Claudia Vargas Morris
PhD Student, Department of Neuroscience

E-mail: claudia.morris@mssm.edu

Tel: (212) 214-2774

Mailing Address

One Gustave L. Levy Place, Box 1603, New York NY 10029

Location

Annenberg Building, 1468 Madison Avenue, Room 19-70

Training and Education

B.S. (2002) Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA

Current Research Interests

Many factors influence drug vulnerability to drug addiction. Currently, my research focuses on the epigenetic effects of maternal marijuana use on development.

Publications

Li AM, Vargas CA, Brykailo MA, Openo KK, Corbett AH, Fridovich-Keil JL. Both KH and non-KH domain sequences are required for polyribosome association of Scp160p in yeast. Nucleic Acids Res. 2004 Sep 8;32(16):4768-75

Chhay JS, Vargas CA, McCorvie TJ, Fridovich-Keil JL, Timson DJ. Analysis of UDP-galactose 4'-epimerase mutations associated with the intermediate form of type III galactosaemia J Inherit Metab Dis. 2008 Feb;31(1):108-16

Mendelsohn BA, Li AM, Vargas CA, Riehman K, Watson A, Fridovich-Keil JL. Genetic and biochemical interactions between SCP160 and EAP1 in yeast. Nucleic Acids Res. 2003 Oct 15;31(20):5838-47

Nogueira EF, Vargas CA, Otis M, Gallo-Payet N, Bollag WB, Rainey WE. Angiotensin-II acute regulation of rapid response genes in human, bovine, and rat adrenocortical cells. J Mol Endocrinol. 2007 Dec;39(6):365-74

Openo KK, Schulz JM, Vargas CA, Orton CS, Epstein MP, Schnur RE, Scaglia F, Berry GT, Gottesman GS, Ficicioglu C, Slonim AE, Schroer RJ, Yu C, Rangel VE, Keenan J, Lamance K, Fridovich-Keil JL.. Epimerase-deficiency galactosemia is not a binary condition. Am J Hum Genet. 2006 Jan;78(1):89-102

Xu Z, Lance B, Vargas C, Arpinar B, Bhandarkar S, Kraemer E, Kochut KJ, Miller JA, Wagner JR, Weise MJ, Wunderlich JK, Stringer J, Smulian G, Cushion MT, Arnold J. Mapping by sequencing the Pneumocystis genome using the ordering DNA sequences V3 tool. Genetics. 2003 Apr;163(4):1299-313