His lecture, titled “Transplant models of patient-specific gamete-derived pluripotent stem cells,” will take place Feb. 23, 2012, at 4 p.m. in the Medical Sciences Building auditorium on USA's main campus.
Dr. McLaughlin also serves as director of the Transgenic and Embryonic Stem Cell Core in the Center for Molecular and Human Genetics at The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital.
Dr. McLaughlin’s area of research involves genomic imprinting which refers to the phenomenon that, in somatic cells, certain genes are preferentially expressed from one parental allele, such that maternally and paternally inherited genetic information is expressed unequally.
Dr. McLaughlin received B.S. degrees in biology and reproductive physiology and a Ph.D. degree from The University of Adelaide.
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