Mark Baguma-Nibasheka, Ph.D. (Research Associate, Dalhousie University, Canada)

Laboratory of Sandra Moreno, Ph.D. (Associate Professor, University of Rome III, Italy)

Laboratory of Mirna Saraga-Babic, M.D., Ph.D., (Professor, University of Split, Croatia)

Dear Researcher,
I am a Mouse Pathologist, and I offer consulting within my expertise. I have a medical degree, good knowledge of human pathology, long experience in teaching human histology and embryology and, finally, almost 30 years of experience phenotyping a large variety of genetically engineered mice. PubMed search using “Kablar B” will retrieve 57 publications that may give you a better idea of my expertise; (Scopus shows 60 “documents,” 2,807 citations and h-index of 24 on January 25, 2022; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1451-3336.)

After a productive postdoctoral training with Dr. Michael A. Rudnicki (Director, OHRI), I was invited by Dr. Nadia A. Rosenthal, the Scientific Director of JAX, to serve as a visiting Mouse Pathologist at the EMBL outstation near Rome (2003-2012, including a sabbatical).

Dr. Rosenthal, Dr. Steve Brown (Director, MRC Harwell), Dr. Janet Rossant (Chief of Research Emeritus, Sick Kids), and others have been instrumental in creating the IMPC (International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium). The IMPC “is an international infrastructure aiming at identifying the function of every gene in the mouse genome… (by) phenotyping mouse knockout lines for all 20,000 or so protein-coding genes. This is achieved by phenotypically characterizing mice mutants and controls, with the aim of increasing our understanding about organism development and gene function and identifying models for human disease.”

I designed my research projects to maximally benefit from the IMPC. In fact, the IMPC is “my lab,” in addition to various databases, such as: NCBI-GEO, EMBL-EBI IntAct Cytoscape, GXD, etc. Since I have an interest in mouse phenotyping employing histology and embryology, I would be happy to discuss various details regarding mouse tissue analyses, especially during its prenatal development. Just like the IMPC, my offer is free and with no strings attached. My goal is to share my knowledge and thinking with you, to help you read your slides, interpret your pictures, design your experiments, and finally to contribute to our understanding of gene function.

Sincerely yours,

Boris Kablar, MD, PhD
Professor
Medical Neuroscience/Anatomy and Pathology
Office/Lab: Tupper 13O02
Dalhousie University
Halifax, NS CANADA
bkablar@dal.ca