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Meredith Taylor
Research Associate; Anatomy
Education Credentials: M.A.
Expertise: Bioethics
Joined New York Tech: 2019
After earning an undergraduate degree in marine biology (with a minor in chemistry), I worked as a marine educator for eight years. I moved on to research work in a laboratory setting, which I have been doing for the last 21 years. My research interests have varied from Huntington’s Disease to cancer research, Autoimmune Disease, Diabetes, infertility, and now embryonic brain development. In 2021, I completed my master’s degree in bioethics at The Ohio State University and that same year, I was elected as the chair of the Ethics Committee in the Department of Anatomy at New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine (NYITCOM). Additionally, I was appointed to the Anatomy Department’s Standing Committee for Research and the Radiation and Chemical Safety Committee. I am a member of the American Association for Anatomy in good standing. I hope to design an ethics problem solving-based course for NYITCOM students, so that they will have an easier time solving ethical dilemmas in their future careers.
- Taylor, M. J., Green, T. L., Guilhon, G., Lowi-Merri, T., & Watanabe, A. (2026). Bone and cartilage staining protocol for large avian specimens: Late-stage embryonic emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) and adult chickens (Gallus gallus). The Anatomical Record, 309(6), 1441–1450
- Watanabe, A., Arqam, I., Taylor, M.J. and Molnar, J.L. (2024), Revisiting Old Questions With New Methods: The Effect of Embryonic Motility on Skull Development in the Domestic Chick. Journal of Morphology, 285: e21785
- Scott Landman, Todd L. Green, Meredith J. Taylor, Kamal Moussa, Paul Gignac, Eugenia L Gold, Akinobu Watanabe. Could congenital hydrocephalus lead to evolution of novel brain morphologies in domestic chickens? Conference abstract for Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) (2023).
- Akinobu Watanabe, Scott Landman, Meredith J. Taylor, Sylvia Marshall, Mohit Shah, Todd L. Green, Paul Gignac. Polish Crested Chickens: A Promising New Model System with Aberrant Head Anatomy. Conference abstract for International Society for Vertebrate Morphology (ICVM) (2023).
- Meredith J. Taylor, Todd L. Green, Aki Watanabe. See-Through Emu: An Odyssey in Ratite Staining. Conference presentation for Northeast Regional Vertebrate Evolution Symposium (NERVES) (2023).
- Izza Arqam, Siem Satti, Hamza Siddiqui, Meredith J. Taylor, Mariel Bedell, Scott Landman, Yekaterina Okouneva, Akinobu Watanabe. Skull-brain integration in developing chickens. Conference abstract for International Society for Vertebrate Morphology (ICVM) (2023).
- Kathleen Garland, John Abramyan, Meredith J. Taylor, Akinobu Watanabe, Alistair R. Evans. Tweaking the chicken beak: Investigating the shape and development of the chicken (Gallus gallus) beak from embryo to adult. Conference abstract for International Society for Vertebrate Morphology (ICVM) (2023).
- Scott Landman, Meredith J. Taylor, Todd L. Green, Kamal Moussa, Paul M. Gignac, M. Eugenia L.Gold, Akinobu Watanabe. Evaluating congenital hydrocephalus as potential etiology for novel brain morphologies. Conference abstract for Anatomy Connected (2023).
- Xiaoyue Pan, Meredith J. Taylor, Emma Cohen, Nazeeh Hanna. Circadian Clock, Time-Restricted Feeding, and Reproduction. Molecular Pathology, Diagnostics, and Therapeutics 21(3), 831 (2020)
- Shi, J, Wang, E, Zuber, J, Rappaport, A, Taylor, M, Lowe, SW, Vakoc, CR. The Polycomb complex PRC2 supports aberrant self-renewal in a mouse model of MLL-AF9;NrasG12D acute myeloid leukemia. Nature Oncogene 32(7), 930–938 (2013)
- Zuber, J, Rappaport, AR, Luo, W, Wang, E, Chen, C, Vaseva, AV, Shi, J, Weissmueller, S, Fellmann, C, Taylor, MJ, Weissenboeck, M, Graber, TG, Kogan, SC, Vakoc, CR, Lowe, SW. An integrated approach to dissecting oncogene addiction implicated a Myb-coordinated self-renewal program as essential for leukemia maintenance. Genes & Development 25, 1628–1640 (2011).
- Zuber, J, Shi, J, Wang, E, Rappaport AR, Hermann, H, Silson, EA, Magoon, D, Qi, J, Blatt, K, Wunderlich, M, Taylor, MJ, Johns, C, Chicas, A, Mulloy, JC, Kogan, SC, Brown, P, Valent, P, Bradner, JE, Lowe, SW, Vakoc, CR. RNAi screen identifies Brd4 as a therapeutic target in acute myeloid leukemia. Nature 478, 524–530 (2011)
- Zuber, J, McJunkin, K, Fellmann, C, Dow, LE, Taylor, MJ, Hannon, GJ, Lowe, SW. Toolkit for evaluating genes required for proliferation and survival using tetracycline-regulated RNAi. Nature Biotechnology 29, 79–83 (2011).
- Menalled, L, Hornberger, M, Taylor MJ, Orenstein, SJ, Ruiz, M. High-throughput pre-clinical behavioral screening of drug candidates in the R6/2 mouse model of Huntington’s Disease. Poster at HD 2006 Changes, advances, and good news for HiQ (2006).
- Thompson (Taylor), M. Fishways Allow Fish to Move Past Obstructions and Get on with their Lives. On the Water 16, 13 (2000).
- Embryology of the Egg