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JANICE PLUTH, PHD

Scientist, Life Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

CONTACT

jmpluth@lbl.gov
(510) 486-7495 (voice)
(510) 486-6816 (fax)

Lawrence Berkeley Nat'l Lab; Mailstop 74R0157
1 Cyclotron Road; Berkeley, CA 94720

EDUCATION

University of Minnesota, Mlps, MN, BA, 1989, Microbiology
University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, PhD, 1996, Molecular Genetics

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1986-1987

Research Technician, Dept of Environmental Pathology, University of Minnesota in Mlps

1987-1990

Senior Research Assistant, Dept of Medical Genetics, University of Minnesota in Mlps

1990-1996

Environmental Pathology Training Grant Fellow, Vermont Cancer Center, University of VT, Burlington, VT.

1996-1999

Postdoctoral Fellow, Biomed. Sci. Div., Lawrence Livermore Nat'l Lab, Livermore, CA.

2/99-4/00

Postdoctoral Fellow, Radiation Oncology, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA.

4/00-5/01

Postdoctoral Fellow, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA.

5/01-present

Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab., Berkeley, CA

HONORS & AWARDS

1990-1996

Environmental Pathology Training Grant Fellowship

1999

Katherine McCormick Fellowship

1999

Cancer Biology Fellowship

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Pluth, J.M.,Yamazaki, V, Cooper, B.A., Rydberg, B.E., Kirchgessner, C.U. and Cooper, P.K. Nijmegen Breakage Syndrome Cells Are Defective in Fidelity of DNA Double Strand Break Rejoining. Submitted to DNA Repair, in review (2006).

Wang, J., Pluth, J.M., Cooper, P.K., Cowan, M.J., Chen, D.J., Yannone, S.M. (2005). Artemis deficiency confers a DNA double-strand break repair defect and Artemis phosphorylation status is altered by DNA damage and cell cycle progression. DNA Repair, 4(5):556-70.

Pluth, J.M., Fried, L.M., Kirchgessner, C. (2000). Severe combined immunodeficient cells expressing mutant hRAD54 exhibit a marked DNA double-strand break repair and error prone chromosome repair defect. Cancer Research, 61(6):2649-55.

Pluth, J.M., Ramsey, M.J., Nelson, D., Tucker, J.D. (1999). The relationship between genotype and chromosome aberration frequencies in a normal adult population. Pharmacogenetics 10(4):311-9.

Pluth, J.M., Ramsey, M.J., Tucker, J.D. (1999). Role of Maternal Exposures and Newborn Genotypes on Newborn Chromosome Aberration Frequencies. Mutation Research 465(1-2):101-11.

Johnson, K.L., Nath, J., Pluth, J.M., Tucker, J.D (1999). Clonal aberrations, non-reciprocal translocations, and the distribution of chromosome damage in lymphocytes from Chernobyl clean-up workers. Mutation Research 439:77-85.

Pluth J.M., O'Neill, J.P., Nicklas, J.A., Albertini, R.J. (1997). Molecular bases of hprt mutations in malathion-treated human T-lymphocytes. Mutation Research, 397:137-148.

Pluth J.M., Nicklas J.A., O'Neill J.P., Albertini R.J. (1996) Increased frequency of specific genomic deletions resulting from in vitro malathion exposure. Cancer Res., 56:2393-2399.

7/27/06

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