Associate Professor Peter Dearden
Director Genetics Otago & Senior Lecturer, Department of Biochemistry
Peter was trained at Victoria University, PhD at Imperial College, University of London. Peter then worked in the Wellcome (now Gurdon) institute and the Museum of Zoology, University of Cambridge; the Zoology department, University of Western Ontario; and returned to New Zealand and the University of Otago in 2002. Peter is a researcher in the Laboratory for Evolution and Development, Otago site leader for the National Research Centre for Growth and Development, and Scientific Director of Genetics Otago. Peter's research is centered in Evolution and Development, Epigenetics and Developmental plasticity.
For more information on Peter: http://www.otago.ac.nz/biochemistry/deardenlab
Teaching
Peter is the course coordinator for GENE 314 Developmental Genetics.
Recent Publications
Wilson MJ, Dearden PK. (2009) Tailless patterning functions are conserved in the honeybee even in the absence of Torso signaling. Dev Biol. 2009 Sep 6. [Epub ahead of print]
Peter K. Dearden, Elizabeth J. Duncan, and Megan J. Wilson. (2009) The Honeybee Apis mellifera Emerging Model Organisms II Cold spring Harbor Laboratory Press
Duncan, E.J., Wilson, M.J., Smith, J.M. & Dearden, P.K. Evolutionary origin and genomic organisation of runt-domain containing genes in arthropods. Bmc Genomics 9 (2008).
Wilson, M.J. & Dearden, P.K. Evolution of the insect Sox genes. Bmc Evolutionary Biology 8 (2008).
Young, J.M., Dearden, P.K .et al. The activin receptor-like kinase 6 Booroola mutation enhances suppressive effects of bone morphogenetic protein 2 (BMP2), BMP4, BMP6 and growth and differentiation factor-9 on FSH release from ovine primary pituitary cell cultures. Journal of Endocrinology 196, 251-261 (2008).
Specht, D., Dearden, P.K. et al. Effects of Presynaptic Mutations on a Postsynaptic Cacna1s Calcium Channel Colocalized with mGluR6 at Mouse Photoreceptor Ribbon Synapses. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science 50, 505-515 (2009).
"I work on bees..."