University of Cincinnati: Genome Research Institute.

Department of Molecular Oncogenesis
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Maryellen Daston is a medical writer and editor with a background in laboratory research. She received her PhD in Anatomy, Cell Biology and Neuroscience at University of Cincinnati College of Medicine under the guidance of Dr. Nancy Ratner. Her postdoctoral research was carried out with Dr. Dennis D. M. O’Leary in the Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California. She has worked as a freelance medical writer and editor, and as a grant writer at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. She joined the GRI as a scientific writer and editor in 2006. Her interest is in working with researchers to improve the clarity, flow, and precision of their written communications.

Publications

1:	Daston MM, Scrable H, Nordlund M, Sturbaum AK, Nissen LM, Ratner N The protein product of the neurofibromatosis type 1 gene is expressed at highest abundance in neurons, Schwann cells, and oligodendrocytes. Neuron. 1992 Mar;8(3):415-28. PMID: 1550670 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

2:	Daston MM, Ratner N Neurofibromin, a predominantly neuronal GTPase activating protein in the adult, is ubiquitously expressed during development. Dev Dyn. 1992 Nov;195(3):216-26. PMID: 1301085 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

3:	Daston MM, Koester SE Transcriptional regulation of axon pathfinding. Neuron. 1996 Jul;17(1):5-8. PMID: 8755473 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

4:	Bastmeyer M, Daston MM, Possel H, O'Leary DD Collateral branch formation related to cellular structures in the axon tract during corticopontine target recognition. J Comp Neurol. 1998 Mar;392(1):1-18. PMID: 9482229 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

5:	Daston MM, Bastmeyer M, Rutishauser U, O'Leary DD Spatially restricted increase in polysialic acid enhances corticospinal axon branching related to target recognition and innervation. J Neurosci. 1996 Sep;16(17):5488-97. PMID: 8757261 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]