Melissa Hayden: 2001-2006 (IBMS; Genetics & Molecular Biology)
Current position Director, Molecular Genetics and Genomics lab, Lab Corp
Clinical Cytogenetics Fellow, UNC-CH School of Medicine
Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr. Akira Chiba, The University of Miami-Coral Gables
Awarded: Postdoctoral fellowship from: The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis
Publications from Peifer lab
- Hayden, M.A., Akong, K., and Peifer, M. (2007). Novel roles for APC family members and Wingless/Wnt signaling during Drosophila brain development. Developmental Biology 305, 358-376.
- McCartney BM, Price MH, Webb RL, Hayden MA, Holot LM, Zhou M, Bejsovec A, Peifer M. (2006). Testing hypotheses for the functions of APC family proteins using null and truncation alleles in Drosophila. Development 133:2407-18
- Akong, K., Grevengoed, E.E., Price, M.H., McCartney, B.M., Hayden, M.A., DeNofrio, J.C., and Peifer, M. (2002). Drosophila APC2 and APC1 play overlapping roles in Wingless signaling in the embryo and imaginal discs. Developmental Biology 250, 91-100.