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Fernando Benavides

Present Title & Affiliation

Primary Appointment

Associate Professor NTRA, Department of Molecular Carcinogenesis, Division of Basic Science Research, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Smithville, TX

Dual/Joint/Adjunct Appointment

Adjunct Associate Professor, College of Veterinary Medicine Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
Associate Faculty Member, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (GSBS), Houston, TX
Adjunct Graduate Faculty, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX

Education & Training

Degree-Granting Education

1998 University of Buenos Aires, School of Veterinary Medicine, Buenos Aires, Argentina, PHD, Genetics
1986 University of Buenos Aires, School of Veterinary Medicine, Buenos Aires, Argentina, DVM, Veterinary Medicine

Board Certifications

7/2003 American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine (ACLAM)

Experience/Service

Administrative Appointments/Responsibilities

Director of Genetic Services, Department of Carcinogenesis, Research Animal Support Facility, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Smithville, TX, 4/2006-present
Veterinarian/Geneticist, Department of Carcinogenesis, Research Animal Support Facility, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Smithville, TX, 7/2003-present

Other Appointments/Responsibilities

Member, Scientific Council of Universidade Estadual de Campinas (CEMIB/UNICAMP), Campinas, SP, Brazil, 9/2010-present

Institutional Committee Activities

Member, Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC), 9/2006-present
Member, Breeding Colony Management Project Committee, 9/2004-present

Selected Publications

Peer-Reviewed Original Research Articles
1. Fu J, Jin F, Fong K, Bassi DE, Lopez De Cicco R, Braunewell K, Conti CJ, Benavides F, Klein-Szanto AJP.. Expression of VILIP-1 in Mouse Basal Keratinocytes Results in Decreased Skin Tumor Development. PLoS One 5(4):e1019, 4/2010. e-Pub 2010.
2. Perez CJ, Jaubert J, Guénet J-L, Barnhart KF, Ross-Inta CM, Quintanilla VC, DiGiovanni J, Gimenez-Conti I, Giulivi C, Kusewitt DF, Conti CJ, Benavides F. Two hypomorphic alleles of mouse Ass1 as a new animal model of citrullinemia type I, and other hyperammonemic syndromes. American Journal of Pathology. American Journal of Pathology 177(4):1958-1968, 2010.
3. Rojas P, Benavides F, Blando J, Perez C, Cardenas K, Richie E, Knudsen ES, Johnson DG, Senderowicz AM, Rodriguez-Puebla ML, Conti CJ. Enhanced skin carcinogenesis and lack of thymus hyperplasia in transgenic mice expressing human cyclin D1b (CCND1b). Mol Carcinog 48(6):508-16, 6/2009. e-Pub 10/2008. PMID: 18942117.
4. Blando J, Portis M, Benavides F, Alexander A, Mills G, Dave B, Conti CJ, Kim J, Walker CL. PTEN deficiency is fully penetrant for prostate adenocarcinoma in C57BL/6 mice via mTOR-dependent growth. Am J Pathol 174(5):1869-79, 5/2009. PMCID: PMC2671275.
5. Benavides F, Oberyszyn TM, Van Buskirk A, Kusewitt DF.. The hairless mouse in skin research. J Dermatol Sci 53(1):10-8, 1/2009. PMCID: PMC2646590.
6. Rojas P, Cadenas MB, Lin PC, Benavides F, Conti CJ, Rodriguez-Puebla ML. Cyclin D2 and cyclin D3 play opposite roles in mouse skin carcinogenesis. Oncogene 26(12):1723-30, 2007. PMID: 16983339.
7. Benavides F, Gomez G, Venables-Griffith A, Lambertz I, Flores M, Angel JM, Fuchs-Young R, Richie ER, Conti CJ. Differential susceptibility to chemically induced thymic lymphomas in SENCARB and SSIN inbred mice. Mol Carcinog 45(7):543-8, 7/2006. PMID: 16479612.
8. Kim E, Rundhaug JE, Benavides F, Yang P, Newman RA, Fischer SM. An antitumorigenic role for murine 8S-lipoxygenase in skin carcinogenesis. Oncogene 24(7):1174-87, 2/2005. PMID: 15558016.
9. Benavides F, Conti CJ, LaCava M, Flores M, Glasscock E, Sternik G, Gimenez-Conti IB, Johnston DA, Dunsford HA, Goldstein LS, Rodriguez LV. Loss of heterozygosity analysis of mouse pulmonary adenomas induced by coal tar. Environ Mol Mutagen 41(4):300-8, 2003. PMID: 12717785.
10. Benavides F, Zamisch M, Flores M, Campbell MR, Andrew SE, Angel JM, Licchesi J, Sternik G, Richie ER, Conti CJ. Application of inter-simple sequence repeat PCR to mouse models: assessment of genetic alterations in carcinogenesis. Genes Chromosomes Cancer 35(4):299-310, 12/2002. PMID: 12378524.
11. Benavides F, Starost MF, Flores M, Gimenez-Conti IB, Guenet JL, Conti CJ. Impaired hair follicle morphogenesis and cycling with abnormal epidermal differentiation in nackt mice, a cathepsin L-deficient mutation. Am J Pathol 161(2):693-703, 8/2002. PMCID: PMC1850757.
12. Benavides F, Venables A, Poetschke Klug H, Glasscock E, Rudensky A, Gomez M, Martin Palenzuela N, Guenet JL, Richie ER, Conti CJ. The CD4 T cell-deficient mouse mutation nackt (nkt) involves a deletion in the cathepsin L (CtsI) gene. Immunogenetics 53(3):233-42, 4/2001. PMID: 11398968.

Grant & Contract Support

Title: Pilot Project Grant. Center for Research on Environmental Disease (CRED)
Funding Source: NIEHS
Role: Principal Investigator
Duration: 7/1/2002 - 6/30/2003

Last updated: 1/10/2011