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DR. VETT LLOYD - ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

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Academic History

B.Sc University of British Columbia
M.Sc.

University of Geneva

Ph.D. University of British Columbia

Research Interests
Gene expression in development
Drosophila models for human diseases
Epigenetic gene silencing

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Representative Publications
McEachern LA, Lloyd VK. (2012) The maize b1 paramutation control region causes epigenetic silencing in Drosophila melanogaster. Mol Genet Genomics. 287(7):591-606.  http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00438-012-0702-z 
 
N. F. Robichaud, J. Sassine, M. J. Beaton, V.K. Lloyd. (2012) The epigenetic repertoire of Daphnia magna includes modified histones. Genetics Research International 174860. http://www.hindawi.com/journals/gri/2012/174860/
 
G. D. Gibson, C. Hart, R. Pierce, and V. Lloyd (2012) Ontogenetic Survey of Histone Modifications in an Annelid. Genetics Research International ; 392903. Epub 2012 Feb 19. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3335605/ 
 
K. D. M. Harris, N. J. Bartlett, and V. K. Lloyd. Daphnia as an Emerging Epigenetic Model Organism (2011) Genetics Research International 2012, Article ID 147892, 8 doi:10.1155/2012/147892  http://www.hindawi.com/journals/gri/2012/147892/ 
 

Lori A. McEachern and Vett K. Lloyd (2011) The epigenetics of genomic imprinting In: B. Hallgrímsson and B.K. Hall eds., Epigenetics: Linking Genotype and Phenotype in Development and Evolution.  San Francisco: University of California Press. 

 
W.A. MacDonald, D. Menon, N J. Bartlett, G.E. Sperry, V. Rasheva, V. Meller, and V. Lloyd (2010) The Drosophila homolog of the mammalian imprint regulator, CTCF, maintains the maternal genomic imprint in Drosophila melanogaster BMC Biology 8:105 (14 pages). http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7007/8/105/ 

TEACHING ASSIGNMENT
2013 - 2014

FALL
WINTER
Biology 1201 Human Biology   Biology 2601 Cell Biology
Biology 3641 Genetic Regulation of Development   Biology 3621 Experiential Genetics
         
YEAR
Biology 4950 Special Topics in Biology
Biology 4990 Honours Thesis
Biology 5990 M.Sc. Thesis in Biology

Contact Information

E-mail: vlloyd@mta.ca
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Department of Biology
Mount Allison University
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Sackville, New Brunswick
Canada  E4L 1G7

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