Selected Peer-reviewed Publications:

• Sagirkaya H, Misirlioglu M, Kaya H, Parrish JJ, First NL and Memili E. Developmental Potential of Bovine Oocytes Cultured in Defined Maturation Medium. (2006) Submitted.

• Misirlioglu M, Page G, Sagirkaya H, Kaya A, Parrish JJ, First NL and Memili E. (2006) Dynamics of global transcriptome in bovine matured oocytes and preimplantation embryos. Submitted.

• Sagirkaya H, Misirlioglu M, Kaya H, Parrish JJ, First NL and Memili E. Developmental and Molecular Correlates of Bovine Preimplantation Embryos. (2006) In press. Reproduction.

• Herrick JR, Lane M, Gardner DK, Behboodi E, Memili E, Blash S, Echelard Y and Krisher RL. Metabolism, protein content, and in vitro embryonic development of goat cumulus-oocyte complexes matured with physiological concentrations of glucose and L-lactate. (2006) Mol Reprod Dev 73(2):256-266.

• Behboodi E, Ayres SL, Memili E, O'Coin M, Chen LH, Reggio BC, Landry AM, Gavin WG. Meade HM, Godke RA and Echelard Y. Health and reproductive profiles of malaria antigen-producing transgenic goats derived by somatic cell nuclear transfer. (2005) Cloning Stem Cells 7(2):107-18.

• Behboodi E, Memili E , Melican D, et al. Production of transgenic goats by nuclear transfer with adult fibroblasts (2004) Transgenic Research 13(3):215-24.

• Herrick JR, Behboodi E, Memili E, Blash S, Echelard Y and Krisher RL. (2004) Effect of macromolecule supplementation during in vitro maturation of goat oocytes on developmental potential. Mol Reprod Dev 69(3):338-46.

• Memili E , Behboodi E, Overton SA, O’Coin M, Zahedi A, Meade HM, Echelard Y. Synchronization of goat fibroblast cells at quiescent stage and determination of their transition from G 0 to G 1 by detection of cyclin D 1 mRNA. (2004) Cloning and Stem Cells 6(2):58-66.

• Memili E , Hong YK, Kim DK, Ontiveros SD and Strauss WM. Murine Xist RNA isoforms are different at their 3' ends: a role for differential polyadenylation. (2001) Gene 266:131-7.

• Hong YK , Kim DH, Beletskii A, Lee C, Memili E and Strauss WM. Development of two bacterial artificial chromosome shuttle vectors for a recombination-based cloning and regulated expression of large genes in mammalian cells. (2001). Anal Biochem. 291:142-8.

• Segev H, Memili E and First NL. Expression Patterns of Histone Deacetylase-1, -2, -3, and RPD3 in Bovine Oocytes and Embryos. (2001) Zygote 9:123-33.

• Memili E and First NL. Regulation of Gene Expression During Early Bovine Embryogenesis: A Review of Timing and Mechanism as Compared to Other Species. (2000) Zygote 8:87-96.

• Memili E and First NL. Control of Gene Expression at the Onset of Bovine Embryonic Development (1999) Biology of Reproduction 61:1198-207.

• Dominko T, Mitalipova M, Haley B, Beyhan Z, Memili E , Mckusick B and First NL. Bovine Oocyte Cytoplasm Supports Development of Embryos Produced by Nuclear Transfer of Somatic Cell Nuclei from Various Mammalian Species. (1999) Biology of Reproduction 60:1496-502.

• Memili E , Dominko T and First NL. Onset of Transcription in Bovine Oocytes, 2-, 4- and 8-cell Embryos (1998). Molecular Reproduction and Development 51:36-41.

• Memili E and First NL. Developmental Changes in RNA Polymerase II in Bovine Oocytes, Early Embryos and Effect of Alpha-amanitin on Embryo Development. (1998) Molecular Reproduction and Development 51:381-389.

Selected Meeting Presentations:

• Sagirkaya H, Misirlioglu M, Kaya A, Odaman-Mercan H, First NL, Parrish J and Memili E. Development and dynamics of gene expression of bovine embryos cultured in vitro in three different media. (2006) Abstract presented at the annual meeting on the International Embryo Transfer Society (IETS) in Orlando, FL. January, 2006. Reproduction, Fertility and Development.

