The Skinner laboratory started back in 1984
when Dr. Michael K. Skinner obtained a position as an
Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmacology,
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN.
The laboratory also participated in the Vanderbilt
Reproductive Biology Research Center. The laboratory
dealt with an analysis of cellular functions and
cell-cell interactions in the testis and ovary. Dr.
Skinner was then recruited and moved as an Associate
Professor in 1991 to the Department of Obstetrics,
Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences and Department of
Physiology, University of California, San Francisco, CA.
The laboratory was part of the Reproductive Endocrinology
Center and the Developmental Biology Program in
Biological Sciences, University of California, San
Francisco, CA. The laboratories research was designed to
investigate the mechanisms regulating testis and ovary
cellular function, cell-cell interactions and cellular
differentiation, with emphasis in the area of
reproductive biology.
Dr. Skinner was then recruited by Washington State
University to form and direct the Center for Reproductive
Biology and accepted a position as Director for the
Center for Reproductive Biology, joint Center with
Washington State University, Pullman, WA and the
University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, and as a Professor in
the School of Molecular Biosciences, Washington State
University. In 1996 he moved his laboratory to Washington
State University in Pullman, Washington where it
currently resides. In 2002 WSU requested Dr. Skinner also
establish the Center for Integrated Biotechnology.
In 2008 Dr. Skinner stepped down as Director from both
centers to focus his efforts on his research and
laboratory.