ear hair cells and causes severe neural tube defects in the
mouse. (2003) Curr. Biol. 13(13):1129-1133.
Murdoch, J.N., Henderson, D.J., Doudney, K., Gaston-Massuet, C., Phillips,
H.M., Paternotte, C., Arkell, R., Stanier, P. and Copp, AJ. Disruption of scribble
(Scrb1) causes severe neural tube defects in the circletail mouse. (2003) Hum.
Mol. Genet. 12(2):87-98.
Arkell, R.M., Cadman, M., Marsland, T., Southwell, A., Thaung, C., Davies,
J.R., Clay, T., Beechey, C., Evans, E.P., Strivens, M.A., Brown, S.D.M. and
Denny, P. Genetic, physical and phenotypic characterisation of the Del(13)Svea36H
mouse mutant. (2001) Mammalian Genome 12:687-694.
Grimmond, S., Larder, R., Van Hateren, N., Siggers, P., Morse, S., Thacker,
T., Arkell, R. and Greenfield, A. Expression of a novel mammalian EGF-related
gene during mouse neural development. (2001) Mech. Dev. 102(1-2):209-211.
Episkopou, V., Swan, D., Timmons, P., Walsh, J., Andrew, R. and Arkell, R.
Induction of the mammalian node requires Arkadia function in the extraembryonic
lineages. (2001) Nature 410:825-30.
Grimmond, S., Larder, R., Van Hateren, N., Siggers, P., Hulsebos, T.J., Arkell,
R. and Greenfield, A. Cloning, mapping, and expression analysis of a gene encoding
a novel mammalian EGF-related protein (SCUBE1). (2000) Genomics 70(1):74-81.
Grimmond, S., Van Hateren, N., Siggers, P., Arkell, R., Larder, R., Soares,
MB., de Fatima Bonaldo, M., Smith, L., Tymowska-Lalanne, Z., Wells, C. and Greenfield,
A. Sexually dimorphic expression of protease nexin-1 and Vanin-1 in the developing
mouse gonad prior to overt differentiation suggests a role in mammalian sexual
development. (2000) Hum. Mol. Genet. 9(10):1553-1560.
Nolan, P.M., Peters, J., Strivens, M., Rogers, D., Hagan, J., Spurr, N., Gray,
I.C., Vizor, L., Brooker, D., Whitehill, E., Washbourne, R., Hough, T., Greenaway,
S., Hewitt, M., Liu, X., McCormack, S., Pickford, K., Selley, R., Wells, C.,
Tymowska-Lalanne, Z., Roby, P., Glenister, P., Thornton, C., Thaung, C., Stevenson,
J-A., Arkell, R., Mburu, P., Hardisty, R., Kiernan, A., Erven, A., Steel, K.P.,
Voegeling, S., Guenet, J-L., Nickols, C., Sadri, R., Naase, M., Isaacs, A.,
Davies, K., Browne, M., Fisher, E.M.C., Martin, J., Rastan, S., Brown, S.D.M.
and Hunter, J. A systematic genome-wide phenotype-driven mutagenesis programme
for gene function studies in the mouse (2000) Nature Genetics 25(4):440-443.
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