Animal and Food Sciences | Faculty
Erin L Bernberg
- University of Delaware, Newark, DE
Doctor of Philosophy in Biochemistry, Fall 2004 - Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA
Bachelor of Science in Chemistry, June 1996
- ANSC/ENWC/PLSC 300 - Principles of Plant and Animal Genetics (S2007)
- Microarrays - Fabrication of both nylon membrane and glass slide arrays, labeling and hybridization, familiarity with GenePix and GeneSpring for data analysis, trained on the Affymetrix GeneChip system
- DNA/RNA - General molecular biology techniques including, Southern hybridizations, PCR/RT-PCR, cloning, northern hybridizations, real-time PCR
- Protein - SDS-PAGE, Western blotting, bacterial expression, yeast two-hybrid system.
- Cell culture - Preparation of primary and secondary fibroblast cells, maintenance of lymphoblastoid cell-lines, immunofluorescent staining.
- Microscopy - Confocal microscopy, laser capture microdissection, cryosectioning.
- In vivo - Design and implementation of various in vivo trials, virus re-isolation from blood and lymphoid organs, trained in the use of BSL3 bio-containment facilities
- Chemistry - Organic synthesis, flash chromatography, thin-layer chromatography, 1H and 13C NMR, IR and UV/visible spectroscopy.
- NIH Training Fellowship: Chemistry-Biology Interface Program, 1996-2000
- Pfizer Undergraduate Research Fellow, 1995
- William H. Chandler Prize in Chemistry, 1996
- American Chemical Society Award, 1996
- American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Phi Beta Kappa
- Tau Beta Pi
- Phi Eta Sigma
J. Burnside, E.L. Bernberg, A. Anderson, C. Lu, B. Meyers, P. Green, N. Jain, G. Isaacs and R.W. Morgan. 2006. Marek's disease virus encodes microRNAs that map to meq and the latency-associated transcript. Journal of Virology 80: 8778-8786.
L.A. Cogburn, W. Carre, X Wang, T.E. Porter, Y. Nys, J. Tang, E.L. Bernberg, R. Morgan, J. Burnside. 2006. Chicken gene discovery: sequence and CAP3 analysis of 42,870 ESTs from single and multiple tissue cDNA libraries. Physiological Genomics 25: 514-524.
Morgan, RW, Anderson, AS, Bernberg, EL, Isaacs, G, Huang, E, Markis, M, Meyers, B, Green, P, and Burnside, J. The role of microRNAs in Marek's disease. 32nd International Herpesvirus Workshop, July 2007, Asheville, NC.
Morgan, RW, Anderson, AS, Bernberg, EL, Isaacs, G, Markis, M, and Burnside, J. Functions of Marek's Disease virus microRNAs. 144st AVMA/AAAP annual meeting, July 2007, Washington, DC.
Morgan, RW, Isaacs, G, Parcells, M, Markis, Milos, Anderson, AS, Bernberg, EL, Cloud-Rosenberger, S, and Rosenberger, JK. Control of contemporary Marek's disease isolates. 144st AVMA/AAAP annual meeting, July 2007, Washington, DC.
Parcells, M, Kumar, P, Hontz, P, Bernberg, EL, Anderson, AS, Isaacs, G, Morgan, RW, Rosenberger, S, and Rosenberger, JK. The MDV shedder model in the US. 4th International Workshop on the Molecular Pathogenesis of Marek's Disease Virus, August 2006, Newark DE.
Bernberg, EL, Burnside, J, Anderson, AS, Lu, C, Jain, N, Meyers, B, Green, P, and Morgan, RW. Small RNA cloning and expression in uninfected and MDV infected chick embryo fibroblasts. 4th International Workshop on the Molecular Pathogenesis of Marek's Disease Virus, August 2006, Newark DE.
Morgan, RW, Bernberg, EL, Anderson, AS, Lu, C, Meyers, B, Green, P, Jain, N, Isaacs, G and Burnside, J. Marek's disease virus microRNAs map to meq and LAT. 4th International Workshop on the Molecular Pathogenesis of Marek's Disease Virus, August 2006, Newark DE.
Burnside, J, Bernberg, EL, Anderson, AS, Lu, C, P, Jain, N, Meyers, B, Green, P, and Morgan RW. Small RNA cloning and expression in chick embryos. International Chicken Genome Consortium Conference, May 2006, Cold Spring Harbor, NY.
Yandon, M, Cogburn, A, Xu, S, Bernberg, EL, Morgan, RW, and Burnside, J. Characterization of regulated genes in chicken embryo fibroblasts with herpesvirus of turkeys. American Society for Experimental Biology, April 2005, San Diego, CA.
Bernberg, EL, Xu, S, Ouyang, M, Cogburn, A, Morgan, RW, and Burnside, J. Use of laser capture microdissection and DNA microarrays for high resolution analysis of gene expression in HVT-infected CEFs. Plant and Animal Genome XIII, January, 2005, San Diego, CA.
Burnside, J, Bernberg, EL, Xu, S, Cogburn, A, and Morgan, RW. Application of the 13K chicken cDNA microarray to high resolution analysis of host response to infection with Marek’s disease virus. Plant and Animal Genome XIII, January, 2005, San Diego, CA.
Bernberg, EL, Anderson, AS, Burnside, J and Morgan, RW. Latency associated transcripts of herpesvirus of turkeys (HVT). 141st AVMA/AAAP annual meeting, July 2004, Philadelphia, PA.
Bernberg, EL, Xu, X, Cogburn, A, Czymmek, K, Burnside, J, and Morgan, RW. Latency of herpesvirus of turkeys (HVT) and Marek’s disease virus (MDV). 7th International Symposium on Marek’s Disease, July 2004, Oxford, UK.
Anderson, AS, Isaacs, G, Bernberg, EL, Cogburn, A, Xu, X, Czymmek, K, Sondermeijer, PJA, Burnside, J, and Morgan, RW. Construction and characterization of a herpesvirus of turkeys (HVT) recombinant containing a chicken macrophage inflammatory protein-1 (MIP-1) gene. 7th International Symposium on Marek’s Disease, July 2004, Oxford, UK.
Tang, JS, Lacoste, L, Burnside, J, Martins, W, Morgan, RW, Cogburn, L, Bernberg, EL, and Gao, G-R. Clustering chicken EST data using both sequence and concept matches. Plant, Animal, Microbe Genomes X Conference, January, 2002, San Diego, CA.
