Leah Solberg Woods, PhD 

Titles
Investigator, Children's Research Institute; assistant professor, Pediatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin.

Division
Genomic Pediatrics

Research interests
Diabetes/obesity, genetic diseases/genomics

Study interests
Genetics of type 2 diabetes using rat models.

Education
Doctorate, Northwestern University, Chicago, 2002.

Representative publications

• Solberg LC, Baum A, Ahmidayeh N, Shimomura K, Li R, Turek FW, Takahashi JS, Churchill GA, Redei EE. Sex and Lineage-specific Inheritance of Depression-like Behavior in the Rat. Mammalian Genome. 2004; 15:648-6.
• Solberg LC, Valdar W, Gauguier D, Nunez G, Taylor A, Arboleda-Hita C, Hernandez-Pliego P, Davidson S, Burns P, Hough T, Higgs D, Klenerman P, Cookson WO, Deacon RM, Rawlins JNP, Mott R, Flint J. A Protocol for High Throughput Phenotyping, Suitable for Quantitative Trait Analysis in Mice. Mammalian Genome. 2006; 17(2):129-46.
• Baum AE, Solberg LC, Churchill GA. Ahmadiyeh N, Takahashi JS, Jameson JL, Redei EE. Test-and Behavior-specific Genetic Factors Affect WKY Hypoactivity in Tests of Emotionality. Behavioural Brain Research. 2006; 15:169(2):220-30.
• Valdar W, Solberg LC, Gauguier D, Burnett, S Klenerman , P, Cookson WO, Taylor MS, Rawlins JN, Mott R, Flint J. Genome-wide Genetic Association of Complex Trains in Heterogeneous Stock Mice. Nature Genetics. 2006; 38(8):879-87.
• Valdar W, Solberg LC, Gauguier D, Cookson WO, Rawlins JN, Mott R, Flint J. Genetic and Environmental Effects on Complex Traits in Mice. Genetics. 2006; 174(2): 959-84.
• Solberg LC, Baum A, Ahmidayeh N, Shimomura K, Li R, Turek FW, Takahashi JS, Churchill GA, Redei EE. Genetic Analysis of the Stress-responsive Adrenocortical Axis. Physiological Genomics. 2006; 27(3):362-9.

Grants

• Fine Mapping Non-insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus Quantitative Trait Loci 1 using Heterogeneous Stock Rats/National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive Kidney Diseases, principal investigator.

Contact
Children's Research Institute
Room C2415
8701 Watertown Plank Road
Wauwatosa, WI 53226
Phone: (414) 955-2354
Fax: (414) 955-6310
E-mail: lsolberg@mcw.edu