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Robert E. Hammer

Professor, Department of Biochemistry

Senior Associate, Howard Hughes Medical Institute


e-mail: Robert.Hammer@UTSouthwestern.edu


EDUCATION/TRAINING

Institution and Location
Degree
Years
Field
Wayne State University, Michigan
Ph.D.
1981
Cell Biology and Anatomy
Wayne State University, Michigan
1977
Reproductive Biology
Kalamazoo College, Michigan
B.A.
1975
Reproductive Biology

RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1983 - 1986 Research Associate, University of Pennsylvania, School of Veterinary Medicine
1986 - 1989 Assistant Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Assistant Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
1989 Adjunct Professor, Department of Veterinary Physiology/Pharmacology, Texas A&M University, College of Veterinary Medicine
1990 - 1992 Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Senior Associate, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
1992 - 1998 Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Senior Associate, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
1998 - Present Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Senior Associate, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas

HONORS

1983-1984 NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine
1989 USDA Unit Award for Distinguished Service: Application of Gene Transfer to Farm Animals
1992 Carol-Nachman Prize in Rheumatology, State Capital of Wiesbaden, Germany
Scientific Advisory Board of Induced Mutant Resource, Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Geppert, M., Khovotecv, M., Krasnoperov, V., Goda, Y., Missler, M., Hammer, R.E., Ichtchenko, K., Petrenko, A.G., and Sudhof, T.C. (1998) Neurexin Ia is a major a-latrotoxin receptor that cooperates in a-latrotoxin action. J. Biol. Chem. 273:1705-1710.

Horton, J.D., Shimomura, I., Brown, M.S., Hammer, R.E., Goldstein, J.L., and Shimano, H. (1998) Activation of cholesterol synthesis in preferance to fatty acid synthesis in liver and adipose tissue of transgenic mice overproducing sterol regulatory element-binding protein-2. J. Clin. Invest. 101:2331-2339.

Peet, D.J., Turley, S.D., Ma, W., Janowski, B.A., Lobaccaro, J-M. A., Hammer, R.E., and Mangelsdorf, D.J. (1998) Cholesterol and bile acid metabolism are impaired in mice lacking the nuclear oxysterol receptor LXRa. Cell 93:693-704.

Yanagisawa, H., Hammer, R.E., Richardson, J.A., Williams, S.C., Cloutheir, D.E., and Yanagisawa, M. (1998) Role of endothelin-1/endothelin-A receptor-mediated signaling pathway in the aortic arch patterning in mice. J. Clin. Invest. 102:22-33.

Zhou, M., Sayad, A., Simmons, W.A., Jones, R.C., Maika, S.D., Satumtira, N., Dorris, M.L., Gaskell, S.J., Bordoli, R.S., Sartor, R.B., Slaughter, C.A., Richardson, J.A., Hammer, R.E., and Taurog, J.D. (1998) Specificity of peptides bound to HLA-B27 influences the prevalence of arthritis in HLA-B27 transgenic rats. J. Exp. Med. 188:877-886.

Onderdonk, A.B., Richardon, J.A., Hammer, R.E., and Taurog, J.D. (1998) Correlation of cecal microflora of HLA-B27 transgenic rats with inflammatory bowel disease. Infection & Immunity 66:6022-6023.

Shimomura, I., Hammer, R.E., Richardson, J.A., Ikemoto, S., Bashmakov, Y., Goldstein, J.L., and Brown, M.S. (1998) Insulin resistance and diabetes mellitus in transgenic mice expressing nuclear SREBP-1c in adipose tissue: model for congenital generalized lipodystrophy. Genes & Development 12:3182-3194.

Li, S., George-Raizen, B.J., Hammer, R.E., and Garrard, W.T. (1998) Accurate quantification of expression of transgenes marked with restriction endonuclease site polymorphisms by RT-PCR. Biotechniques 25:558-562.

Tian,H., Hammer, R.E., Matsumoto, A.M., Russell, D.W., and McKnight, S.L. (1998) Evidence of a gene regulatory circuit controlling cardiac output during mammalian embryogenesis. Genes & Development 12:3320-3324.

