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ROBERT SLADEK


 

Assistant Professor – Department of Medicine, Division of Experimental Medicine


Contact information:

Telephone: (514) 398-5458
e-mail address: robert.sladek@mcgill.ca
website: http://www.mcgill.ca/endocrinology/facultydir/sladek_robert/

 

Projects for Thesis Supervision:

1. Identifying and characterizing gene networks involved in altering diabetes risk.

2. Developing new analytic approaches to identify transcription networks using gene expression and ChIP-seq data.

3. Applying mouse models to study common complex disease such as diabetes and infectious diseases.


Recent Publications:

Camateros, P., Marino, R., Fortin, A., Martin, J.G., Skamene, E., Sladek, R. and Radzioch, D. (2010)
Identification of novel chromosomal regions associated with airway hyperresponsiveness in recombinant congenic strains of mice. Mamm. Genome 21: 28-38.

Rung J, et al. (2009)
Genetic variant near IRS1 is associated with type 2 diabetes, insulin resistance and hyperinsulinemia. Nat. Genet. 41: 1110-1115.

Fulton, D.L., Sundararajan, S., Badis, G., Hughes, T.R., Wasserman, W.W., Roach, J.C. and Sladek, R. (2009)
TFCat: the curated catalog of mouse and human transcription factors. Genome Biol. 10: R29.