Leslie Pick Entomology Department University of Maryland Biography Publications Institution JoVE Articles Leslie Pick has not added a biography. If you are Leslie Pick and would like to personalize this page please email our Author Liaison for assistance. Publications Activation of Ftz-F1-Responsive Genes Through Ftz/Ftz-F1 Dependent Enhancers PloS One. 2016 | Pubmed ID: 27723822 Editorial Overview: Development, Regulation and Evolution of Organ Systems Current Opinion in Insect Science. Feb, 2016 | Pubmed ID: 27436561 Evo-Devo: Discovery of Diverse Mechanisms Regulating Development Current Topics in Developmental Biology. 2016 | Pubmed ID: 26969982 Hox Genes, Evo-devo, and the Case of the Ftz Gene Chromosoma. Jun, 2016 | Pubmed ID: 26596987 Dermestes Maculatus: an Intermediate-germ Beetle Model System for Evo-devo EvoDevo. 2015 | Pubmed ID: 26478804 Rapid Transcriptome Sequencing of an Invasive Pest, the Brown Marmorated Stink Bug Halyomorpha Halys BMC Genomics. Aug, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 25168586 Independent Signaling by Drosophila Insulin Receptor for Axon Guidance and Growth Frontiers in Physiology. 2013 | Pubmed ID: 24478707 The Evolving Role of the Orphan Nuclear Receptor Ftz-f1, a Pair-rule Segmentation Gene Evolution & Development. Nov-Dec, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 24261442 Insulin Stimulates Translocation of Human GLUT4 to the Membrane in Fat Bodies of Transgenic Drosophila Melanogaster PloS One. 2013 | Pubmed ID: 24223128 Variation and Constraint in Hox Gene Evolution Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. Feb, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23341600 Functional Conservation of Drosophila FTZ-F1 and Its Mammalian Homologs Suggests Ligand-independent Regulation of NR5A Family Transcriptional Activity Development Genes and Evolution. May, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23340581 Conservation and Variation in Hox Genes: How Insect Models Pioneered the Evo-devo Field Annual Review of Entomology. 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23317041 Hox Gene Evolution: Multiple Mechanisms Contributing to Evolutionary Novelties Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. May, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 22320178 Ftz Evolution: Findings, Hypotheses and Speculations (response to DOI 10.1002/bies.201100019) BioEssays : News and Reviews in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology. Dec, 2011 | Pubmed ID: 22113740 Rapid Isolation of Gene Homologs Across Taxa: Efficient Identification and Isolation of Gene Orthologs from Non-model Organism Genomes, a Technical Report EvoDevo. Mar, 2011 | Pubmed ID: 21362165 Surprising Flexibility in a Conserved Hox Transcription Factor over 550 Million Years of Evolution Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. Oct, 2010 | Pubmed ID: 20921393 The POU Transcription Factor Drifter/Ventral Veinless Regulates Expression of Drosophila Immune Defense Genes Molecular and Cellular Biology. Jul, 2010 | Pubmed ID: 20457811 Deletion of Drosophila Insulin-like Peptides Causes Growth Defects and Metabolic Abnormalities Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. Nov, 2009 | Pubmed ID: 19887630 Stripy Ftz Target Genes Are Coordinately Regulated by Ftz-F1 Developmental Biology. Nov, 2009 | Pubmed ID: 19679121 Isolation of Regulators of Drosophila Immune Defense Genes by a Double Interaction Screen in Yeast Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Mar, 2007 | Pubmed ID: 17296495 Computational Identification of Ftz/Ftz-F1 Downstream Target Genes Developmental Biology. Nov, 2006 | Pubmed ID: 16996052 Transgenic Drosophila Models of Noonan Syndrome Causing PTPN11 Gain-of-function Mutations Human Molecular Genetics. Feb, 2006 | Pubmed ID: 16399795 Cofactor-interaction Motifs and the Cooption of a Homeotic Hox Protein into the Segmentation Pathway of Drosophila Melanogaster Current Biology : CB. Apr, 2005 | Pubmed ID: 15823536 Axons Guided by Insulin Receptor in Drosophila Visual System Science (New York, N.Y.). Apr, 2003 | Pubmed ID: 12702880 Rearing and Double-stranded RNA-mediated Gene Knockdown in the Hide Beetle, Dermestes maculatus Jie Xiang1,2, Katie Reding1, Leslie Pick1,2 1Entomology Department, University of Maryland, 2Program in Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Maryland JoVE 54976 Genetics
Rearing and Double-stranded RNA-mediated Gene Knockdown in the Hide Beetle, Dermestes maculatus Jie Xiang1,2, Katie Reding1, Leslie Pick1,2 1Entomology Department, University of Maryland, 2Program in Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Maryland JoVE 54976 Genetics