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Dr. F. Abel Ponce de Leon

F. Abel Ponce de León
Professor, and Senior Associate Dean for
Research and Graduate Programs

Department of Animal Science
422 Haecker Hall
1364 Eckles Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55108-6118
Telephone: 612-624-2299
Email: apl@umn.edu

Education

  • Post Doctoral, Amherst College
  • Ph.D., University of Massachusetts
  • M.S., University of Massachusetts

Awards

  • Sigma Xi
  • Ben Hansen Foundation Scholarship, 1978-1980
  • Nomination for the "Distinguished Teacher Award," University of Massachusetts, 1974
  • Latin American Scholarship Program of American Universities, 1972-1974
  • Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 1999

Professional Activities

  • Editorial Board, Animal Biotechnology
  • Associate Editor, Journal of Poultry Science
  • Reviewer, Journal of Heredity, Biochemical Genetics, Animal Genetics, Mammalian Genome, and Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics, USDA/NRICGP
  • Member, American Association for the Advancement of Science, AAAS
  • Member, American Genetic Association, AGA
  • Member, International Society for Animal Genetics, ISAG
  • Member, American Society of Animal Science, ASAS
  • Member, Poultry Science Association, PSA
  • Member, Latin American Society of Animal Science, ALPA
  • Member, Sigma Xi
  • Member, NC1010, Interpreting cattle genomic data: Biology, applications and outreach
  • Member, NC1008, Advanced technologies for the genetic improvement of poultry
  • Member, NRSP008, National Animal Genome Research Program
  • Member, NCA-6, Departments of Dairy, Poultry and Animal Science Administrators

Publications (2005-2009)

- Refereed Articles -

Pérez-Pardal, L., J. Roy, I. Alvarez, F.A. Ponce de León, I. Fernández, R. Casais, and F. Goyache. 2009. Female segregation patterns of the putative Y-chromosome-specific microsatellite markers INRA124 and INRA126 do not support their use for cattle population studies. Animal Genetics (online publication doi:10.1111/j.1365-2052.2009.01870.x.

Wang A, H. Yasue, L. Li, M. Takashima, F.A. Ponce de León, and W.-S. Liu. 2008.  Molecular characterization of the bovine chromodomain Y-like genes. Animal Genetics 39:207-216.

Liu, W.-S. and F.A. Ponce de León. 2007. Mapping of the bovine Y chromosome. Electronic Journal of Biology 3(1):5-12.

Liu, W.-S., A. Wang, Y. Uno, D. Galitz, C.W. Beattie, and F.A. Ponce de León. 2007. Genomic structure and transcript variants of the bovine DAZL gene. Cytogenet Genome Res. 116:65-71.

Huang, Y.Q., X.M. Deng, Z-Q. Du, X. Qiu, X. Du, W. Chen, M. Morrison, S. Leroux, F.A. Ponce de León, Y. Da, and N. Li. 2006. Single nucleotide polymorphisms in the chicken Lmbr 1 gene are associated with chicken polydactyly. Gene 374:10-18.

Reed, K.M., L.R. Sullivan, L.K. Foster, L.D. Chaves, and F.A.Ponce de León. 2006. Assignment of linkage groups to turkey chromosome 1 (MGA1). Cytogenetic and Genome Res. 115 (2):176-178.

Benkel, B.F., T. Nguyen, Y. Uno, F.A. Ponce de León, and D.A. Hickey. 2005. Structural organization and chromosomal location of the chicken alpha-amylase gene family. Gene. Dec. 5;362:117-24.

Li, G.H., W.S. Liu, A. Takasuga, T. Watanabe, C.M. Carpio, A. Rink, Y. Sugimoto, F.A. Ponce de León, amd C.W. Beattie. 2005. Characterization and RH mapping of bovine microsatellites generated from a microdissected BTA20-specific DNA library. Anim. Genet. 36(2):146-51.
 

Earlier Publications

 

College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences
  

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