Trish Berger
Professor of Animal Science
tberger@ucdavis.edu


Office
2147 Meyer Hall
752-1267


Picture of Trish Berger
 
Degrees:
1980 PhD Purdue University Animal Science
1977 MS Purdue University Animal Science
1975 BA University of Kansas Biochemistry
Research Interests:

Fertilization emphasizing receptor-ligands involved in sperm-oocyte plasma membrane interactions; subfertility and reproductive toxicant models.
Department and Center Affiliations:
Animal Science
Professional Societies:
American Society of Cell Biology
Society for the Study of Reproduction
CBS Graduate Group Affiliations:
Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Physiology  
Biochemistry, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology  
Graduate Groups not Housed in CBS:
Animal Biology  
Publications:
  • Berger T, McCarthy, M, Pearl CA, At-Taras E, Roser JF, Conley, A. (2007) Reducing endogenous estrogens during the neonatal and juvenile periods affects reproductive tract development and sperm production in postpuberal boars. Animal Reproduction Science doi:10.1016/j.anireprosci.2007.10.003
  • Wu, KL and Berger, T. (2008) Ovarian gene expression is stable after exposure to trichloroethylene. Toxicology Letters doi:10.1016/j.toxlet.2007.12.008
  • Berger T, Roberts B. (in press) Reduced immunolabeling of a porcine oocyte membrane protein reflects reduced fertilizability of porcine oocytes following elevated ambient temperature. Reproduction in Domestic Animals.
  • Wu KL, and Berger T. 2007. Trichloroethylene metabolism in the rat ovary reduces oocyte fertilizability. Chemico-Biological Interactions 170:20-30
  • Ramesh R, Pearl CA, At-Taras E, Roser JF, Berger, T. 2007. Ontogeny of androgen and estrogen receptor expression in porcine testis: effect of reducing testicular estrogen synthesis. Animal Reproduction Science 102: 286-299.
  • Pearl, CA, At-Taras E, Berger T and Roser JF. 2007. Reduced endogenous estrogen delays epididymal development but has no effect on efferent duct morphology in boars. Reproduction 134: 593-604.
  • Pearl CA, Berger T, Roser, JF. 2007. Estrogen and Androgen Receptor Expression in Relation to Steroid Concentrations in the Adult Boar Epididymis. Domestic Animal Endocrinology 33:451-459.
  • Corbin CJ, Hughes AL, Heffelfinger JR, Berger T, Waltzek TB, Roser JF, Santos TC, Miglino MA, Oliveira MF, Braga FC, Meirelles FV, Conley AJ. 2007. Evolution of suiform aromatases: ancestral duplication with conservation of tissue-specific expression in the collared peccary (Pecari tayassu) J Molecular Evololution doi: 10.1007/s00239-007-9021-0.
  • At-Taras EE, Berger T, McCarthy MJ, Conley AJ, Nitta-Oda BS, and Roser JF. 2006. Reducing Estrogen Synthesis Increases Testis Size and Total Sperm Production in Developing Boars. Journal of Andrology 27:552-559.
  • McCarthy MJ, At-Taras EE, Pearl CA, Nitta-Oda BS, Roser JF, Conley AJ, and Berger T. 2006. Suppression of Endogenous Estrogen during Development Affects Porcine Epididymal Sperm Maturation. Molecular Reproduction and Development 73:1122-1128.
  • Ducummon C, and Berger T. 2006. Localization of the Rho GTPases and Some Rho Effector Proteins in the Sperm of Several Mammalian Species. Zygote 14:249-257
  • At-Taras E, Kim I, Berger T, Conley A, Roser JF. 2006. Reducing endogenous estrogen during development alters hormone production by porcine Leydig cells and seminiferous tubules. Domestic Animal Endocrinology doi:10.1016/j.domaniend.2006.11.003.
  • At-Taras, E.E., A.J. Conley, T. Berger, and J.F. Roser. 2006. Reducing estrogen synthesis does not affect gonadotropin secretion in the developing boar. Biology Reproduction.74: 58-66.
  • Berger, T. 2006. Sperm Capacitation. In: Encyclopedia of Animal Science.
  • Sartini, B.L. and T. Berger. 2003. Changes in oocyte plasma membrane binding sites on boar spermatozoa with capacitation and acrosome reactions. Reproduction 125:865-870.
Laboratory Personnel:
Gamete Biology Laboratory
http://animalscience.ucdavis.edu/faculty/berger/Research/default.htm
Barbara Nitta-Oda Abigail Polley Eddy Cao

Teaching Interests:
Mentorship of graduate student research projects, graduate level course in Mammalian Gametogenesis and Fertilization (PGG 222, a specialty course in the Designated Emphasis in Reproductive Bio
Courses:
NPB 121 Physiology of Reproduction Winter
NPB 121L Physiology of Reproduction Laboratory Winter