LeAnn Howe

Professor

mail ljhowe@mail.ubc.ca

call 604-822-6297

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Research Focus Teams

Aging, Cancer

Research Interests

Chromatin, Chromosomes: Structure / Organization, Gene Regulation and Expression, Histone Modification, Molecular Biology, Protein structure and function, Yeast Genetics

Departments

Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Bio

BSc, University of Victoria, 1992
PhD, University of Victoria, 1998
CIHR Post-Doctoral Fellow, Pennsylvania State University, 1998-2003

2006 CIHR New Investigator Award
2004 Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Scholar Award

Recent Publications

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A fluorescent assay for cryptic transcription in Saccharomyces cerevisiae reveals novel insights into factors that stabilize chromatin structure on newly replicated DNA

Reply to: Pitfalls in using phenanthroline to study the causal relationship between promoter nucleosome acetylation and transcription