Office:     339 VetSci, 1971 Commonwealth Ave, St.Paul Campus
Phone:     612-624-2644
Fax:         612-625-5203
E-mail:   skinn002@umn.edu

Education:
     PhD Pathobiology, 1998, University of Minnesota
     PhD Dissertation: Nuclear Alterations and Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 1

Current teaching responsibilities:
     CVM 6200 Veterinary Neurobiology
      MVB 8201 Mechanisms of Animal Health and Disease I
      MVB 8201 Mechanisms of Animal Health and Disease II
      Summer Molecular BioTechnology Workshop

Academic interests:
     • neuroscience;
     • pathogenesis of infectious and genetic diseases;

Other professional interests:
     Training undergraduate, graduate, and professional students to perform cutting edge biomedical research

Selected publications authored by Skinner:
• Skinner PJ, Koshy BT, Cummings CJ, Klement IA, Helin K, Servadio A, Zoghbi HY, Orr HT Ataxin-1 With an Expanded Glutamine Tract Alters Nuclear Matrix-Associated Structures. Nature 1997; 389: 971-974.

• Skinner PJ, Daniels MA, Schmidt CS, Jameson SC, and Haase AT. In situ tetramer staining of antigen-specific T cells in tissues. Journal of Immunology 2000; 165 (2): 613 - 617.

• Skinner PJ/Vierra-Green CA, Clark HB, Zoghbi HY, and Orr HT. Altered trafficking of membrane proteins in Purkinje cells of SCA1 transgenic mice. American Journal of Pathology 2001; 59, 905-13.

• Skinner PJ, Vierra-Green CA, Emamian E, Zoghbi HY, Orr HT. Amino acids in a region of ataxin-1 outside of the polyglutamine tract influence the course of disease in SCA1 transgenic mice. Neuromolecular Medicine 2002; 1(1): 33-42.

• Skinner PJ, and Haase AT. In situ tetramer staining. Journal of Immunological Methods 2002; 268(1):29-34.