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Press Releases and News

Press Releases on Dr. Muller’s Cancer Research Program can be found here:
Nature Reviews Genetics
UCF Impact
Medical News
Neighbors
UCF NEWS
Innovations Report
Eureka Alert
Bioblogs
Chemistry World
Innovative Studies
Korea Times
 

Presentations/Seminars

Invited Talk at the AACR Special Conference on The Role of Telomeres and Telomerase in Cancer Research. San Francisco, CA.   “Makorin-1 is a Telomerase Specific E3 Ubiquitin Ligase”  December 8, 2007.

Invited Seminar at MD Anderson Cancer Center Orlando, FL..  “A Novel Blood Test for Cancer Screening”  Jan 8, 2008.

Invited Seminar at FIT, Florida. “Mechanisms of Gene Silencing Following DNA Repair”  Feb 21, 2008.

Invited Seminar MD Anderson Cancer Research Interest Group, Orlando Florida. “When Genes Go Silent due to DNA Damage:  A New Mechanism for Malignant Transformation”   Sept. 1, 2009

Invited Seminar at Burnham Institute for Medical Research. “Gene Silencing Following Homologous Recombination and Repair:  Translational Findings. Sept 10, 2009

Symposium Talk.  MD Anderson Cancer Center Symposium on Personalized Cancer Treatment. “DNA Damage and Tumor Suppressor Gene Silencing:  Lessons for Translational Medicine”  Oct. 29, 2009.

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Interested in applying for graduate studies in Dr. Muller’s laboratory?  We have an exciting array of projects (research projects).  For more information regarding UCF and the application process, prospective graduate students may go to this link:
www.graduate.ucf.edu. You may also contact us directly at  biomoldoc@mail.ucf.edu

Dr. Mark T. Muller, Ph.D.
Professor of Molecular Biology and Microbiology
University of Central Florida
College of Medicine
Biomolecular Research Annex
12722 Research Parkway
Orlando, FL 32826-3227

Office:   407-882-2268
Lab:      407-882-2267
Fax:      407-384-2062
 mtmuller@mail.ucf.edu

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Welcome to the home page for the Dr. Mark Muller’s Laboratory of Cancer Research at the University of Central Florida in beautiful Orlando, Florida.  The laboratory is an established group of researchers working on the molecular biology of cancer and gene regulation.  Specific research focus areas include studies on DNA topoisomerases, gene silencing and telomerase regulation. For details go to research

 

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Muller Lab Research News:

The picture above was taken at a celebration dinner for Bongyong Lee. Congratulations to Dr. Bongyong Lee who successfully defended his Ph.D. Dissertation on Oct. 5, 2009.  Dr. Lee is seated at the bottom right of the picture.

 Read about it here

Dr. Muller was recently quoted in The Scientist regarding the Nobel Prize in Medicine for this year to E. Blackburn, C. Greider and J. Szostak for their work on  Telomeres.  http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/56039/

Our most recent paper is here: PDF

 

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Current Lab Members:
Jose Salvatico, Graduate Student
Gun Lee, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow
Joo Hee Kim, M.Sc. Senior Technician
Bongyong Lee, Graduate Student
Wanvipa Ruangpradit, Undergraduate Researcher
Mark T. Muller, Lab Chief
Rhea Manjooran, Ph.D. Graduate Student
Vidusha Cyril, Graduate Student