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Immune System

Immune System. Objectives To select genes that are embryonic lethal Or accept bone marrow from other centres Generate bone marrow chimeras Or generate conditional mutants for EUCOMM allels Analyse phenotypes of these mutants and Establish the course of embryonic lethality.

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Immune System

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  1. Immune System • Objectives • To select genes that are embryonic lethal • Or accept bone marrow from other centres • Generate bone marrow chimeras • Or generate conditional mutants for EUCOMM allels • Analyse phenotypes of these mutants and • Establish the course of embryonic lethality

  2. Members of the Network • Principal Investigator • Werner Muller, University of Manchester, Faculty of Life Science, AV Hill Building, M13 9PT Manchester; Email: Werner.muller@manchester.ac.uk • Co-Investigators • Immunology: Richard Grencis, Kathryn Else, Mark Travis, Sheena Cruikshank,Douglas Millar, Dr. Mat Hardman,Paul Lyons, Jim Middleton • Immune Toxicology:Ian Kimber • Neurobiology: Emmanuel Pinteaux, Stuart Allan • Cardiology: Ludwig Neyses, Elizabeth Cartwright, DelvacOceandy • Developmental Biology:Mike Dixon, Kathryn Hentges • Human Genetics: YanickCrow • Bioinformatics: Andy Brass, Robert Stevens • Manchester Centre for Nuclear Hormone Research in Disease: David Ray

  3. Example 1 Analysis of a B cell phenotype for an embryonic lethal mutation (polymerase beta)

  4. Example 2 Analysis of a complex phenotype for an embryonic lethal mutation using conditional gene targeting (gp130)

  5. neurological, cardiac, hematopoietic, immunological, hepatic and pulmonary

  6. neurological, cardiac, hematopoietic, immunological, hepatic and pulmonary

  7. Immune System • Objectives • To select genes that are embryonic lethal • Or accept bone marrow from other centres • Generate bone marrow chimeras • Or generate conditional mutants for EUCOMM allels • Analyse phenotypes of these mutants and • Establish the course of embryonic lethality

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