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Herb, PhD</h1> </div> <div class="inner-wrapper two-column"> <div class="content"> <div class="faculty-info"> <div class="row"> <div class="info-title"> <p>Academic Title:</p> </div> <div class="info-answer"> <p>Research Associate</p> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="info-title"> <p>Primary Appointment:</p> </div> <div class="info-answer"> <p>Pharmacology</p> </div> </div> <div id="orcid" data-orcid-id=""></div>   <div class='row'><div class='info-title'><p>Email:</p></div><div class='info-answer'><p><a href='mailto:bherb@som.umaryland.edu'>bherb@som.umaryland.edu</a></p></div></div>       <div class="csv"><a href="https://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/profiles/herb-brian/Brian_Herb_CV_Oct_24.doc">Download CV</a></div>  </div>  <h2 class='h2'>Education and Training</h2><div><p>1995 – 1999    B.A., Biology and Chemistry, Dickinson College                            </p> <p>2006 – 2013    Ph.D., BCMB, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine</p> <p>2016 – 2018    Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Illinois</p> <p> </p></div>    <h2 class='h2'>Highlighted Publications</h2><div><p><strong><u> Characterizing cell type diversity and function in the brain. </u></strong></p> <ul> <li><strong> </strong><strong>Herb BR, </strong>Glover HJ, Bhaduri A, Colantuoni C, Bale TL, Siletti K, Linnarsson S, Hodge R, Lein E, Kriegstein AR, Doege CA, Ament SA.<strong> </strong>Single-cell genomics reveals region-specific developmental trajectories underlying neuronal diversity in the human hypothalamus. <em> Adv. </em><strong>9</strong>, (2023) doi:10.1126/sciadv.adf6251 PMCID: PMC10631741</li> <li>Callaway, E. M. <em>et al.</em> (along with the BRAIN Initiative Cell Census Network (BICCN) Consortium, including<strong> Herb BR</strong>)<strong> </strong>A multimodal cell census and atlas of the mammalian primary motor cortex. <em>Nature </em>2021 Oct;598(7879):86-102. doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03950-0. Epub 2021 Oct 6. PMID: 34616075; PMCID: PMC8494634.</li> <li>Yao Z, Liu H, Xie F, Fischer S, Adkins RS, Aldridge AI, <em>et al. </em>A transcriptomic and epigenomic cell atlas of the mouse primary motor cortex. <em>Nature</em> 2021 Oct;598(7879):103-110. doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03500-8. Epub 2021 Oct 6. PMID: 34616066; PMCID: PMC8494649.</li> </ul> <p><strong><u>Gene dysregulation in disease states </u></strong></p> <ul> <li>Doi, A.<em> </em>Park, I. Wen, B. Murakami, P Aryee, M. Irizarry, R. <strong>Herb, B</strong>. Ladd-Acosta, C. Rho, J. Loewer, S. Miller, J. Schlaeger, T. Daley, G. Feinberg, A. Differential methylation of tissue- and cancer-specific CpG island shores distinguishes human induced pluripotent stem cells, embryonic stem cells and fibroblasts. <em>Nature Genetics</em> <strong>41</strong>, 1350-1353, (2009). PMCID: PMC2958040</li> <li>Kalra G, Milon B, Casella AM, <strong>Herb BR</strong>, Humphries E, Song Y, Rose KP, Hertzano R, Ament SA. Biological insights from multi-omic analysis of 31 genomic risk loci for adult hearing difficulty. <em>PLoS Genet. </em>2020 Sep 28;16(9):e1009025. PMCID: PMC7544108.</li> <li>Malaiya S, Cortes-Gutierrez M, <strong>Herb BR</strong>, Coffey SR, Legg SRW, Cantle JP, Colantuoni C, Carroll JB, Ament SA. Single-Nucleus RNA-Seq Reveals Dysregulation of Striatal Cell Identity Due to Huntington’s Disease Mutations. <em>Journal of Neuroscience</em> 2021 Jun 23;41(25):5534-5552. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2074-20.2021. Epub 2021 May 19. PMID: 34011527; PMCID: PMC8221598.</li> </ul> <p><strong><u>Epigenetic regulation of behavior</u></strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>Herb, B.</strong> Wolschin, F. Hansen, K. Aryee, M. Langmead, B. Irizarry, R. Amdam, G. and Feinberg A. Reversible switching between epigenetic states in honeybee behavioral subcastes. <em>Nature Neuroscience, </em><strong>10, </strong>1371-3 (2012)  PMCID: PMC3518384</li> <li><strong>Herb, B. R.</strong>, Shook, M. S., Fields, C. J. & Robinson, G. E. Defense against territorial intrusion is associated with DNA methylation changes in the honey bee brain. <em>BMC Genomics</em> 2018 Mar 26;19(1):216. doi: 10.1186/s12864-018-4594-0. PMID: 29580210; PMCID: PMC5870497.</li> <li><strong>Herb, B. </strong>Epigenetics as an answer to Darwin’s “special dif铿乧ulty.” <em> Genet.</em> 5:321 (2014). 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