Matt Abbott, PhD Instructor, Biology		Des Moines Area Community College http://www.dmacc.edu
Office 118A Newton Campus		mabbott1@dmacc.edu 641.791.1775 641.791.1728 (fax)
BIO 733 Health Science Anatomy	BIO 734 Health Science Physiology	ENV 115 Environmental Science
ENV 116 Environmental Science Lab	BIO 156 Human Biology

EDUCATION

Doctor of Philosophy in Genetics, Iowa State University, 2004

Bachelor of Arts in Biology, Grinnell College, 1996

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

Abbott, M.A., M. Joksimovic, and C.K. Tuggle. 2005. Ectopic HOXA5 expression results in abnormal differentiation, migration and p53-independent cell death of superficial dorsal horn neurons. Developmental Brain Research 159: 87-97.

Krieger, K.E., M.A. Abbott, M. Joksimovic, P.A. Lueth, I.M. Sonea, L. Jeannotte, and C.K. Tuggle. 2004. Transgenic mice ectopically expressing HOXA5 in the dorsal spinal cord show structural defects of the cervical spinal cord along with sensory and motor defects of

the forelimb. Developmental Brain Research 150: 125-139.

Hu, Z.L., M.A. Abbott, M. Yerle, and M.F. Rothschild. 1998. The progesterone receptor (PGR) gene maps to porcine chromosome 9p13-p11 by a rodent-porcine somatic cell hybrid panel. Journal of Animal Science 76: 2749-2750.

Poster Presentations

Abbott, M.A., M. Joksimovic, K. Krieger, P. Lueth, L. Jeannotte, and C.K. Tuggle. 2003. Role of Hoxa5 in spinal cord development. SDB Midwest Meeting, Stowers Institute, Kansas City, MO.

Abbott, M.A., K. Krieger, L. Bendickson, M. Nilsen-Hamilton, and C.K. Tuggle. 2000. Developing inducible Hoxa5 gene expression in transgenic mice. Mouse Molecular Genetics Meeting, Cold Spring Harbor Labs, Cold Spring Harbor, NY.

1999: Creating transgenic mice

OTHER INTERESTS

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