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Liisa Smith Pathology and Laboratory Medicine 420 brinkhous bullitt, CB# 7525 Lab Phone: 919-843-5512 Lab Fax: |
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1st Year IVB Trainee
4th Year Graduate Student
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Ph.D. Project Description:
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Principle Investigator: |
Joan Taylor | |
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Familiar Techniques: |
smooth muscle primary culture, adenovirus prep, protein-protein interactions, immunohistochemistry, rt-pcr, mutagenesis | |
Other Techniques used in Laboratory: |
in situ, chip assays, northern | |
Undergraduate degree: |
B.A. in biochemistry (1999) from Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut | |
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Publications: |
Sundberg, L.J., Galante, L.M., Bill, H.M., Mack, C.P., and Taylor, J.M. (2003) An endogenous inhibitor of focal adhesion kinase blocks Rac1/JNK- but not Ras/ERK-dependent signaling in vascular smooth muscle cells. J. Biol. Chem. 278:29783-29791 | |
| Sundberg-Smith, L.J., Doherty, J.T., Mack, C.P., and Taylor, J.M. (2005) Adhesion stimulates direct PAK1/ERK2 association and leads to ERK-dependent PAK1 Thr212 phosphorylation. J. Biol. Chem. 280:2055-2064. | ||
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