Position:
Research Manager, Brain Tumor Centre Accelerator
Telephone:
0131 651 9500
Display email:
gillian.morrison@ed.ac.uk
Biography:
• Chancellor’s Fellow, October 2013. MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh.
• JDRF Advanced Postdoctoral Fellow. Wellcome Trust-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge with Prof Austin Smith.
• Postdoctoral Researcher. Institute of Stem Cell Research, University of Edinburgh with Dr Josh Brickman.
• PhD. MRC Human Genetics Unit, Edinburgh with Dr Julia Dorin.
• BSc Genetics. University of Aberdeen
Publications
2016
Convergence of cMyc and β-catenin on Tcf7l1 enables endoderm specification.
Morrison, Gillian M., Scognamiglio Roberta, Trumpp Andreas, and Smith Austin
, EMBO J, 2016 Jan 1, Volume 35, Issue 3, p.356-68, (2016)
2012
Transcriptional activation by Oct4 is sufficient for the maintenance and induction of pluripotency.
Hammachi, Fella, Morrison Gillian M., Sharov Alexei A., Livigni Alessandra, Narayan Santosh, Papapetrou Eirini P., O'Malley James, Kaji Keisuke, Ko Minoru S. H., Ptashne Mark, et al.
, Cell Rep, 2012 Feb 23, Volume 1, Issue 2, p.99-109, (2012)
2009
Differentiation of embryonic stem cells into anterior definitive endoderm.
Livigni, Alessandra, Villegas Santiago Nahuel, Oikonomopoulou Ifigenia, Rahman Afifah, Morrison Gillian M., and Brickman Joshua M.
, Curr Protoc Stem Cell Biol, 2009 Jul, Volume Chapter 1, p.Unit 1G.3, (2009)
2008
Anterior definitive endoderm from ESCs reveals a role for FGF signaling.
Morrison, Gillian M., Oikonomopoulou Ifigenia, Migueles Rosa Portero, Soneji Shamit, Livigni Alessandra, Enver Tariq, and Brickman Joshua M.
, Cell Stem Cell, 2008 Oct 9, Volume 3, Issue 4, p.402-15, (2008)
2006
Conserved roles for Oct4 homologues in maintaining multipotency during early vertebrate development.
Morrison, Gillian M., and Brickman Joshua M.
, Development, 2006 May, Volume 133, Issue 10, p.2011-22, (2006)