Jennifer Plank

Graduate Student

Phone: 615-322-4378
Fax: 615-343-2173
Email: jennifer.plank@vanderbilt.edu

I’m originally from a suburb outside of Pittsburgh, PA. I got my bachelor’s degree at Carnegie Mellon University in May of 2006 in Biological Sciences, after a brief stint as a Chemical Engineering major. While at CMU, I was a teaching assistant in the biological sciences department and performed research with Dr. Amy Csink studying the chromatin structure in Drosophila. I came to Vanderbilt as part of the IGP program in 2006. After completing 3 other rotations, I decided to join the Labosky Lab in March of 2007. I will be working on understanding the role of the stem cell gene Foxd3 in pancreas physiology and beta-cell maintenance. My work is funded by a Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Research Grant, and I am on the Molecular Endocrinology Training Program training grant here at Vanderbilt.

Publications

PubMedID	Citation
20802254	Wicksteed B, Brissova M, Yan W, Opland DM, Plank JL, Reinert RB, Dickson LM, Tamarina NA, Philipson LH, Shostak A, Bernal-Mizrachi E, Elghazi L, Roe MW, Labosky PA, Myers MM, Gannon M, Powers AC, Dempsey PJ. Conditional gene targeting in mouse pancreatic {beta}-cells: Analysis of ectopic Cre transgene expression in the brain. (2010) Diabetes :
18493059	Nisha P, Plank JL, Csink AK. Analysis of chromatin structure of genes silenced by heterochromatin in trans. (2008) Genetics 179: 359-73