Collaborators

Klaus Addicks, Bogdan Beirowski,
Michael Reiner, (Department of Anatomy I,
University of Cologne, Germany): ultrastructural and immunological analysis of
transgenic and spontaneous WldS mice; Analysis of the effect
of the Wld gene on gracile axonal dystrophy
michael.reiner@uni-koeln.de
bogdan.beirowski@uni-koeln.de
http://www.uni-koeln.de/med-fak/anatomie/einrichtungen/anatomie1.html
Laura Conforti (Mario Negri Institute, Milan, Italy):
Generation and analysis of knockouts and conditional knockouts of Nmnat and
Ube4b
conforti@marionegri.it
http://www.marionegri.it/frame.asp?sezione=La_ricerca&sez=ricerca
Shama
Fernando, David Smith (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford, UK):
Characterisation of human homologues of the Wld gene and links with human
neurodegenerative disease
shama.fernando@pharmacology.oxford.ac.uk
david.smith@pharm.ox.ac.uk
http://www.pharm.ox.ac.uk/academics/academicsf.htm
Andreas
Jacobs (Max Planck Institute for Neurology, Cologne, Germany): Generation of Hsv
vectors containing the Wld gene
Andreas.Jacobs@pet.mpin-koeln.mpg.de
http://www.mpin-koeln.mpg.de/english/index.htm
Simon
John (The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, USA): the effect of the Wld gene on
glaucoma.
swmj@jax.org
http://www.jax.org/research/documents/research_areas/word_docs/john.html
Ann Kato, Anna Ferri (Department
of Pharmacology, University Medical Centre, Geneva, Switzerland): The effect of
the Wld gene on a mouse model of motor neuron disease
Ann.Kato@medecine.unige.ch
Anna.Ferri@medecine.unige.ch
Giulio
Magni, Monica Emanuelli (Institute of Biochemistry, University of
Ancona,
Italy): Enzymatic properties of the Wld chimeric protein and NAD+ metabolism in WldS
nervous system.
magnig@popcsi.unian.it
m.emanuelli@popcsi.unian.it
Rudolf
Martini, Mohtashem Samsam (Department of Neurology, University of Würzburg,
Germany): The effect of the Wld gene on axon loss in myelin-related axonopathy
neuk176@rzkli.uni-wuerzburg.de
mohtashem.samsam@mail.uni-wuerzburg.de
http://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/neurologie/mitarbeiter/martini/index.htm
Hugh Perry (School of Biological Sciences, University
of Southampton): The ubiquitin pathway in spinal cord injury
V.H.Perry@soton.ac.uk
http://www.soton.ac.uk/~cig/
Richard
Ribchester, Derek Thomson, Tom Gillingwater, Felipe Court (Department
of Neuroscience, University of Edinburgh, Scotland): Electrophysiological
properties of nerves and synapses protected by the Wld gene; Molecular basis of
the "age-effect" (reduction in strength of functional preservation by
Wld with age); Properties of Wld-protected nerve terminals as a model of synapse
elimination
rrr@holyrood.ed.ac.uk
tom@srv0.dns.ed.ac.uk
f.court@sms.ed.ac.uk
http://www.dns.ed.ac.uk/HomePages/RRRWeb.html
Neil Smyth (Institute for Biochemistry II, University
of Cologne, Germany): Generation of knockout mice
for Nmnat and Ube4b.
Neil.Smyth@uni-koeln.de
Keiji Wada, Hitoshi Osaka (National Institute of
Neuroscience, Kodaira, Japan): Analysis of the effect of the Wld gene on gracile
axonal dystrophy
wada@ncnp.go.jp
osaka@ncnp.go.jp
