Paula Gregory, PhD

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	Paula Gregory, PhD Associate Professor of Genetics 533 Bolivar Street New Orleans, LA 70112 Phone: (504) 568-6153 Fax: (504) 568-8500 pgrego@lsuhsc.edu High School Students Learn How to Extract, Study Their Own DNA Workshop for High School Biology Teachers Using Forensics to Teach Genetics Summer Student Program
Degrees	BS - 1977 University of Southern Mississippi MS Cytogenetics - 1978 University of Southern Mississippi PhD Cancer Cytogenetics - 1988 Tulane University
Bio	Dr. Paula Gregory is a Mississippi native. She received both her BS and MS. degrees at the University of Southern Mississippi. Her PhD research was carried out at Tulane University on cancer cytogenetics. For her postdoctoral training, she worked with Dr. Bill Brinkley at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and did further training with Dr. Francis Collins at the University of Michigan. While at U of M, she started the first Education Program within a Human Genome Center. In 1993, she started the Genetics Education Office of the National Institute for Human Genome Research within the National Institutes of Health, as a national extension of her work at U of M. While at the NIH, she started several new and innovative educational programs for the media, policy makers, students, faculty and the public. She worked with high school teachers each year from all around the country. These efforts earned her the NHGRI Award of Merit (1994), NIH Director's Award (1997), the NIH Award of Merit (1998) and the Champions of the James Award (2000). She accepted a faculty position at the Ohio State University in 1997 and began research focused on cancer genetics education. In 2002 Dr. Gregory joined the Department of Genetics at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center as an Associate Professor. Dr. Gregory directs a High School Research Partnership program that brings PCR technology into high school biology classes in Louisiana. Students analyze their own DNA. They learn basic concepts of cancer genetics and discuss the ethical implications of predictive genetic tests and the impact this information may have on families. She also directs Research Summer Internships ( genetics summer series ) for high school, undergraduates and Medical Students.This program supports students to work in a variety of research labs during the summer. It also provides a summer seminar series for the students and travel scholarships for interns to attend scientific meetings. Dr. Gregory is the Co-Director of the Education/Training Core of the Clinical and Translational Research, Education and Commercialization Project (CTRECP). The CTRECP is a joint effort of the Tulane University Health Sciences Center and the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-New Orleans, with funding from the Louisiana Board of Regents’ Research Commercialization and Educational Enhancement Program (RC/EEP). The Education/Training Core coordinates mentored research, and offers a master’s of science degree in clinical research or a certificate in clinical research. The curriculum is designed to foster career development and professionalism. Didactic courses provide formal research logistics and analytical tools as well as grant writing, a case-based responsible conduct of research course, a topics course, a seminar series and either Biostatistics or Epidemiology. http://ctrecp.neworleansbio.com/education.html
Selected Publications	Munn M, Skinner PO, Conn L, Horsma HG, Gregory P, The involvement of genome researchers in high school science education., Genome Res 9(7):597-607, 1999. Wijmenga C, Gregory PE, Schrock E, Ried T, Eils R, Liu PP, Collins FS, The CBF--SMMHC chimeric protein involved in acute myeloid leukemia forms novel nuclear plate-like structures in transformed NIH 3T3 cells., Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 93:1630-1635, 1996. Gregory PE, Guttmann DH, Mitchell AL, Park S, Jacks T, Wood DL, Boguski M, Jove R, Collins FS, The neurofibromatosis type gene product co-localizes with microtubules., Somat Cell Mol Genet 3:265-274, 1993. Wallace MR, Anderson LB, Saulino A, Brereton A, Gregory PE, Glover TW, Collins FS, A de novo Alu insertion results in neurofibromatosis type 1., Nature 353:864, 1991. Bunnell BA, Fillmore H, Gregory PE, Kidd VJ, A dominant negative mutation in two proteins created by ectopic expression of an Au-rich 3' untranslated region., Somat Cell Mol Genet 16:151-162, 1989.
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Associate Professor of Genetics