I am a UC graduate (BSc, concentration zoology with minor in chemistry). Worked under the supervision of Dr. C Logan at the UC Medical Research Facility under the Hotckiss Brain Institute (Genes & Development Research Group and Neuroscience research group) just under two years.
Awarded Canadian Institutes of Health Research government scholarship for 2006 summer term and made member of the International Society for Developmental Neuroscience August 2006.
Publications:
Mak, K. W., K. Tumova, D. Liu and C.C. Logan.
Mash-1 functions in a dose-dependant
manner to promote neurogenesis of Tlx-1+
first-order relay sensory neurons in the developing chick
hindbrain. in International Chick Meeting. 2007. Barcelona, Spain.
Mak, K.W., K. Tumova, D. Liu and C.C. Logan. Cash1 is Involved in
Specifying both the Identity and Number of First-order Relay Sensory Neurons in
the Developing Chick Hindbrain. in 16th
Biennial Meeting of the International Society for Developmental Neuroscience.
2006. Banff, AB.
Gauthier, L.R., K. Tumova, K.W. Mak, C.C. Logan and
S.M. Robbins. Role of Ephrin B1 reverse signalling in development of the chick
neural tube. in 16th
Biennial Meeting of the International Society for Developmental Neuroscience.
2006. Banff, AB.
University of Calgary’s Faculty of Medicine:
Department of Cell Biology & Anatomy 2006 Calendar. .
Cover, February (E3 chick, immunohistochemistry protocol = phospho-histone 3 (HH3)), June (DNA injections (pEFX vector with Mash-1 and eGFP), immunohistochemistry protocol = HH3).
Secured first authorship for ongoing manuscript regarding research of Mammalian Acute-Scute Homolog - 1 (Mash-1) gene and its implied role in the hindbrain.
Secured secondary joint authorship for ongoing research regarding ephrin protein B1 and its implied role in the spinal cord and cancer.
Trained and experienced to: compile and analyze data, vibratome sectioning of chick embryos, take high resolution microscopic pictures of neural tube sections, run immunohistochemistry and in-situ hybridization protocols, harvest electroporated chick embryos and inject/electroporate neural tube of chick embryos.
Presented findings at 4th and 5th annual Neuroscience Research Group symposiums in addition to 14th and 15th annual Genes and Development Research Group symposiums. Latest presentation involved the biennial International Society of Developmental Neuroscience meeting.
