Hugh W. Brock

Emeritus

I have closed my laboratory and am now working in the office of the Provost, so I am no longer accepting students for coop, directed studies, volunteer, honours theses, or graduate school.

  • Office phone
    604-822-8644
  • Research area
    Cell and Developmental Biology
  • History

    Director of the Genetics Graduate Program; B.Sc., U.B.C.; D.Phil., Oxford; EMBO Post-doctoral Fellow, Univ of Paris (1981); Jane Coffin Childs Fellow, Univ. of Washington (1981); Associate Member, Medical Genetics Dept., UBC; Associate Member, Biotechnology Lab., UBC; President of the Genetics Society of Canada 2002-2003.

Transcriptional interference: an unexpected layer of complexity in gene regulation J
Cell Science 120, 2755-2761
Mazo, A., Hodgson, J.W., Petruk, S., Sedkov, Y. and Brock, H.W
2007
Polycomb group mutants exhibit mitotic defects in syncytial cell cycles of Drosophila embryos
Dev. Biol. 290, 312-322
O’Dor, E. Beck, S., and Brock, H.W
2006
Transcriptional elongation of non-coding bxd RNAs promoted by the Trithorax TAC1 complex represses Ubx by a transcriptional interference mechanism
Cell 127, 1209-1221
Petruk, S., Sedkov, Y., Riley, K.M., Hodgson, J., Schweisguth, F., Hirose, S., Jaynes, J.B., Brock, H.W. and Mazo, A
2006