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Melissa E. Pepling

Associate Professor

mepeplin@syr.edu

Office: LSC 348
Phone: 315-443-4541; Lab: 315-443-9948
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Education

B.S., Cornell University (1985)
M.S., Adephi University (1988)
Ph.D., SUNY, Stony Brook (1995)

Research interests

Regulation of mouse oocyte development; Hormone signaling in oocyte differentiation.

Courses

Bio 425 Cell & Developmental Biology Laboratory
Bio 503 Developmental Biology

Interdisciplinary Programs

Structural Biology, Biochemistry, and Biophysics Program

Selected Publications

Pepling, M.E, Sundman, E.A., Patterson, N.L., Gephardt, G.W., Medico, L. and Wilson, K. I. (2010) Differences in oocyte development and estradiol sensitivity among mouse strains. Reproduction 139, 349-357.

Chen, Y., Breen, K. and Pepling, M.E.  (2009)  Estrogen Can Signal Through Multiple Pathways to Regulate Oocyte Cyst Breakdown and Primordial Follicle Assembly in the Neonatal Mouse Ovary.  Journal of Endocrinology, 202, 407-417.

Chen, Y., Jefferson, W., Newbold, R., Padilla-Banks, E. and Pepling, M.E. (2007). Estradiol, progesterone and genistein inhibit oocyte nest breakdown and primordial follicle assembly in the neonatal mouse ovary in vitro and in vivo. Endocrinology, 148, 3580-3590.

Pepling, M.E., Wilhelm, J.E., O'Hara, A.L., Gephardt, G.W. and Spradling, A.C. (2007) Mouse oocytes within germ cell cysts and primordial follicles contain a Balbiani body. PNAS, 104:187-192.

Pepling, M.E. (2006) From primordial germ cell to primordial follicle: mammalian female germ cell development. Genesis 44, 622-632.