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Tom Bunch
Associate Research Professor
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Research involves regulation of Drosophila and vertebrate integrin affinity and clustering; mutations in the Drosophila integrin subunit; nuclear localization of kinases mediated by Drosophila integrin.
Selected Publications
. Aug 2008. Differences in regulation of Drosophila and vertebrate integrin affinity by talin. Mol Biol Cell, 19:3589-98
Firestone RB, West A, Kennett JP, Becker L, Bunch TE, Revay ZS, Schultz PH, Belgya T, Kennett DJ, Erlandson JM, Dickenson OJ, Goodyear AC, Harris RS, Howard GA, Kloosterman JB, Lechler P, Mayewski PA,. Oct 2007. Evidence for an extraterrestrial impact 12,900 years ago that contributed to the megafaunal extinctions and the Younger Dryas cooling. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 104:16016-21
James BP, Bunch TA, Krishnamoorthy S, Perkins LA, Brower DL. Oct 2007. Nuclear localization of the ERK MAP kinase mediated by Drosophila alphaPS2betaPS integrin and importin-7. Mol Biol Cell, 18:4190-9
Devenport D, Bunch TA, Bloor JW, Brower DL, Brown NH. Aug 2007. Mutations in the Drosophila alphaPS2 integrin subunit uncover new features of adhesion site assembly. Dev Biol, 308:294-308