Marie A. DiBerardino (orDi Berardino) (May 2, 1926 – July 14, 2013, Haverford, Pennsylvania) was an American biologist, specializing in developmental biology and genetics. She is known, with Robert William Briggs and Thomas Joseph King, as a pioneer in amphibian cloning.[1][2]
In 1967 DiBerardino and Thomas J. King published[4] the important result that "nuclear transplantation from gastrulae and later stages often resulted in chromosome damage, whereas nuclei from blastula cells were damaged a great deal less. This, in turn, can be attributed to the slowing cell cycle as cells differentiate and to other changes undergone as cells progress toward a specialized state."[5]
DiBerardino was elected in 1976 a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[6] She received the Jean Brachet Memorial Award of the International Society of Developmental Biology (now called the International Society of Differentiation) and gave the 1996 Jean Brachet Memorial Lecture.[7][8]
She was the co-editor, with Laurence D. Etkin, of Genomic Adaptability in Somatic Cell Specialization[9]
She served on numerous editorial boards, lectured at numerous symposia in the USA, Canada, England, France, Italy, Germany, and Japan and was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Society for Development Biology, the International Society of Developmental Biology, the Board of Corporators of the Medical College of Pennsylvania, ...[1]
Di Berardino, Marie A. (1962). "The karyotype of Rana pipiens and investigation of its stability during embryonic differentiation". Developmental Biology. 5 (1): 101–126. doi:10.1016/0012-1606(62)90006-4. ISSN0012-1606.
Di Berardino, Marie A.; Hoffner, Nancy (1970). "Origin of chromosomal abnormalities in nuclear transplants—A reevaluation of nuclear differentiation and nuclear equivalence in amphibians". Developmental Biology. 23 (2): 185–209. doi:10.1016/0012-1606(70)90094-1. ISSN0012-1606. PMID4920402.
Hoffner, Nancy J.; Diberardino, Marie A. (1977). "The acquisition of egg cytoplasmic non-histone proteins by nuclei during nuclear reprogramming". Experimental Cell Research. 108 (2): 421–427. doi:10.1016/S0014-4827(77)80049-9. PMID302214.
Diberardino, Marie A. (1980). "Genetic Stability and Modulation of Metazoan Nuclei Transplanted into Eggs and Oocytes". Differentiation. 17 (1–3): 17–30. doi:10.1111/j.1432-0436.1980.tb01078.x. PMID6997128.
Leonard, Ronald A.; Hoffner, Nancy J.; Diberardino, Marie A. (1982). "Induction of DNA synthesis in amphibian erythroid nuclei in Rana eggs following conditioning in meiotic oocytes". Developmental Biology. 92 (2): 343–355. doi:10.1016/0012-1606(82)90180-4. PMID6981533.
King, Thomas J.; Diberardino, Marie A. (2006). "Transplantation of Nuclei from the Frog Renal Adenocarcinoma I. Development of Tumor Nuclear-Transplant Embryos". Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 126 (1): 115–126. doi:10.1111/j.1749-6632.1965.tb14271.x. PMID5220155. S2CID37551660.
Di Berardino M.A. (2006). "Origin and Progress of Nuclear Transfer in Nonmammalian Animals". In Verma P.J.; Trounson A.O. (eds.). Nuclear Transfer Protocols. Methods in Molecular Biology. Vol. 348. Humana Press. pp. 3–31. doi:10.1007/978-1-59745-154-3_1. ISBN978-1-58829-280-3. PMID16988369.
^Di Berardino, Marie A.; King, Thomas J. (1967). "Development and cellular differentiation of neural nuclear-transplants of known karyotype". Developmental Biology. 15 (2): 102–128. doi:10.1016/0012-1606(67)90009-7. ISSN0012-1606. PMID6034428.
^Green, Douglas R. (1990). "Review of Genomic Adaptability in Somatic Cell Specialization edited by Marie A. DiBerardino and Laurence D. Etkin". The Quarterly Review of Biology. 65 (3): 356–357. doi:10.1086/416867. ISSN0033-5770. p. 356p. 357
