Rolf Bodmer Burnham Institute for Medical Research

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Rolf Bodmer is a professor for the post of UCSD Adjunct Professor, Pediatrics and Pathology at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute. Here I am providing basic information about his education, work, etc.
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Work experience:

Professor and Director of Development and Aging Program
Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute

Professor and Program Director of the Development and Aging Program In the Neuroscience
Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute

Board Memberships and Affiliations:

Board of Trustees Member
Gordon Research Conferences incorporated

Education:

Ph.D.
Ph.D. , Biochemistry and Neurobiology
University of Basel

Molecular Genetics
University of California , San Francisco

Ph.D. Huei-Sheng Vincent Chen
M.D.

His Publications:

Wessells, R.J., Fitzgerald, E., Cypser, J.R., Tatar, M., Bodmer R. (2004). Insulin regulation of heart function in aging fruit flies. Nature Genetics 36, 1275-1281.

Qian, L., Liu, J., Bodmer, R. (2005). Slit and Robo control cardiac cell polarity and morphogenesis. Curr. Biol. 15, 2271-2278.

Ocorr, K., Reeves, N.L., Wessells, R. J., Fink, M., Chen, H.-S.V., Akasaka, T., Yasuda, S. Metzger, J., Giles, W., Posakony, J.W., Bodmer, R. (2007) KCNQ potassium channel mutations cause cardiac arrhythmias in Drosophila that mimic the effects of aging. PNAS 103, 3943-3948.

Qian, L, Mohapatra, B., Akasaka, T., Liu, J., Ocorr, K., Towbin, J.A., Bodmer, R. (2008). Transcription factor neuromancer/TBX20 is required for cardiac function in Drosophila with implications for human heart disease. PNAS, 105, 19833-19838.

Wessells, R.J., Fitzgerald, E., Piazza, N., Ocorr, K., Morley, S., Davies, C., Lim, H.-Y., Mitchell, L., Hayes, M., Oldham, S., Bodmer, R. (2009). d4eBP acts downstream of both dTOR and dFOXO to modulate cardiac functional aging in Drosophila. Aging Cell 8, 542-552

Lee, J. H., Budanov, A. V., Park, E. J., Birse, R., Kim, T. E., Perkins, G. A., Ocorr, K., Ellisman, M. H., Bodmer, R., Bier, E. Karin, M. (2010). Sestrin as a feedback inhibitor of TOR that prevents age-related pathologies. Science 327, 1223-1228.

Neely, G.G., Kuba, K., Cammarato, A. et al. and †Bodmer, R, †Penninger, J.M. (2010). A global in vivo Drosophila RNAi screen identifies NOT3 as a conserved regulator of heart function. Cell 141, 142-153 †co-corresponding authors.

Birse, R., Choi, J., Reardon, K., Rodriguez, J., Graham, S. M., Diop, S., Ocorr, K., Bodmer, R.†, Oldham, S.† (2010). High Fat Diet-induced obesity and heart dysfunction is regulated by the TOR pathway in the Drosophila model.

His interest areas:

Developmental Biology
Endocrinology

To know more about him, you can personally contact him at:

(858)795-5295 (phone)
(858)795-5293 (fax)
rolf@sanfordburnham.org