Curriculum vitae: Heather Burkin

• Graduate Student in the Reproductive Biology Training Program, University of Illinois

• Grade Point Average: 4.00

• B.A. 1994 University of Colorado at Boulder

• Major: Environmental, Population, and Organismic Biology

• University of Illinois Reproductive Biology Training Fellowship (1998-present)

• Alpha Epsilon Delta Premedical Honor Society (1993)

• American Cancer Society Student Cancer Research Fellowship (1992)

• Alpha Chi Omega Outstanding Sophomore (1991)

• Kittredge Honors Program (1989-1990)

• 1997-present: Graduate Student, Department of Animal Sciences, University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois

• 1996-1997: Science Technician, AgResearch, Department of Biochemistry, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

• 1995-1996: Visiting Student Researcher, Department of Pathology, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England

• 1992-1995: Researcher, Eleanor Roosevelt Institute for Cancer Research, Denver, Colorado

• 1992: Student Cancer Research Fellow, Eleanor Roosevelt Institute for Cancer Research, Denver, Colorado

• Burkin, D.J., Broad, T.E., Lambeth, M.R., Burkin, H.R., and Jones, C. (1998) New gene assignmants using a complete, characterized sheep-hamster somatic cell hybrid panel. Animal Genetics 29: 48-54

• Burkin, H.R., Broad, T.E., Furia, A. (1998) The ovine pancreatic, brain, and seminal ribonuclease genes are assigned to sheep chromosome 7. Mammalian Genome 9: 264-266

• Huttner, K.M., Lambeth, M.R., Burkin, H.R., Burkin, D.J., and Broad, T.E. (1998) Localization and genomic organization of sheep antimicrobial peptide genes. Gene 206: 85-91

• Burkin, H.R., Burkin D.J., Davey, P.M., Griffin, D.K., and Affara, N.A. (1997) Mapping, sequence, and expression analysis of the human fertilin beta gene. Genomics 40: 190-191

• Jones, M.H., Furlong, R.A., Burkin, H.R., Chalmers, J., Brown, G.M., Khwaja, O., and Affara, N.A. (1996) The drosophila developmental gene Fat Facets has a human homologue which escapes X-inactivation and has related sequences on Yq11.2. Human Molecular Genetics 11: 1695-1701

• Burkin, D.J., Jones, C., Burkin, H.R., McGrew, J.A., and Broad, T.E. (1996) Sheep CENP-B and CENP-C show a high degree of sequence similarity and conserved synteny to human homologues. Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics 74: 86-89

• Tassone, F., Xu, H., Burkin, H., Weismann, S., and Gardiner, K. (1995) cDNA selection from 10 Mb of chromosome 21 DNA- efficiency in transcriptional mapping and reflections of genome organization. Human Molecular Genetics 4: 1509-1518

• McEwan, J.C., Gerard, E.M., Jopson, N.B., Nicoll, G.B., Greer, G.J., Dodds, K.G., Bain, W.E., Burkin, H.R., Lord, E.A., and Broad, T.E. (1998) Localization of a QTL for rib eye muscling on OAR18. 26th International Conference of Animal Genetics, Auckland, New Zealand.

• Lord, E.A., Gerard, E.M., Dodds, K.G., McEwan, J.C., Burkin, H.R., Maddox, J.F., Beh, K.H., Crawford, A.M., Freking, B.A., Cockett, N.E., Broad, T.E. (1998) Towards a high resolution genetic linkage map of sheep chromosome 18. 26th International Conference of Animal Genetics, Auckland, New Zealand.

• Tassone, F., Xu, H., Wade, H., Weissman, S. and Gardiner, K. (1994) High density transcriptional mapping of chromosome 21 by hybridization selection. American Journal of Human Genetics 55: 1592

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