John Bermingham

John Bermingham obtained a B.A. in Biology from Yale, and a Ph.D. from the University of Colorado, Boulder, where he studied the homeotic gene Antennapedia in Matthew Scott’s lab.  Following a year of postdoctoral work on the Factor VIII coagulation gene in Jane Gitschier’s lab at UCSF, John moved to Geof Rosenfeld’s lab at UCSD, where he studied SR splicing factors, and generated mice that lack the transcription factor Oct-6(Pou3f1; SCIP; Tst1).  He found that these mice display specific CNS defects and a delay in peripheral myelination. In his own laboratory at the McLaughlin Research Institute in Great Falls, MT, John obtained NIH funding to study Oct6 target genes in peripheral nerve.