Name:  Logan B. Smith
Major Professor:  Anita M. Oberbauer
Department:  Animal Science
Lab Phone:  (530) 752-1046
Email:  lbsmith@ucdavis.edu
Web Site:  http://animalscience.ucdavis.edu/faculty/oberbauer/Students/Smith.htm
BS - California State University, Chico - Agriculture: Animal Science emphasis - 2002
 MS - UC Davis - Animal Biology - 2004
 PhD - UC Davis - Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Physiology - In Progress - 2009
Research Interests
My research interests involve characterizing growth advantages of mutations in the gene Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptor 3 (FGFR3) and investigating intracellular signaling mechanisms that control chondrocyte proliferation, differentiation and senescence in the epiphyseal growth plate.
 
Publications Oberbauer AM, Stiglich C, Murray JD, Keen CL, Fong DL, Smith LB, Cushwa S. Dissociation of body growth and adipose deposition effects of growth hormone in oMt1a-oGH transgenic mice. Growth Dev Aging. 2004 Summer;68(1):33-45. PMID: 15307663.

ABSTRACT: Smith LB, Daley CA, Cooley CL, Early AM. The effects of steroidogenic growth promotants on steer performance, carcass quality, and tenderness, and intramuscular lipid content. J Anim Sci. 2002; 80(Suppl. 1):129 (#515).

Smith LB, Dally M, Sainz RD, Rodrigue K, Oberbauer AM. Enhanced skeletal growth of sheep heterozygous for an inactivated Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptor 3. J Anim Sci. 2006 Nov;84(11):2942-9. PMID: 17032787

Smith LB, Bannasch DL, Young AE, Grossman DI, Belanger JM, Oberbauer AM. Canine Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptor 3 sequence is conserved across dogs of divergent skeletal size. BMC Genetics. 2008 October;9(1):67. PMID: 18940000

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