• Kaya A, Sagirkaya H, Misirlioglu M, Gumen A, Memili E, Parrish JJ. (2006) Effects of leptin and IGF-I on preimplantation development, DNA fragmentation and gene expression bovine embryos cultured in vitro. Abstract presented at the annual meeting on the International Embryo Transfer Society (IETS) in Orlando, FL. January, 2006. Reproduction, Fertility and Development.

• Sagirkaya H, Misirlioglu M, Kaya A, Odaman H, First NL, Parrish J and Memili E Developmental potential of bovine oocytes cultured in defined maturation media. (2005). Abstract presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Reproduction (SSR) in Quebec City, July, 2005. Biol Reprod. Special issue July, 2005.

• Odaman H, Misirlioglu M, Sagirkaya H, Crenshaw M and Memili E. Embryonic Genome activation in porcine. (2005) Abstract presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Cell Biology in San Francisco, December 2005. Molecular Biology of the Cell December 2005 abstract issue.

• Herrick JR, Behboodi E, Memili E, Blash S, Echelard Y, Krisher RL. Effect of macromolecule supplementation during in vitro maturation on the developmental competence of goat oocytes. (2004) Reproduction, Fertility and Development 16(1,2):276.

• Behboodi E, Ayres SL, Memili E, O’Coin M, Chen LM, Meade HM, Echelard Y. Health and reproductive profiles of nuclear transfer goats producing the MSP1-142 malaria antigen. (2004) E. Reproduction, Fertility and Development 16(1,2):137.

• Behboodi E, Memili E, Ayres SL, O’Coin M, Meade HM, Chen HM, Echelard Y. Comparison of the developmental potential of caprine nuclear transfer embryos derived from in vitro and in vivo matured ooyctes. (2004) Reproduction, Fertility and Development 16(1,2):140.

• Memili E , Behboodi E, O’Coin M, Meade HM, Echelard Y. Epigenetic characteristics of bovine and caprine embryos and donor cells used for nuclear transfer. (2004) Reproduction, Fertility and Development 16(1,2):152.

• Health and reproductive profiles of nuclear transfer goats producing the MSP1-142 malaria antigen. (2004) Behboodi E, Ayres SL, Memili E , O’Coin M, Chen LM, Meade HM, Echelard Y. E. Reproduction, Fertility and Development 16(1,2):137.

• Comparison of the developmental potential of caprine nuclear transfer embryos derived from in vitro and in vivo matured ooyctes. (2004) Behboodi E, Memili E , Ayres SL, O’Coin M, Meade HM, Chen HM, Echelard Y. Reproduction, Fertility and Development 16(1,2):140.

• Epigenetic characteristics of bovine and caprine embryos and donor cells used for nuclear transfer. Memili E , Behboodi E, O’Coin M, Meade HM, Echelard Y. (2004) Reproduction, Fertility and Development 16(1,2):152.

• Application of embryo cloning to the generation of transgenic founder goats. (2003) Behboodi E, Memili E , Ayres SL, O’Coin M, Chen LH, Meade HM, Echelard Y. Theriogenology 59:237.

• Synchronization of goat fibroblast cells at quiescent stage and determination of their transition from G0 to G1 by detection of cyclin D1 mRNA. (2003) Memili E , Behboodi E, Overton SA, O’Coin M, Zahedi A, Meade HM, Echelard Y. Theriogenology 59: 74.

• Williams JL, Pollock DP, Hawkins N, Memili E , Gavin WG, Meade HM, Echelard Y. (2002) A case of X-inactivation induced by transgene location. Theriogenology 57(1):785.

• Inheritance of Y-linked deletions in infertile males: Cryptic mosaicism as a new etiology of idiopathic male infertility. (2001) Kent-First MG, Muallem A, Memili E , Osredkar T, Pryor J, Roberts K, Nolten W, Chandley A, Itskovitz J, and Kol S. Human Reproduction (Oxford) 16:84.

• Regulation of gene expression in bovine zygotes and 2-cell embryos cultured in vitro. (1999). Memili E , Segev H and First NL. The FASEB Journal 13(7):666.