Wes Gifford
Graduate Student
Email: wgifford@salk.edu
Extension: x2020
Present Medical Scientist Training Program
University of California, San Diego
2005 B.S. Neuroscience with Highest Honors
University of California, Los Angeles
2009-Present
Graduate Student
University of California, San Diego Neurosciences Graduate Program
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Samuel Pfaff, Salk Institute
2007-2009
Medical Student
University of California, San Diego School of Medicine
2005-2007
Laboratory Research Assistant
Laboratories of Dr. Albert Lai and Dr. Pablo Villablanca
UCLA Department of Neurology and UCLA Department of Radiology
2001-2005
Undergraduate Student
University of California, Los Angeles
Thesis Advisors: Dr. Albert Lai and Dr. Andrew Charles
2009-Present
California Institute for Regenerative Medicine
Stem Cell Training Program Pre-Doctoral Fellowship
Macfarlan TS, Gifford WD, Driscoll S, Lettieri K, Rowe HM, Bonanomi D, Firth A, Singer O, Trono D, Pfaff SL. Embryonic stem cell potency fluctuates with endogenous retrovirus activity. Nature. 2012 Jul 5;487(7405):57-63.
Macfarlan TS, Gifford WD, Agarwal S, Driscoll S, Lettieri K, Wang J, Andrews SE, Franco L, Rosenfeld MG, Ren B, Pfaff SL. Endogenous retroviruses and neighboring genes are coordinately repressed by LSD1/KDM1A. Genes Dev. 2011 25:594-607.
Chtchetinin J, Gifford WD, Li S, Paznekas WA, Jabs EW, Lai A. Tyrosine-dependent basolateral targeting of human connexin43-eYFP in Madin-Darby canine kidney cells can be disrupted by the oculodentodigital dysplasia mutation L90V. FEBS J. 2009 Dec;276(23):6992-7005.
Boland MJ, Hazen JL, Nazor KL, Rodriguez AR, Gifford W, Martin G, Kupriyanov S, Baldwin KK. Adult mice generated from induced pluripotent stem cells. Nature. 2009 Sep 3;461(7260):91-4.
Lai A, Le DN, Paznekas WA, Gifford WD, Jabs EW, Charles AC. Oculodentodigital dysplasia connexin43 mutations result in non-functional hemichannels and gap junctions in C6 glioma cells. J Cell Sci. 2006 Feb 1;119(Pt 3):532-41.