Christopher Quinn
Assistant Professor
Department of Cell and Molecular Biology
University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
United States of America
Biography
Christopher Quinn is working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI. Quinn has completed his Postdoctoral Fellow from Rutgers University, PhD from Yale University and BA from Rutgers University. Quinn honoured with Shaw Scientist Award,Individual National Research Service Award and UMDNJ Foundation Fellow.
Research Interest
Dr. Quinn focused upon the mental and neurological disorders such as Autism and Down Syndrome, mechanisms to control neural circuit formation, therapies after neural injury, navigation of axons and he has identified MIG-10/lamellipodin as an intracellular scaffolding protein.
Publications
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Xu Y, Taru H, Jin Y, Quinn CC. SYD-1C, UNC-40 (DCC) and SAX-3 (Robo) function interdependently to promote axon guidance by regulating the MIG-2 GTPase. PLoS genetics. 2015 Apr 15;11(4):e1005185.
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Xu Y, Quinn CC. SYD-1 promotes multiple developmental steps leading to neuronal connectivity. Molecular neurobiology. 2016 Dec 1;53(10):6768-73.
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Xu Y, Quinn CC. Transition between synaptic branch formation and synaptogenesis is regulated by the lin-4 microRNA. Developmental biology. 2016 Dec 1;420(1):60-6.
