Tanya Sukonnik joined the lab with a B.Sc. from the University of Waterloo and was our resident expert on viral vectors and mouse embryonic stem cells.

She loved travelling the world and shopping as a hobby.

Next position
Technician in San Francisco

Selected Publications:
Ramunas J, Montgomery HJ, Kelly L, Sukonnik T, Ellis J, * Jervis E.* (2007) Real time fluorescence tracking of dynamic transgene variegation in stem cells. *Equal corresponding authors. Molecular Therapy. 15:810-817.

Dalle B,* Rubin J*, Alkan O, Sukonnik T, Pasceri P, Yao S, Pawliuk R, Leboulch P, Ellis J. (2005) eGFP reporter genes silence LCRβ-globin transgene expression via CpG dinucleotides. *Equal first authors. Molecular Therapy. 11:591-599.

Yao S, Sukonnik T, Kean T, Bharadwaj R, Pasceri P, Ellis J. (2004) Retrovirus silencing, variegation, memory and extinction are controlled by a dynamic interplay of multiple epigenetic modifications. Molecular Therapy. 10:27-36.

Yao S, Osborne CS, Bharadwaj R, Pasceri P, Sukonnik T, Pannell D, Recillas-Targa F, West AG, Ellis J. (2003) Retrovirus silencer-blocking by the cHS4 insulator is CTCF independent. Nucleic Acids Research. 31:5317-23.

Pannell D, Osborne CS, Yao S, Sukonnik T, Pasceri P, Karaiskakis A, Okano M, Li E, Lipshitz HD, Ellis J. (2000) Retrovirus vector silencing is de novo methylase-independent and marked by a repressive histone code. EMBO J. 19:5884-94.

Osborne CS, Pasceri P, Singal R, Sukonnik T, Ginder G, Ellis J. (1999) Amelioration of retroviral vector silencing in Locus Control Region ?-globin transgenic mice and transduced F9 embryonic cells. Journal of Virology. 73:5490-6.