Mark V. Reedy, PhD

Senior Faculty Director, Pre-Professional Advising

Associate Professor

M Reedy

Contact

mreedy@creighton.edu
College of Arts and Sciences
Graduate School
Neuroscience (Master of Science)
Biology
HLSB - Hixson Lied Science Building - G06

Mark V. Reedy, PhD

Senior Faculty Director, Pre-Professional Advising

Associate Professor

I am interested in the factors that guide cell and tissue movements during embryonic development since his undergraduate days at the University of Kansas.  Much of my work has focused on a population of cells called neural crest cells and the mechanisms they use to follow the correct path as they migrate extensively throughout the early embryo.  More recently, I have been using avian embryos as a model system for studying the mechanisms behind nicotine-induced birth defects.  I  joined the Creighton faculty in 2001 and became department chair in 2009. Prior to that, I was a postdoctoral research fellow at The M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, and earned my Ph.D. from the University of California at Davis.  

Research Focus

cell and tissue differentiation and morphogenesis during vertebrate development

Department

Biology

Position

Associate Professor

Books

  • The Pigmentary System : Physiology and Pathophysiology: Second Edition
    Parichy David M., Regulation of Melanoblast Migration and Differentiation [Book Chapter] 2007
  • Reedy Mark Vincent, Melanocyte patterns in avian embryos : lineage specification as a regulator of neural crest morphogenesis 1998

Publications

  • The FASEB journal
    Haroon Zoha, Identification of nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunit expression in early avian embryos
    27:S1 2013
  • Anatomical Record
    Patterson Rachel A., MT2-MMP expression during early avian morphogenesis
    296:1, p. 64 - 70 2013
  • Illumina Biological Content - unstructured
    James Anne, EFFECT OF TIMP-2 ON NEURAL CREST PATHFINDING 2012
  • The FASEB journal
    James Anne Elizabeth, Effect of TIMP‐2 in trunk neural crest pathfinding
    25, p. 482.4 - 482.4 2011
  • The FASEB journal
    Brauer Philip R, Effect of Low Doses of Nicotine on Early Avian Development
    24:S1, p. 450.4 - 450.4 2010
  • The FASEB journal
    Brauer Philip R., Effects of nicotine on avian neural crest migration and embryonic development
    23:S1 2009
  • Developmental Dynamics
    Heidenreich David J., Homocysteine enhances cardiac neural crest cell attachment in vitro by increasing intracellular calcium levels
    237:8, p. 2117 - 2128 2008
  • The FASEB journal
    Brauer Philip R, A MMP‐independent role for TIMP‐2 during cardiac neural crest cell migration
    22:S1 2008
  • Molecular and Cellular Biology
    Gould Douglas B., Mutant myocilin nonsecretion in vivo is not sufficient to cause glaucoma
    26:22, p. 8427 - 8436 2006
  • Developmental Dynamics
    Cantemir Veronica, Tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase-2 (TIMP-2) expression during cardiac neural crest cell migration and its role in proMMP-2 activation
    231:4, p. 709 - 719 2004
  • Developmental Dynamics
    Tierney Brent J., Homocysteine inhibits cardiac neural crest cell formation and morphogenesis in vivo
    229:1, p. 63 - 73 2004
  • Current Biology
    Cole Douglas G., Algal Morphogenesis
    13:19, p. R770 - R772 2003
  • Gene Expression Patterns
    Reedy Mark V., The expression patterns of c-kit and Sl in the chicken embryos suggest unexpected roles for these genes in somite and limb development
    3:1, p. 53 - 58 2003
  • Molecular and Cellular Biology
    Byong Su Kim Su Kim, Targeted disruption of the myocilin gene (Myoc) suggests that human glaucoma-causing mutations are gain of function
    21:22, p. 7707 - 7713 2001
  • Development
    Kos R., The winged-helix transcription factor FoxD3 is important for establishing the neural crest lineage and repressing melanogenesis in avian embryos
    128:8, p. 1467 - 1479 2001
  • Developmental Dynamics
    Reedy Mark V., Specification and migration of melanoblasts at the vagal level and in hyperpigmented Silkie chickens
    213:4, p. 476 - 485 1998
  • Developmental Biology
    Reedy Mark V., The delayed entry of thoracic neural crest cells into the dorsolateral path is a consequence of the late emigration of melanogenic neural crest cells from the neural tube
    200:2, p. 234 - 246 1998
  • Current topics in developmental biology
    Erickson C. A., Neural crest development
    40, p. 177 - 209 1998

Other

  • Improving the Teaching of Undergraduate Teaching Assistants

  • Improving the Teaching of Undergraduate Teaching Assistants

  • Improving the Teaching of Undergraduate Teaching Assistants

  • Improving the Teaching of Undergraduate Teaching Assistants

  • Improving the Teaching of Undergraduate Teaching Assistants

  • Improving the Teaching of Undergraduate Teaching Assistants

Awards

  • Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Award for Teaching Achievement
    Creighton University Students Union
  • Distinguished Service Faculty Award
    Creighton University
  • Service to Youth Award
    Bellevue Public Schools, Bellevue NE
  • College Award for Outstanding Major Advising
    College of Arts and Sciences