This week I found out that I was inducted into my high school district’s alumni Hall of Frame. Pretty cool!
Jason M Laramie, Jemma B Wilk, Sally L Williamson, Michael W Nagle, Jeanne C Latourelle, Jennifer E Tobin, Michael A Province, Ingrid B Borecki and Richard H Myers. Polymorphisms near EXOC4 and LRGUK on chromosome 7q32 are associated with Type 2 Diabetes and fasting glucose; The NHLBI Family Heart Study. BMC Medical Genetics 2008, 9:46. Pubmed
Wilk JB, Laramie JM, Latourelle JC, Williamson S, Nagle MW, Tobin JE, Foster CL, Eckfeldt JH, Province MA, Borecki IB, Myers RH NYD-SP18 is associated with obesity in the NHLBI Family Heart Study. Int J Obes 2008. 21 22. Pubmed
I have accepted a position at Pfizer as a Principle Scientist working as a Human Geneticist in the newly formed Biological Profiling Group at the Research Technology Center in Cambridge, MA starting December 3rd.
Haplotypes and gene expression implicate the MAPT region for Parkinson disease: The
GenePD Study
J.E. Tobin, PhD, J.C. Latourelle, MS, M.F. Lew, MD, C. Klein, MD, O. Suchowersky, MD,
H.A. Shill, MD, L.I. Golbe, MD, M.H. Mark, MD, J.H. Growdon, MD, G.F. Wooten, MD, B.A.
Racette, MD, J.S. Perlmutter, MD, R. Watts, MD, M. Guttman, MD, K.B. Baker, PhD, S.
Goldwurm, MD, G. Pezzoli, MD, C. Singer, MD, M.H. Saint-Hilaire, MD, A.E. Hendricks, BA,
S. Williamson, BS, M.W. Nagle, BA, J.B. Wilk, DSc, T. Massood, BS, J.M. Laramie, PhD, A.L.
DeStefano, PhD, I. Litvan, MD, G. Nicholson, MD, A. Corbett, MD, S. Isaacson, MD, D.J.
Burn, MD, P.F. Chinnery, MD, P.P. Pramstaller, MD, S. Sherman, MD, J. Al-hinti, MD, E.
Drasby, MD, M. Nance, MD, A.T. Moller, MD, K. Ostergaard, MD, PhD, R. Roxburgh, PhD, B.
Snow, MD, J.T. Slevin, MD, F. Cambi, MD, J.F. Gusella, PhD, R.H. Myers, PhD Neurology Pubmed
Laramie JM, Chung TP, Brownstein B, Stormo GD and Cobb JP. Transcriptional Profiles of Human Epithelial Cells in Response to Heat: Computational evidence for Novel Heat Shock Proteins. SHOCK Pubmed
In the middle of July I will begin my post-doctoral research fellowship in the Center for Human Genetic Research under Dr. Jim Gusella at the Massachusetts General Hospital and the Harvard Medical School. In addition, I will have an affiliation with the Broad Institute through Dr. Gusella’s Laboratory. Finally, I will remain as a Bioinformatics Consultant to Dr. Richard Myers at Boston University School of Medicine.
Wilk JB, Walter RE, Laramie JM, Gottlieb DJ, O’Connor GT. Framingham Heart Study genome wide association:
Results for pulmonary function measures. BMC Med Genet. (in press)
On Thursday May 31st, I successfully defended my dissertation titled, “Genetic Studies of Obesity in the NHLBI Family Heart Study“. (Picture)