Jennifer Jane (Jennifer) Westendorf, Ph.D.

Minnesota

Graduate School

Biomedical Sciences - Immunology, Mayo Graduate School, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

Fellowships

Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biochemistry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Tumor Cell Biology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN

Academic Rank

Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Orthopedics

Interests

• Mechanisms whereby the transcription factors, Runx2 and Lef1, regulate gene expression in osteoblasts
• Determine how multiple repression domains in Runx2 mediate interactions with other proteins to contribute to transcription repression
• Define how the interactions of three histone deacetylases and a transcription factor (Lef1) with Runx2 are regulated during osteoblast differentiation and cancer-induced bone disease
• Define how Runx2 complexes contribute to bone formation and metastatic cancer

Publications

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Research

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