Google Scholar Profile 2018 Mack KL, Ballinger MA, Phifer-Rixey M, & Nachman MW. 2018. Gene regulation underlies environmental adaptation in house mice. Genome Research, 28(11): 1636-1645. [link]
Ballinger MA & Andrews MT. 2018. Nature's fat burning machine: brown adipose tissue in a hibernating mammal. Journal of Experimental Biology, 221(supp 1): jeb162586. [link]
Ballinger MA & Noor MAF. 2018. Are lethal alleles too abundant in humans? Trends in Genetics, 34(2): 87-89. [link]
2017 Ballinger MA, Schwartz C, & Andrews MT. 2017. Enhanced oxidative capacity of ground squirrel brain mitochondria during hibernation. American Journal of Physiology, 312: R301-R310. [link]
2016 Ballinger MA, Hess C, Napolitano MW, Bjork JA, & Andrews MT. 2016. Seasonal changes in brown adipose tissue mitochondria in a mammalian hibernator: from gene expression to function. American Journal of Physiology, 311: R325-R336. [link]
2015 Schwartz C, Ballinger MA, & Andrews MT. 2015. Melatonin receptor signaling contributes to neuroprotection upon arousal from torpor in thirteen-lined ground squirrels. American Journal of Physiology, 309: R292-R300. [link]
Mallory A. Ballinger
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology - University of California, Berkeley 3101 Valley Life Sciences Building Berkeley, CA 94720-3160
April 2019 Many thanks to the MVZ for their graduate student research support. I have recently been awarded both a Wilhem L.F. Marten's Fund and a Junea W. Kelly Fellowship for the upcoming year. Thank you so much! January 2019 Enjoyed sunny and warm Tampa, Florida for the annual SICB meeting! October 2018 Had a blast collaborating with Katya Mack on our recent Genome Research paper! We identified cis-eQTL underlying clinal adaptation in house mice. May 2018 I am thrilled to have received a GIAR from the American Society of Mammalogists! This small grant will help fund my dissertation project on environmental adaptation in deer mice and house mice. Thank you, ASM! March 2018 Very fortunate to have had the opportunity to contribute to JEB's Special Issue on "The Biology of Fat". Matt Andrews and I wrote a review on brown adipose tissue in mammalian hibernators. And thanks to Kathryn Knight for the nice synopsis of our work! January 2018 The Nachman lab is in incredibly fortunate to have Mohamed Noor visiting us while on sabbatical. I've had an absolute pleasure hanging out with Mohamed over the past few months, talking science and enjoying Bay Area cuisine. Mohamed and I collaborated on a small project, highlighting a recent article on the role of lethal alleles in natural populations. Check out our Trends in Genetics Spotlight here!
