Karen Lyons, PhD
- CCNs in Chondrogenesis
- BMPs in Skeletal Growth and Osteogenic Differentiation
- Regenerative Musculoskeletal Medicine Training Program
Doctoral Degree
- PhD, Laboratory of Genetics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1989
Degree
- BA with High Honors, Departmental Honors in Genetics, University of California, Berkeley, 1980
Post Graduate Training
- Post-doctoral studies, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Harvard University, 1992-94
- Post-doctoral studies, Department of Cell Biology, Vanderbilt University, 1989-92
- American Association of Anatomists
- American Society for Bone and Mineral Research
- American Society for Matrix Biology
- Council of Research, Academic Senate, UCLA
- Executive Academic Action Committee (EAAC), Orthopaedic Surgery, UCLA
- International CCN Society
- Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC), UCLA
- Orthopaedic Research Society
- Kappa Delta Ann Doner Vaughn Award, American Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons, 2008
- Elected to Nomination Committee, Orthopaedic Research Society, 2008-2011
- Elected to Program Committee, Orthopaedic Research Society, 2007-2008
- Invited speaker, “Meet The Professor” Symposium, American Society for Bone and Mineral Research, 2007
- Elected Chair, 2010 Cartilage Gordon Conference , 2007
- Organizer, AAOS Symposium on Fracture Repair, American Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons, 2007
- Elected to Council, American Society for Matrix Biology, 2006
- Chair, Abstract Selection Committee, Annual Meeting of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research, 2006, 2005
- Marta Marx Eradication of Scleroderma Award (Scleroderma Foundation), 2004
- AIMM (Advances in Mineral Metabolism) Investigator Award (American Society for Bone and Mineral Research), 2003
- David Paul Kane Scholar (UCLA), 1998
- UCLA Bridge Award, 1997
- Richard F. Dwyer and Elaine W. Dwyer Award for Excellence (UCLA), 1996
- Stein-Oppenheimer Award (UCLA), 1995
- NIH Postdoctoral training grant, 1989-1990
- NIH Predoctoral training grants, 1982-1984, 1986
- Genetics Society of America Student Award, 1985
- Alumni Scholarships, U.C. Berkeley, 1976, 1979
- Azen, E.A., K.M. Lyons, T. McGonigal, N.L. Barrett, L.S. Clements, N. Maeda, E.F. Vanin, D. Carlson, and O. Smithies (1984) Clones from the human gene complex coding for salivary proline-rich proteins. Proc. Natl. Acad Sci. (USA) 81: 5561-5565.
- Mamula, P.W., N.A. Heerman, C.G. Palmer, K.M. Lyons, and R.C. Karn (1985) Localization of the human salivary protein complex (SPC) to chromosome band 12p13.2. Cytogent. Cell Genet. 39: 279-284.
- Lyons, K.M., J.H. Stein and O. Smithies (1988) Length polymorphism in human proline-rich protein genes generated by unequal crossing over. Genetics 120: 267-278.
- Lyons, K.M., E.A. Azen, P.A. Goodman, and O. Smithies (1988) Many protein products from a few loci: assignment of human salivary proline-rich proteins to specific loci. Genetics 120: 255-265.
- Lyons, K.M., J.L. Graycar, A. Lee, S. Hashmi, P.B. Lindquist, E.Y. Chen, B.L.M. Hogan, and R. Derynck (1989) Vgr-1, a mammalian gene related to Xenopus Vg-1, is a member of the transforming growth factor ß gene superfamily. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. (USA) 86: 4554-4558.
- Lyons, K.M., R.W. Pelton and B.L.M. Hogan (1989) Patterns of expression of murine Vgr-1 and BMP-2 RNA suggest that transforming growth factor-ß-like genes co-ordinately regulate aspects of embryonic development. Genes and Devel. 3: 1657-1668.
- Lyons, K.M., R.W. Pelton, J.L. Graycar, R. Derynck, and B.L.M. Hogan (1989) Developmental expression of the murine vgr-1 gene: a new member of the TGF-ß multigene family. In Molecular Genetics of Early Drosophila and Mouse Development. Ed M.R. Capecchi, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, New York
- Lyons, K.M., R.W. Pelton, and B.L.M. Hogan (1990) Organogenesis and pattern formation in the mouse: RNA distribution patterns suggest a role for Bone Morphogenetic Protein-2A (BMP-2A). Development 109: 833-844.
- Jones, C.M., K.M. Lyons, and B.L.M. Hogan (1990) Involvement of Bone Morphogenetic Protein 4 in morphogenesis and neurogenesis in the mouse. Development 111: 531-542.
- Dickinson, M.E., M.S. Kobrin, C.S. Silan, D.M. Kingsley, M.J. Justice, D.A. Miller, J.D. Ceci, L.F. Lock, A. Lee, A.M. Buchberg, L.D. Siracusa, K.M. Lyons, R. Derynck, B.L.M. Hogan, N.G. Copeland, and N.A. Jenkins (1990) Chromosomal localization of seven members of the murine TGF-ß superfamily suggests close linkage to several morphogenetic mutant loci. Genomics 6: 505-520.