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Hire Dr. Michael S.

United States

Profile Summary

I am trained as an organismal biologist. In my academic work, I am specifically interested in the physiology and evolution of the complex neural and genetic systems underlying animal behavior, specifically social behavior, disposition toward suites of behavior, and voluntary physical exercise. On Kolabtree, I anticipate that I can help with big data analysis, literature searches, experimental design, and statistical review. I am an expert R programmer, I am strong in data visualization, and I have deep experience in UNIX and in cluster computing. I have specific expertise in genomics, behavior, and neurobiology. In addition, I am a capable wet lab scientist with experience in real-time PCR assay design and optimization, SNP genotyping, western blotting, and related skills.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ☆ Biology/Life Sciences
• ☆ Animal Behavior/Ethology
• ☆ Animal Genetics
• ☆ Biochemical Assays
• ☆ Genetics
• ☆ PCR
• ☆ Neurobiology
• ☆ Biotechnology & Bioengineering
• ☆ Cluster Analysis
• ☆ Data Visualization
• ☆ Big Data Analytics
• ☆ Blotting
• ☆ Behavioral Genetics

Services

• Writing
• Consulting
• Data & AI
• Product Development

Work Experience

Research Scientist

The Jackson Laboratory

June 2019 - Present

Postdoctoral Associate

The Jackson Laboratory

August 2018 - June 2019

GNDP Theme Postdoctoral Fellow

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

June 2014 - July 2018

Education

PhD (Zoology)

University of Wisconsin-Madison

August 2010 - May 2014

BS (Biology)

University of Iowa

2003 - 2008

BA (Religious Studies)

University of Iowa

2003 - 2007

Certifications

• Certification details not provided.

Publications

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Michael C. Saul, Jared R. Bagley, Lauren S. Bailey, Udita Datta, Price E. Dickson, Rainy Dodd, Leona H. Gagnon, Spencer B. Hugett, Violet M. Kimble, Michael Leonardo, et al.(2020). Consideration of genetic and sex effects in mice enhances consilience with human addiction studies . Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Michael C. Saul, Charles Blatti, Wei Yang, Syed Abbas Bukhari, Hagai Y. Shpigler, Joseph M. Troy, Christopher H. Seward, Laura Sloofman, Sriram Chandrasekaran, Alison M. Bell, et al.(2017). Cross-species systems analysis of evolutionary toolkits of neurogenomic response to social challenge . Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

(2017). Cross-species systems analysis of evolutionary toolkits of neurogenomic response to social challenge . Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

JOURNAL ARTICLE

(2019). Neurogenomic insights into paternal care and its relation to territorial aggression . Nature communications.

(2019). High-Diversity Mouse Populations for Complex Traits . Trends in genetics : TIG.

(2018). Honey bee neurogenomic responses to affiliative and agonistic social interactions . Genes, brain, and behavior.

(2018). Striatal transcriptome of a mouse model of ADHD reveals a pattern of synaptic remodeling . PloS one.

(2018). Cross-species systems analysis of evolutionary toolkits of neurogenomic response to social challenge . Genes, brain, and behavior.

(2018). Genomic variants in an inbred mouse model predict mania-like behaviors . PloS one.

Michael C. Saul, Sanbing Shen, Sharon A. Stevenson, Changjiu Zhao, Terri M. Driessen, Brian E. Eisinger, Stephen C. Gammie (2018). Genomic variants in an inbred mouse model predict mania-like behaviors . PLOS ONE.

(2018). Biological/Genetic Regulation of Physical Activity Level: Consensus from GenBioPAC . Medicine and science in sports and exercise.

Hagai Y. Shpigler, Michael C. Saul, Emma E. Murdoch, Frida Corona, Amy C. Cash-Ahmed, Christopher H. Seward, Sriram Chandrasekaran, Lisa J. Stubbs, Gene E. Robinson(2018). Honey bee neurogenomic responses to affiliative and agonistic social interactions . Genes, Brain and Behavior. 18. (1). p. e12509. Wiley

(2017). Deep evolutionary conservation of autism-related genes . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

Syed Abbas Bukhari, David Clayton, Michael C. Saul, Christopher H. Seward, Huimin Zhang, Miles Bensky, Noelle James, Sihai Dave Zhao, Sriram Chandrasekaran, Lisa Stubbs, et al. (2017). Temporal dynamics of neurogenomic plasticity in response to social interactions in male threespined sticklebacks . PLOS Genetics.

(2017). Behavioral, transcriptomic and epigenetic responses to social challenge in honey bees . Genes, brain, and behavior.

(2017). Transcriptional regulatory dynamics drive coordinated metabolic and neural response to social challenge in mice . Genome Research.

(2017). High motivation for exercise is associated with altered chromatin regulators of monoamine receptor gene expression in the striatum of mice from selectively bred lines . Genes, Brain and Behavior.

(2016). Genetic and neuroendocrine regulation of the postpartum brain . Frontiers in neuroendocrinology.

(2016). MicroRNA expression is altered in lateral septum across reproductive stages . Neuroscience.

Mitchell, Chelsea L and Saul, Michael C and Lei, Liang and Wei, Hairong and Werner, Thomas(2014). The Mechanisms Underlying α-Amanitin Resistance in Drosophila melanogaster: A Microarray Analysis . PLoS ONE.

Driessen, Terri and Eisinger, Brian E and Zhao, Changjiu and Stevenson, Sharon A and Saul, Michael C and Gammie, Stephen C(2014). Genes showing altered expression in the medial preoptic area in the highly social maternal phenotype are related to autism and other disorders with social deficits . BMC Neuroscience.

Eisinger, Brian E and Saul, Michael C and Driessen, Terri M and Gammie, Stephen C(2013). Development of a versatile enrichment analysis tool reveals associations between the maternal brain and mental health disorders, including autism . BMC Neuroscience.

Saul, Michael C and Stevenson, Sharon A and Gammie, Stephen C(2013). Sexually Dimorphic, Developmental, and Chronobiological Behavioral Profiles of a Mouse Mania Model . PLoS ONE.

Eisinger, Brian E and Zhao, Changjiu and Driessen, Terri M and Saul, Michael C and Gammie, Stephen C(2013). Large Scale Expression Changes of Genes Related to Neuronal Signaling and Developmental Processes Found in Lateral Septum of Postpartum Outbred Mice . PLoS ONE.

Zhao, Changjiu and Saul, Michael C and Driessen, Terri and Gammie, Stephen C(2012). Gene Expression Changes in the Septum: Possible Implications for MicroRNAs in Sculpting the Maternal Brain . PLoS ONE.

Saul, Michael C and Gessay, Griffin M and Gammie, Stephen C(2012). A New Mouse Model for Mania Shares Genetic Correlates with Human Bipolar Disorder . PLoS ONE.

DISSERTATION THESIS

Saul, Michael C(2014). A Complex Mania Model: The Behavior, Molecules, and Genotype of the Madison Mouse Strain.