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Name

Dr. Paul Scotting

Qualifications

PhD, BSc

Position

Associate Professor

School/Division

Institute of Genetics, School of Biology

Contact

Phone: +44 (0) 115 8230350
Fax: +44 (0) 115 8230313
Email: paul.scotting@nottingham.ac.uk
Web: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/genetics/people/scotting/

Research interests

I am interested in the cellular and molecular origins of children’s brain tumours. In particular, the origins of cranial Germ Cell Tumours and the role of epigenetics in initiating brain tumours. I also have a related research programme studying the molecular basis of nervous system development in vertebrates, especially the mechanisms by which multipotent stem cells become 'neural'.

Dr. Paul Scotting and the Molecular Neurogenesis Research Team

Dr. Paul Scotting and the Molecular Neurogenesis Research Team

Recent publications

Clapp J, Mitchell IM, Bolland DJ, FantesJ, Corcoran AE, Scotting PJ, Armour JAL. and Hewitt. JE (2007). Evolutionary conservation of a coding function for D4Z4, the tandem DNA repeat mutated in facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy. American Journal of Human Genetics (In Press).

 

El-zaatari, Tobias, Grabowska, Kumari, Scotting, Kaye, Atherton, Clarke, Powe, and Watson ( 2007). De-regulation of the sonic hedgehog pathway in the insgas mouse model of gastric carcinogenesis. British Journal of Cancer (In press).

 

Jackson L, Jones R, Scotting PJ and Sottile V (2007). Adult mesenchymal stem cells: differentiation potential and therapeutic applications. J Postgrad Med. 53(2):121-127.

 

Alcock J, Scotting P, Sottile V (2007). Bergmann glia as putative stem cells of the mature cerebellum. Med. Hypotheses.

 

Shun-Kuo Sun, Chris T Dee, Vineeta B Tripathi, Andrea Rengifo and Paul J Scotting (2007). Epibranchial and otic placodes are induced by a common Fgf signal, but their subsequent development is independent. Dev. Biol. 303: 675–686

 

Dee C, Gibson A, Rengifo A, Sun, S-K, Patient RK and Scotting PJ (2007). A Change in Response to Bmp Signalling precedes Ectodermal Fate Choice. Int. J. Dev. Biol. 51: 79-84.

 

Scotting PJ (2006). Are cranial germ cell tumours really tumours of germ cells? Neuropath. App. Neurobiol. 32, 569-574.