PhD Program, Lab of Dr. Alexandra Joyner
Gerstner Sloan-Kettering Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
December 2006-August 2007
Research Assistant, Lab of Dr. John B. Wallingford
Department of Cell, Molecular and Developmental Biology
University of Texas at Austin
May 2005-December 2006
Undergraduate Researcher, Lab of Dr. John B. Wallingford
Department of Cell, Molecular and Developmental Biology
University of Texas at Austin
June 2003-August 2003, June 2004-August 2004
Summer Student Extern, Lab of Dr. Andreas Bergmann
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
MD Anderson Cancer Center
August 2002-December 2006
BS in Cell and Molecular Biology with Special Honors
BA in Plan II Liberal Arts Honors
University of Texas at Austin
Publications:
Heather Scherr and John Wallingford. (2008) Cover Illustration. Cold Spring Harbor Protocols Volume 3, Issue 2
Lee TV, Ding T, Chen Z, Rajendran V, Scherr H, Lackey M, Bolduc C, Bergmann A. (2008) The E1 ubiquitin-activating enzyme Uba1 in Drosophila controls apoptosis autonomously and tissue growth non-autonomously. Development 135(1):43-52. PMID:18045837
Lee C, Scherr HM, Wallingford JB. (2007) A novel role for Shroom family proteins in regulating microtubule architecture during epithelial cell shape change. Development 134(7):1431-41. PMID:17329357
Srivastava M , Scherr H , Lackey M , Xu D , Chen Z , Lu J , Bergmann A.(2007) ARK, the Apaf-1 related killer in Drosophila, requires diverse domains for its apoptotic activity. Cell Death Differ 14(1):92-102 PMID:16645639
Herz HM, Chen Z, Scherr H, Lackey M, Bolduc C, Bergmann A. (2006) vps25 mosaics display nonautonomous cell survival and overgrowth, and autonomous apoptosis. Development 133(10):1871-80. PMID:16611691
Mendes CS, Arama E, Brown S, Scherr H, Srivastava M, Bergmann A, Steller H,Mollereau B. (2006) Cytochrome c-d regulates developmental apoptosis in the Drosophila retina. EMBO Rep 7(9):933-9. PMID:16906130
Research Interests:
I am interested in understanding how genes expressed in parasagittal stripes in the cerebellum, specifically members of the Eph/ephrin family, regulate other gene expression patterns, morphology and afferent axon topography within the cerebellum.
