Mrs Silke Berger - Researcher Profile

Biography

Silke works in the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences at Monash University as a Research Fellow.

Qualifications

BACHELOR OF MEDICAL TECHNICAL ASSISTANT/LABORATORY

Institution: School of Medical Technical Assistants, Gottingen - German

Year awarded: 1997

Publications

Books

Bryson-Richardson, R., Berger, S., Currie, P., 2012, Atlas of Zebrafish Development, Academic Press, UK.

Journal Articles

Sztal, T.E., Chung, H., Berger, S., Currie, P.D., Batterham, P., Daborn, P.J., 2012, A cytochrome P450 conserved in insects is involved in cuticle formation, PLoS ONE [P], vol 7, issue 5 (Art. No: e36544), Public Library of Science, USA, pp. 1-9.

Johnson, J.F., Hall, T.E., Dyson, J.M., Sonntag, C., Ayers, K.L., Berger, S., Gautier, P., Mitchell, C.A., Hollway, G.E., Currie, P.D., 2012, Scube activity is necessary for Hedgehog signal transduction in vivo, Developmental Biology [P], vol 368, issue 2, Academic Press, USA, pp. 193-202.

Sztal, T., Berger, S., Currie, P., Hall, T., 2011, Characterization of the laminin gene family and evolution in zebrafish, Developmental Dynamics [P], vol 240, issue 2, John Wiley & Sons Inc, USA, pp. 422-431.

Cole, N.J., Hall, T.E., Don, E.K., Berger, S., Boisvert, C.A., Neyt, C., Ericsson, R., Joss, J., Gurevich, D.B., Currie, P.D., 2011, Development and evolution of the muscles of the pelvic fin, Plos Biology [P], vol 9, issue 10 (Art. No: e1001168), Public Library of Science, USA, pp. 1-10.

Berger, J., Berger, S., Jacoby, A., Wilton, S., Currie, P., 2011, Evaluation of exon-skipping strategies for Duchenne muscular dystrophy utilizing dystrophin-deficient zebrafish, Journal Of Cellular And Molecular Medicine [P], vol 15, issue 12, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd, UK, pp. 2643-2651.

Berger, J., Berger, S., Hall, T.E., Lieschke, G.J., Currie, P.D., 2010, Dystrophin-deficient zebrafish feature aspects of the Duchenne muscular dystrophy pathology, Neuromuscular Disorders [P], vol 20, issue 12, Elsevier Ltd, UK, pp. 826-832.

Jacoby, A.S., Busch-Nentwich, E., Bryson-Richardson, R.J., Hall, T.E., Berger, J., Berger, S., Sonntag, C., Sachs, C., Geisler, R., Stemple, D., Currie, P.D., 2009, The zebrafish dystrophic mutant softy maintains muscle fibre viability despite basement membrane rupture and muscledetachment, Development [P], vol 136, issue 19, The Company of Biologists Ltd, UK, pp. 3367-3376.

Berger, J., Berger, S., Tuoc, T.C., D'Amelio, M., Cecconi, F., Gorski, J.A., Jones, K.R., Gruss, P., Stoykova, A., 2007, Conditional activation of Pax6 in the developing cortex of transgenic mice causes progenitor apoptosis, Development [P], vol 134, issue 7, The Company of Biologists Ltd., UK, pp. 1311-1322.

Bryson-Richardson, R.J., Berger, S., Schilling, T.F., Hall, T.E., Cole, N.J., Gibson, A.J., Sharpe, J., Currie, P.D., 2007, FishNet: an online database of zebrafish anatomy, BMC Biology [P], vol 5, issue 1, BioMed Central Ltd, UK, pp. 34-41.

Hall, T.E., Bryson-Richardson, R.J., Berger, S., Jacoby, A.S., Cole, N.J., Hollway, G.E., Berger, J., Currie, P.D., 2007, The zebrafish candyfloss mutant implicates extracellular matrix adhesion failure in laminin alpha2-deficient congenital muscular dystrophy, Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America [P], vol 104, issue 17, National Academy of Sciences, USA, pp. 7092-7097.

Hollway, G.E., Bryson-Richardson, R.J., Berger, S., Cole, N.J., Hall, T.E., Currie, P.D., 2007, Whole-somite rotation generates muscle progenitor cell compartments in the developing zebrafish embryo, Developmental Cell [P], vol 12, issue 2, Cell Press, USA, pp. 207-219.

Berger, J., Berger, S., Scardigli, R., Guillemot, F., Gruss, P., Stoykova, A., 2004, E1-Ngn2/Cre is a new line for regional activation of Cre recombinase in the developing CNS, Genesis [P], vol 40, issue 4, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., USA, pp. 195-199.

Moreno, S., Ferraro, R., Berger, S., Cecconi, F., 2002, Apaf1 reduced expression levels generate a mutant phenotype in adult brain and skeleton, Cell Death and Differentiation [P], vol 9, issue 3, Nature Publishing Group, UK, pp. 340-342.