© 2012 Ethan Carver

 

Education  

Ph.D., Biomedical Sciences

University of Tennessee at Knoxville

Oak Ridge Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences

 

Dissertation Research: COMPARATIVE MAPPING FOR POSITIONAL CLONING AND DEFINING HOMOLOGY REGIONS BETWEEN THE MOUSE AND HUMAN GENOMES

 

B.S., Biology

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Department of Biology

 

Experience

Current:

Associate Professor of Biology: Vertebrate Developmental Biology

Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN

 

Past:

ComputerCraft/NCBI

Bioinformatics Reference Sequence Scientist

National Institute of Health, Bethesda, Maryland

 

Bioinformatics Consultant

Proteome/Incyte Genomics

 

Postdoctoral Associate

Developmental Biology

The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME

 

Graduate Research Assistant

Genomics and Molecular Biology {Dr. Lisa Stubbs (Dissertation Advisor)}

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA and

Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN

 

Publications

Kim, J., Vaughn, AR., Cho, C., Albu, TV. and Carver, E.A.  (2012). Modifications of Ribonuclease A Induced by p-Benzoquinone. BioOrganic Chemistry 40:92–98.

 

Lessman, C.A., Taylor, M.R., Orisme, W., and Carver, E.A. (2010). Use of Flatbed Transparency Scanners in Zebrafish Research: Versatile and Economical Adjuncts to Traditional Imaging Tools for the Danio rerio Laboratory. Methods Cell Biol. 2010;100:295-322.

 

Murray, S.A., Carver, E.A., and Gridley, T. (2006). Generation of a Snail1 (Snai1) conditional null allele. Genesis. 44(1):7-11.

 

Savagner, P., Kusewitt, D.F., Carver, E.A., Magnino, F., Choi, C., Gridley, T., and Hudson, L.G. (2005). Developmental transcription factor slug is required for effective re-epithelialization by adult keratinocytes. J Cell Physiol. 202(3):858-866.

 

Oram, K., Carver, E. A., and Gridley, T. (2003). Slug expression during organogenesis in mice. Anat Rec. 271A:189-91.

 

Carver, E. A., Oram, K., and Gridley, T. (2002). Craniosynostosis in Twist heterozygous mice: a model for Saethre-Chotzen syndrome. Anat Rec. 268:90-92.

 

Zhao, P., Iezzi, S., Carver, E., Dressman, D., Gridley, T., Sartorelli, V., and Hoffman E.P. (2002). Slug is a novel downstream target of MyoD. Temporal profiling in muscle regeneration. J Biol Chem. 277:30091-300101

 

Carver, E. A., and Gridley, T. (2002). Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transitions and Cancer. Current Genomics Vol.3, No.4:355-361.

 

Carver, E. A., Jiang, R., Lan, Y., Oram, K. F., and Gridley, T. (2001). The Mouse Snail Gene encodes a Key Regulator of the Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition. Moleclular and Cellular Biology 21:8184-8188.

 

Carver, E. A., Olsen, A., Hamann , J., and Stubbs, L. (1999). Physical Mapping of EMR1 and CD97 in Human Chromosome 19 and assignment of Cd97 to Mouse Chromosome 8 suggest an Ancient Genomic Duplication. Mammalian Genome 10:1039-1040.

 

Carver, E. A., Issel-Tarver, L., Rine, J., Olsen, A., and Stubbs, L. (1998). Location of Mouse and Human Genes Corresponding to Conserved Canine Olfactory Receptor Gene Subfamilies. Mammalian Genome 9:349-354.

 

Meriaudeau F., Goudonnet, J.P., Carver, E., Parks, J.E., Jacobson, KB., Warmack, R.J., Ferrell, T.L. (1998).  Photon scanning-tunneling microscopy of unstained Mammalian cells and chromosomes. Applied Optics. 37:7276-88.

 

Carver, E. A., and Stubbs, L. (1997). Zooming In on the Human-Mouse Comparative Map: Genome Conservation Re-examined on a High-Resolution Scale. Genome Research 7:1123-1137.

 

Kim, J., Carver, E. A., and Stubbs, L. (1997). Amplification and Sequencing of End Fragments from Bacterial Artificial Chromosome (BAC) clones by Single-Primer PCR. Analytical Biochemistry 253: 272-275.

 

Culiat, C., Carver, E. A., Walkowicz, M., Rinchik, E., Cacheiro, N., Russell, L., Generoso, W., and Stubbs, L. (1997). Induced Chromosomal Rearrangements as Tools for Identifying Critical Developmental Genes and Pathways in the Mouse. Reproductive Toxicology 11:345-351.

 

Stubbs, L, Carver, E. A., Cacheiro, N. L. A., Shelby, M., and Generoso, W. (1997). Generation and Characterization of Heritable Reciprocal Translocations in Mice. Methods: A Companion to Methods in Enzymology 13: 397-408.

 

Stubbs, L., Carver, E. A., Shannon, M., Kim, J., Geisler, J., Generoso, E., Stanford, B., Dunn,W., Mohrenweiser, H., Zimmermann, W., Watt, S., and Ashworth, L. (1996). Detailed Comparative Map of Human Chromosome 19q and Related Regions of the Mouse Genome. Genomics 35: 499-508.

 

Stubbs, L., Carver, E. A., Ashworth, L., and Lopez-Molina, L. (1996). Location of the DBP Transcription Factor Gene in Man and Mouse. Mammalian Genome 7:65-67.

 

Support

THEC  Grant (Co-Director) ( 5/12-12/13)

NIH AREA grant (PI) 1R15AR055798-01A1  (9/09-8/13)

NSF MRI grant (PI) DBI-0922941  (9/09-8/12) 

UC Foundation Faculty Summer Research Fellowship (5/09-8/09)

NSF MRI grant (Co-PI) #DBI-0821057  (8/08-7/11)

UC Foundation Faculty Research Grant R04-1011-088 (5/07-5/08)

UC Foundation Instructional Excellence Award R04-1011-082 (5/07-5/08)

UC Foundation Instructional Excellence Award R04-1011-082 (12/05-12/06)

American Cancer Society grant recipient PT-01-130-10-MGO (7/01-7/02)

National Cancer Institute, Institutional Training Grant Recipient #CA09217 (6/99-7/01)