Abstracts

Keystone Symposia (2007)
Genomic Instability.  Breckenridge, CO.  Oral Presentation:  MutSalpha and UNG direct redundant pathways for repair and mutagenesis of U/G mismatches.

Environmental Mutagen Society (2006)
Annual Meeting.  Vancouver, BC.  Poster: MRE11/RAD50 participates in AID/UNG initiated pathway of Ig diversification by cleaving abasic DNA.

Environmental Mutagen Society Satellite Conference (2005)
Cell Lineages, Genetic Instability, and Human Disease. Seattle, WA.  Poster: MRE11/RAD50 participates in AID/UNG initiated pathway of Ig diversification by cleaving abasic DNA.

Environmental Mutagen Society Satellite Conference (2005)
Mismatch Repair Responses to DNA Lesions.  Corvallis, OR.  Poster: Mismatch Repair factors in recombination and maintenance of G-rich genomic regions.

Keystone Symposia (2004)
DNA Repair and Mutagenesis.  Taos, NM.  Oral Presentation: The abasic nuclease activity of MRE11/RAD50.

Gordon Research Conference (2004)
Mutagenesis Oxford, England.  Two posters presented: 1.  hMutSalpha binds and mediates synapsis of Ig switch regions.   2. MRE11/RAD50 has a conserved AP-nuclease activity.

8th Annual Joint Immunology Symposium (2003)
Amgen Inc. and University of Washington, Seattle, WA.  Poster:  MRE11/RAD50 complex and somatic hypermutation.

Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (2003)
Genetic Recombination and Chromosome Rearrangements. Snowmass, CO.  Poster:  MutSalpha binds G4 DNA.

Midwest DNA Repair Symposium (2001)
Indianapolis, IN.  Poster: 8-oxoguanine is bound and processed by the mismatch repair pathway.

65th Annual Cold Spring Harbor Symposium on Quantitative Biology (2000)
Biological responses to DNA damage.  Cold Spring Harbor, NY.  Poster: Adriamycin, actinomycin D, and nogalamycin inhibit the human mismatch repair pathway in vitro.

American Society for Microbiology (1999)
DNA Repair. Hilton Head, SC.  Poster: Adriamycin, actinomycin D, and nogalamycin block the human mismatch repair pathway in vitro