Associate Professor
Laboratory Members
Postdoctoral Fellows
None at this time
Research Assistants
Derek Silvius
Education
McGill University, BS, 1990, Biology
University of British Columbia, PhD, 1996, Genetics
Positions
1995-2001 Postdoctoral Fellow. Dr. Gregory Barsh, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
2001-2009 Assistant Professor. Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cornell University (Robert Hovey Udall Assistant Professor) Ithaca, NY
2009-present Associate Professor. McLaughlin Research Institute, Great Falls, MT
Major Areas of Research
The genetic and molecular basis of neurodegeneration, neuropathies and pigmentation.
 Gray tremor mouse |
 Neurodegeneration in gray tremor mouse |
Current Publications
Gunn, TM (2011) Profile: Greg Barsh. Pigment Cell Melanoma Res 24(2):377.
Jung, SW, Silvius, D, Nolan, KA, Borchert, GL, Millet, YH, Phang, JM and Gunn, TM (2011) Developmental cardiac hypertrophy in a mouse model of prolidase deficiency. Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol., 91(4):204-17. PMID: 21472842
Friedenberg, SG, Zhu, L, Zhang, Z, Foels, WB, Schweitzer, PA, Wang, W, Fisher, PJ, Dykes, NL, Corey, E, Vernier-Singer, M, Jung, SW, Sheng, X, Hunter, LS, McDonough, SP, Lust, G, Bliss, SP, Krotscheck, U, Gunn, TM and Todhunter, RJ (2011) A Fibrillin-2 haplotype associated with canine hip dysplasia and incipient osteoarthritis. Am J Vet Res 72(4):530-40. PMID: 21453155
Brisban, A, Cruickshank, J, Moïse, NS, Gunn, T, Milano, A, Bustamante, CD and Mezey, JG (2011) Fast, Exact Linkage Analysis for Categorical Traits on Arbitrary Pedigree Designs. Genet Epidemiol, 35(5):371-80. PMID: 21520271
Jung, SW, Silvius, D, Nolan, KA, Borchert, GL, Millet, YH, Phang, JM and Gunn, TM (2011) Developmental cardiac hypertrophy in a mouse model of prolidase deficiency. Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol., 91(4):204-17 .PMID: 21472842.
Gunn, TM (2011) Profile: Greg Barsh. Pigment Cell Melanoma Res., 24(2):377. PMID: 21392367.
Friedenberg, SG, Zhu, L, Zhang, Z, Foels, WB, Schweitzer, PA, Wang, W, Fisher, PJ, Dykes, NL, Corey, E, Vernier-Singer, M, Jung, SW, Sheng, X, Hunter, LS, McDonough, SP, Lust, G, Bliss, SP, Krotscheck, U, Gunn, TM and Todhunter, RJ (2011) A Fibrillin-2 haplotype associated with canine hip dysplasia and incipient osteoarthritis. Am J Vet Res 72(4):530-40. PMID: 21453155.
Brisban, A, Cruickshank, J, Moïse, NS, Gunn, TM, Milano, A, Bustamante, CD and Mezey, JG (2011) Fast, Exact Linkage Analysis for Categorical Traits on Arbitrary Pedigree Designs. Genet Epidemiol, 35(5):371-80. PMID: 21520271.
Walker, WP and Gunn, TM (2010) Piecing together the pigment-type switching puzzle. Pigment Cell Melanoma Res., 23(1):4-6. PMID: 20042018.
Walker, WP and Gunn, TM (2010) Shades of meaning: the pigment-type switching system as a tool for discovery. Pigment Cell Melanoma Res., 23(4):485-495. PMID: 20465596.
Jiao, J*, Sun, K*, Walker, WP, Bagher, P, Cota, CD and Gunn, TM (2009) Abnormal regulation of TSG101 in mice with spongiform neurodegeneration.
Biochim Biophys Acta., 1792(10):1027-35. PMID: 19703557.
Jiao, J, Kim, HY, Liu, RR, Hogan, CA, Sun, K, Tam, LM and Gunn, TM (2009) Transgenic analysis of the physiological functions of Mahogunin Ring Finger-1 isoforms. Genesis 47:524-534. PMID: 19422019.
Cota, CD, Liu, R, Sumberac, T, Vencato, D, Millet, Y, Jung, SW and Gunn, TM (2008) Genetic and phenotypic studies of the dark-like mutant mouse. Genesis 46(10):562-573. PMID: 18821597.
Walker, WP*, Aradhya, S*, Hu, C-L, Shen, S, Zhang, W, Azarani, A, Lu, X-Y, Barsh, GS and Gunn, TM (2007) Genetic analysis of Attractin homologs. Genesis 45:744-756. PMID: 18064672.
Sun, K, Johnson, BS and Gunn, TM (2007) Mitochondrial dysfunction precedes neurodegeneration in Mahogunin (Mgrn1) mutant mice. Neurobiology of Aging 28(12):1840-1852. PMID: 17720281.
Azouz, A, Gunn, TM and Duke-Cohan, JS (2007) Juvenile-onset loss of lipid-raft domains in attractin-deficient mice. Exp. Cell Res. 313:761-771. PMID: 17196964.