Korn, B.S., Shimoura, I., Bashmakov, Y., Hammer, R.E., Horton, J.D., Goldstein, J.L., and Brown, M.S. (1998) Blunted feedback suppression of SREPB processing by dietary cholesterol in transgenic mice expression sterol-resistant SCAP (D443N). J. Clin. Invest. 1l02:2050-2060.

Gariepy, C.E., Williams, S.C., Richardson, J.A., Hammer, R.E., and Yanagisawa, M. (1998) Transgenic expression of the endothelin-B receptor prevents congenital intestinal aganglionosis in a rat model of hirschsprung disease. J. Clin. Invest. 102:1092-1101.

Hammer, R.E. (1998) Egg culture: the foundation. Int J. Dev. Biol. 42:833-839.

Missler, M., Hammer, R.E., and Sudhof, T.C. (1998) Neurexophilin binding to a-neurexins. J. Biol. Chem. 273:34716-34723.

Devine, J.H., Eubank, D.W., Clouther, D.E., Tontonoz, P., Spiegelman, B.M., Hammer, R.E., and Beale, E.G. (1999) Adipose ezpression of the phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase promoter requires peroxisome proliferator-receptor (gamma) and 9-cis-retinoic acid receptor binding to an adipocyte-specific enhancer in vivo. J. Biol Chem. 274:13604-13612.

Taurog, J.D., Maika, S.D., Satumtira, N., Dorris, M.L., McLean, I.L., Yanagisawa, H., Sayad, A., Stagg, A.J., Fox, G.M., O'Brien, A.L., Rehman, M., Zhou, M., Weiner, A.L., Splawski, J.B., Richardson, J.A., and Hammer, R.E. (1999) Inflammatory disease in HLA-B27 transgenic rats. Immunological Reviews 169:209-223.

Trommsdorff, M., Gotthardt, M., Heisberger, T., Shelton, J., Stockinger, W., Nimpf, J., Hammer, R.E., Richardson, J.A., and Herz, J. (1999) Reeler/disabled-like disruption of neuronal migration in knockout mice lacking the VLDL receptor and ApoE receptor 2. Cell 97:689-701.

Alcorn, J.L., Hammer, R.E., Graves, K.R., Smith, M.E., Maika, S.D., Michael, L.F., Gao, E., Wang, Y., and Mendelson, C.R. (1999) Analysis of genomic regions involved in regulation of the rabbit surfactant protein A gene in transgenic mice. Am. J. Physiol 277 (Lung Cell. Mol. Physiol. 21): L349-L361.

Chemelli, R.M., Willie, J.T., Sinton, C.M., Elmquist, J.K., Scammell, T., Lee, C., Richardosn, J.A., Williams, S.C., Ziong, Y., Kisanuki, Y., Fitch, T.E., Nakazato, M., Hammer, R.E., Saper, C.B., and Yanagisawa, M. (1999) Narcolepsy in orexin knockout mice: molecular genetics of sleep regulation. Cell 98:437-451.

Shimomura, I., Hammer, R.E., Ikemoto, S., Brown, M.S., and Goldstein, J.L. (1999) Leptin reverses insulin resistance and diabetes mellitus in mice with congenital lipodystrophy. Nature 401:73-76.

Hosaka, M., Hammer, R.E., and Sudhof, T.C. (1999) A phospho-switch controls the dynamic association of synapsins with synaptic vesicles. Neuron 24:377-387.

Li, S., Hammer, R.E., George-Raisen, J.B., Meyers, K.C., and Garrard, W.T. (2000) High level rearrangement and transcription of YAC-based mouse IgK transgenics containing distal regions of the contig. J. Immunol., in press.

Fernandez-Chacon, R., Alvarez de Toledo, G., Hammer, R.E., and Sudhof, T.C. (2000) Analysis of SCAMP1 function in secretory vesicle exocytosis by means of gene targeting in mice. J. Biol. Chem., in press.