Linda Mayernik
Biography
Linda Mayernik earned a B.S. in Biology at Hillsdale College and an M.S. from the Wayne State University School of Medicine in the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology. Her graduate work investigated the roles of integrins in the peri-implantation mouse blastocyst, utilizing both electron microscopy and confocal microscopy in her research. With the establishment of the MICR (Microscopy, Imaging, Cytometry Research) Core, Linda was the first research assistant to join Dr. Moin in October of 1996. She and Dr. Moin began with one confocal microscope (the LSM 310) and eventually expanded to the multi-modal core facility the MICR is today.
Linda left the core in 2002 to care for her growing family and returned in 2013 to a much-evolved laboratory that now included a Flow Cytometry branch as well as a Small Animal Imaging Core. Her current expertise includes overseeing 6 confocal microscopes as well as assisting in the establishment of the new Electron Microscopy Core. Linda’s responsibilities include training faculty, staff and students on the instruments, image analysis, consultation of experimental design, billing of clients, website maintenance, and trouble-shooting experimental and microscopy challenges.
Publications
Disrupted intercellular bridges and spermatogenesis in fatty acyl-CoA reductase 1 knockout mice: A new model of ether lipid deficiency
FASEB Journal · Apr 11, 2023
Acidosis and proteolysis in the tumor microenvironment
Cancer Metastasis Review · May 8, 2019
Trophoblast adhesion of the peri-implantation mouse blastocyst is regulated by integrin signaling that targets phospholipase C
Developmental Biology · Feb 1, 2007
Integrin signaling regulates blastocyst adhesion to fibronectin at implantation: intracellular calcium transients and vesicle trafficking in primary trophoblast cells
Developmental Biology · May 1, 2002
Acceleration of trophoblast differentiation by heparin-binding EGF-like growth factor is dependent on the stage-specific activation of calcium influx by ErbB receptors in developing mouse blastocysts
Development · Jan 1, 2000
Integrin trafficking regulates adhesion to fibronectin during differentiation of mouse peri-implantation blastocysts
Developmental Genetics · Jan 1, 1997