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Dorota Szumska-Bilska
Post-doctoral Fellow
My research focuses on the transcriptional regulation of genes crucial for the development of mammalian vascular system.
I have many years of experience in mouse embryogenesis. In the De Val lab, my work includes generating and analysing mouse models of normal and pathological vascular specification, growth and homeostasis. In particular, I am developing a pipeline for imaging and analysing our enhancer:reporter transgenic embryos on a variety of different mutant backgrounds using High Resolution Episcopic Microscopy (HREM).
Recent publications
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Pcsk5 is required in the early cranio-cardiac mesoderm for heart development
Journal article
Szumska D. et al, (2017), BMC Developmental Biology, 17
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A staging system for correct phenotype interpretation of mouse embryos harvested on embryonic day 14 (E14.5)
Journal article
Geyer SH. et al, (2017), Journal of Anatomy, 230, 710 - 719
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ASPP2 deficiency causes features of 1q41q42 microdeletion syndrome
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Zak J. et al, (2016), Cell Death & Differentiation, 23, 1973 - 1984
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Highly variable penetrance of abnormal phenotypes in embryonic lethal knockout mice
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Wilson R. et al, (2016), Wellcome Open Research, 1, 1 - 1
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Deciphering the mechanisms of developmental disorders: phenotype analysis of embryos from mutant mouse lines
Journal article
Wilson R. et al, (2016), Nucleic Acids Research, 44, D855 - D861