Contact Information
Office: DRP 2.808Phone: 495-3001
Lab
Phone: 495-3008Richard Finnell
rfinnell@austin.utexas.eduResearch Group
http://www.he.utexas.edu/facstaff.php?id=122
Representative Publications
Gray, R.S., Abitua, P.B., Wlodarczyk, B.J., Blanchard, O., Lee, I., Weiss, G., Marcotte, E.M., Wallingford, J.B., and Finnell, R.H. 2009. The planar cell polarity effector protein Fuzzy is essential for targeted membrane trafficking, ciliogenesis, and mouse embryonic development. Nat. Cell Biol. 11:1225-1234. PMCID: PMC2755648
Obican SG, Finnell RH, Mills JL, Shaw GM, Scialli AR. 2010. Folic acid in early pregnancy: a public health success story. FASEB J. 24(11):4167-4174. PMID: 20631328
Salojin KV, Cabrera RM, Sun W, Chang WC, Lin C, Duncan L, Platt KA, Read R, Vogel P, Liu Q, Finnell RH, Oravecz T. 2011. A mouse model of hereditary folate malabsorption: deletion of the PCFT gene leads to systemic folate deficiency. Blood. 117(18):4895-4904. PMID: 21346251
Boyles, AL, Ballard, JL, Gorman, EB, McConnaughey, DR, Cabrera, RM, Wilcox, AJ, Lie, RT and Finnell, RH. 2011. Association between inhibited binding of folic acid to folate receptor alpha in maternal serum and folate related birth defects in Norway. Hum. Reprod. 26(8):2232-2238. PMID 21576080
Ren A., Qiu X., Jin L., Ma J., Zhang L., Zhu H., Finnell R.H., and Zhu T. 2011. Association of selected persistent organic pollutants in the placenta with the risk of neural tube defects. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. Jul 18. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 21768370.