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Network Member Profile

Dr Eldon Ball

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

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

Dr Ruth Arkell

Head of the Lab

Dr Radiya Ali

Postdoctoral Fellow

Ms Anna Chappell Research Assistant

Ms Li-Jun Ouyang

Technical Officer

Ms Jane Hooper Technical Officer

 

Recent Grant Income

Description

CIs

Type of Grant

Year

Income p.a.

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.