Dr. Cameron Osborne – Postdoctoral Fellow, 1996-2000

Cameron Osborne obtained his B.Sc. from Simon Fraser University in Vancouver BC and his PhD at the University of Adelaide, Australia. His postdoctoral research was funded by a Thalassemia Foundation of Ontario Fellowship. His work in the Ellis lab was the starting point for our interest in retrovirus and lentivirus vector silencing.

He was a keen Mountain Biker who rode some 24-hour relay races while in Toronto.

Next position
PDF at Babraham Institute, Cambridge UK

Selected Publications
Osborne CS, Chakalova L, Brown KE, Carter D, Horton A, Debrand E, Goyenechea B, Miitchell HA, Lopes S, Reik W, Fraser P. (2004) Active genes dynamically colocalize to shared sites of ongoing transcription. Nature Genetics. 36(10):1065-71.

Yao S, Osborne CS, Bharadwaj RR, Pasceri P, Sukonnik T, Pannell D, Recillas-Targa F, West AG, Ellis J. (2003) Retrovirus silencer blocking by the cHS4 insulator is CTCF independent. NAR. 31:18 5317-5323.

Carter D, Chkalova L, Osborne CS, Dai YF, Fraser P. (2002) Long-range chromatin regulatory interactions in vivo. Nature Genetics. 32:4 623-626.

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. 19: 5884-5894.

Osborne CS, Pasceri P, Singal R, Sukonnik T, Ginder GD, Ellis J. (1999) Amelioration of Retroviral Vector Silencing in Locus Control Region Beta-Globin-Transgenic Mice and Transduced F9 Embryonic Cells. Journal of Virology. 73: 5490-5496.