Patents by Inventor Margaret E. Spencer

Margaret E. Spencer has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Methods for identifying genes regulating desired cell phenotypes
    Publication number: 20040133941
    Abstract: The invention features a method for identifying a gene associated with a desired phenotype. This method includes the steps of: (a) providing a plurality of cell cultures that include plant, animal, or fungal cells capable of exhibiting a desired phenotype; (b) contacting each of at least a subset of said cells with a stimulus that (i) induces said cells to exhibit the phenotype, or (ii) does not induce said cell cultures to exhibit the phenotype; (c) determining the presence of the phenotype in the cell cultures of step (b); and (d) identifying a gene having increased expression in response to stimuli that induce the phenotype but do not have increased expression in response to stimuli that do not induce the phenotype.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2004
    Publication date: July 8, 2004
    Inventors: Benjamin A. Bowen, Edward A. Deakin, Neil Goldsmith, Christian Haudenschild, David R. Houck, James B. McAlpine, Soren V.S. Nielsen, Christopher Pazoles, Margaret E. Spencer, Angela M. Stafford
  • Methods for identifying genes regulating desired cell phenotypes
    Publication number: 20030175678
    Abstract: The invention features a method for identifying a gene associated with a desired phenotype. This method includes the steps of: (a) providing a plurality of cell cultures that include plant, animal, or fungal cells capable of exhibiting a desired phenotype; (b) contacting each of at least a subset of said cells with a stimulus that (i) induces said cells to exhibit the phenotype, or (ii) does not induce said cell cultures to exhibit the phenotype; (c) determining the presence of the phenotype in the cell cultures of step (b); and (d) identifying a gene having increased expression in response to stimuli that induce the phenotype but do not have increased expression in response to stimuli that do not induce the phenotype.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2002
    Publication date: September 18, 2003
    Inventors: Benjamin A. Bowen, Edward A. Deakin, Neil Goldsmith, Christian Haudenschild, David R. Houck, James B. McAlpine, Soren V.S. Nielsen, Christopher Pazoles, Margaret E. Spencer, Angela M. Stafford