ZFIN Person: van der Meulen, Talitha

ZFIN ID: ZDB-PERS-001219-2

ZFIN ID: ZDB-PERS-001219-2

van der Meulen, Talitha

Email:	tmeulen@salk.edu
URL:	http://www.salk.edu
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Address:	Salk Institute for Biological Studies Clayton Laboratories for Peptide Biology 10010 North Torrey Pines Road La Jolla, CA 92037 USA
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BIOGRAPHY AND RESEARCH INTERESTS

2000 Graduation from Wageningen University (WU) in Biology, cum laude
2005 PhD at Experimental Zoology Group at WU 'Epigenetics of the Locomotory System in Zebrafish'.
2006 Winner of the Bolk Prize for best presentation at the annual meeting of the Dutch Anatomical Society
2006 Winner of the WIAS publication prize

Interests:
Protein tryosine phosphorylation, signal transduction, GPCR signaling, pancreas biology.

PUBLICATIONS

van Leeuwen, J.L., van der Meulen, T., Schipper, H., and Kranenbarg, S. (2008) A functional analysis of myotomal muscle-fibre reorientation in developing zebrafish Danio rerio. The Journal of experimental biology. 211(Pt 8):1289-1304

van der Meulen, T., Schipper, H., van den Boogaart, J.G., Huising, M.O., Kranenbarg, S., and van Leeuwen, J.L. (2006) Endurance exercise differentially stimulates heart and axial muscle development in zebrafish (Danio rerio). American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology. 291(4):1040-1048

van der Meulen, T., Schipper, H., van Leeuwen, J.L., and Kranenbarg, S. (2005) Effects of decreased muscle activity on developing axial musculature in nicb107 mutant zebrafish (Danio rerio). The Journal of experimental biology. 208(19):3675-3687

van der Meulen, T., Kranenbarg, S., Schipper, H., Samallo, J., van Leeuwen, J.L., and Franssen, H. (2005) Identification and characterisation of two runx2 homologues in zebrafish with different expression patterns. BBA Gene Structure and Expression. 1729(2):105-117

van der Meulen, T. (2005) Epigenetics of the locomotory system in zebrafish. Ph.D. Thesis. :191p

Huising, M.O., van der Meulen, T., Flik, G., and Verburg-van Kemenade, B.M. (2004) Three novel carp CXC chemokines are expressed early in ontogeny and at nonimmune sites. European journal of biochemistry. 271(20):4094-4106

NON-ZEBRAFISH PUBLICATIONS
Huttenhuis, H. B. T., Huising, M. O., Van der Meulen, T., Van Oosterhoud, C., Alvarez Sánchez, N., Taverne-Thiele, A. J., Stroband, H.W.J., Rombout, J.H.W.M., Rag expression identifies B and T cell lymphopoietic tissues during the development of common carp (Cyprinus carpio). Dev. Comp. Imm. 2005, 29(12):1033-47