Gregory F. Lopreato

EDUCATION:

Ph.D., Biology, The University of Texas at Austin, (2000). A PCR-Based Census of Sodium Channel Genes in the Genome of the Weakly Electric Teleost, Sternopygus macrurus: Evolutionary Implications.

M.A., Biology, The University of Texas at Austin, (1993). Cloning and in situ hybridization analysis of androgen receptor expression in the brain of whiptail lizards Cnemidophorus uniparens.

B.B.A., Management, The University of Texas at Austin, (1981). 

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

I’m studying the gene shuS, which is believed to play a role in sequestering heme in the cytoplasm.

PUBLICATIONS:

Book Chapters: 

Gregory F. Lopreato, Michael J. Beckstead, Kent E. Vrana and S. John Mihic, Molecular

Studies of Chimeragenesis and Mutagenesis. Methods in Alcohol-Related

Neuroscience Research Ch. 3, p. 63-82, 2002. Y. Liu and D.M. Lovinger, Eds., CRC

Press, Boca Raton. 

Refereed Publications:

Larry J. Young, Gregory F. Lopreato, Karen Horan, and David Crews. Cloning and in situ hybridization analysis of estrogen receptor, progesterone receptor, and androgen receptor expression in the brain of whiptail lizards (Cnemidophorus uniparens and C. inornatus). J Comp Neurol., 347:288-300, 1994.

Harold H. Zakon, Lynn McAnelly, G. Troy Smith, Kent Dunlap, Gregory Lopreato, Jeorg Oestreich, and W. Preston Few. Plasticity of the electric organ discharge: implications for the regulation of ionic currents. J Exp Biol., 202:1409-1416, 1999.

Gregory F. Lopreato, Ying Lu, Amber Southwell, Nigel S. Atkinson, David M. Hillis, Tom P. Wilcox, and Harold H. Zakon, Evolution and Divergence of Sodium Channel Genes in Vertebrates, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 98:7588-7592, 2001.

Gregory F. Lopreato, Rachel Phelan, Michael J. Beckstead and S. John Mihic, Inhaled Drugs of Abuse Enhance Serotonin-3 Receptor Function, Drug and Alcohol Dependence, May 1; 70(1):11-15, 2003.

Geoffrey S. Findlay, Rachel Phelan, Michael T. Roberts, Gregg Homanics, Susan Bergeson, Gregory F. Lopreato, S. John Mihic, Yuri A. Blednov, and R. Adron Harris. Glycine receptor mutant knock-in mice exhibit a more dramatic hyperkplexia-like phenotype compared to the null mutation, J Neurosci. 2003 Sep 3;23(22):8051-9.

Gregory F. Lopreato, Paula Banerjee and S. John Mihic. Amino acids in transmembranedomain two influence anesthetic enhancement of serotonin-3A receptor function, Brain Res Mol Brain Res. 2003 Oct 21;118(1-2):45-51.

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