Andrew Baraniak, Ph.D.

Patent Agent
404-645-7702
abaraniak@m2IPlaw.com

Andrew Baraniak supports the patent prosecution practice at McKeon Meunier as a Patent Agent. Dr. Baraniak has experience in molecular genetics and microbiology and has research experience as a post doctoral fellow at the University of North Carolina.

Publications and Presentations
"Role for Fox-1/Fox-2 in Mediating the Neuronal Pathway of Calcitonin/Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide Alternative RNA Processing," with H.L. Zhou and H. Lou, Mol Cell Biol, 27, 830-41 (2007).

"Fox-2 Mediates Epithelial Cell-Specific Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptor 2 Exon Choice," with J.R. Chen and M.A. Garcia-Blanco, Mol Cell Biol, 26, 1209-22 (2006).

"Charcterization of the Inronic Splicing Silencers Flanking FGFR2 Exon IIIb, " with E.J. Wagner, O.M. Sessions, D. Mauger, E. Moskowitz, and M.A. Garcia-Blanco, J Biol Chem, 280, 14017-27 (2005).

"Alternative Splicing in Disease and Therapy," with M.A. Garcia-Blanco and E.L. Lasda, Nature Biotechnology, 22, 535-46 (2004).

"A Stem Structure in Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptor 2 Transcripts Mediates Cell-Type Specific Splicing by Approximating Intronic Control Elements," with *E.L. Lasda, E.J. Wagner, and M.A. Garcia-Blanco, Mol Cell Biol, 23, 9327-37 (2003) (*contributed equally).

"The Application of the RNA Invader AssayTM to analyze FGF-R2 Alternative Splicing," with *E.J. Wagner, *M.L. Curtis, N.R. Robson, P.E. Eis, and M.A. Garcia-Blanco, RNA, 9, 1554-61 (2003) (*contributed equally).

Annual RNA Society Meeting (Banff, Alberta), Oral Presentation (2005).

Annual RNA Society Meeting (Madison, WI), Poster Presentation (2004).

NC RNA Society Meeting (Chapel Hill, NC), Poster Presentation (2003).

Annual RNA Society Meeting (Vienna, Austria), Poster Presentation (2003).

Era of Good Hope Meeting (Orlando, FL), Poster Presentation (2002).

Annual RNA Society Meeting (Madison, WI), Poster Presentation (2002).

Cold Spring Harbor Eukaryotic mRNA Processing (CSH, NY), Poster Presentation (2001).

Technologies

Molecular genetics
Microbiology

Admissions

United States Patent & Trademark Office

Education

BS, Pennsylvania State University
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

PhD, Duke University
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology