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Andreas Bergmann, Ph.D.

Present Title & Affiliation

Primary Appointment

Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Division of Basic Science Research, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

Office Address

The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
1515 Holcombe Blvd.
Unit Number: 1000
Houston, TX 77030
Room Number: BSRB S11.8336B
Phone: (713) 834 6294
Fax: (713) 834 6291

Education & Training

Degree-Granting Education

1996 Max-Planck-Institut fur Entwicklungsbiologie, Tübingen, Germany, Dr. rer. nat. (Ph.D.), Biology/Genetics

Selected Publications

Peer-Reviewed Original Research Articles
1. 37. Allton K, Jain AK, Herz H-M, Tsai W-W, Jung SY, Qin J, Bergmann A, Johnson RL and Barton MC. Trim24 targets endogenous p53 for degradation. PNAS USA. In Press.
2. 33. Herz H-M, Woodfield SE, Chen Z, Bolduc C, and Bergmann A. Common and distinct genetic properties of ESCRT-II components in Drosophila. PLoS ONE 4(1):e4165, 2009.
3. Fan Y, Bergmann A. Distinct mechanisms of apoptosis-induced compensatory proliferation in proliferating and differentiating tissues in the Drosophila eye. Developmental Cell 14:399-410, 2008.
4. Wang Y, Werz C, Xu D, Chen Z, Li Y, Hafen E, Bergmann A. Drosophila cbl is essential for control of cell differentiation and cell death in the developing eye. PLoS ONE 3(1):e1447, 2008.
5. Ditzel M, Broemer M, Tenev T, Bolduc C, Lee TV, Rigbolt KTG, Elliott R, Zvelebil M, Blagoev B, Bergmann A, and Meier P. Inactivation of Effector Caspases through non-degradative Polyubiquitylation. Molecular Cell 32:540-553, 2008.
6. Lee TV, Ding T, Chan Z, Rajendran V, Scherr M, Lackey M, Bolduc C, Bergmann A. The E1-ubiquitin-acitivating-enzyme uba1 in Drosophila controls apoptosis autonomously and tissue growth non-autonomously. Development 135:43-52, 2008.
7. Srivastava M, Scherr H, Lackey M, Xu D, Chen Z, Lu J, Bergmann A. ARK, the Apaf-1 related killer in Drosophila, requires diverse domains for its activity. Cell Death and Differentiation 14:92-102, 2007.
8. Mendes CS, Arama E, Brown S, Scherr H, Srivastava M, Bergmann A, Steller H, Mollereau B. Cytochrome c-d regulates developmental apoptosis in the Drosophila retina. EMBO Rep, 8/2006. PMID: 16906130.
9. Arama E, Bader M, Srivastava M, Bergmann A, Steller H. The two Drosophila cytochrome C proteins can function in both respiration and caspase activation. Embo J 25(1):232-43, 1/2006. PMID: 16362035.
10. Xu D, Wang Y, Willecke R, Chen Z, Ding T, Bergmann A. The effector caspases drICE and dcp-1 have partially overlapping functions in the apoptotic pathway in Drosophila. Cell Death and Differentiation 13:1697-1706, 2006.
11. Herz H-M, Chen Z, Scherr H, Lackey M, Bolduc C, Bergmann A. vps25 mosaics display non-autonomous cell survival and overgrowth, and autonomous apoptosis. Development 133:1871-1880, 2006.
12. Werz C, Lee TV, Lee PL, Lackey M, Bolduc C, Stein DS, Bergmann A. Mis-specified cells die by an active gene-directed process, or undergo developmental transformation by suppression of cell death in Drosophila. Development 132(24):5343-52, 12/2005. PMID: 16280349.
13. Xu D, Li Y, Arcaro M, Lackey M, Bergmann A. The CARD-carrying caspase Dronc is essential for most, but not all, developmental cell death in Drosophila. Development 132(9):2125-34, 5/2005. PMID: 15800001.
14. Sathyanarayana P, Barthwal MK, Lane ME, Acevedo SF, Skoulakis EM, Bergmann A, Rana A. Drosophila mixed lineage kinase/slipper, a missing biochemical link in Drosophila JNK signaling. Biochim Biophys Acta 1640(1):77-84, 4/2003. PMID: 12676357.
15. Sathyanarayana P, Barthwal MK, Kundu CN, Lane ME, Bergmann A, Tzivion G, Rana A. Activation of the Drosophila MLK by ceramide reveals TNF-alpha and ceramide as agonists of mammalian MLK3. Mol Cell 10(6):1527-33, 12/2002. PMID: 12504027.
16. Ryoo HD, Bergmann A, Gonen H, Ciechanover A, Steller H. Regulation of Drosophila IAP1 degradation and apoptosis by reaper and ubcD1. Nat Cell Biol 4(6):432-8, 6/2002. PMID: 12021769.
17. Bergmann A, Tugentman M, Shilo BZ, Steller H. Regulation of cell number by MAPK-dependent control of apoptosis: a mechanism for trophic survival signaling. Dev Cell 2(2):159-70, 2/2002. PMID: 11832242.
18. Towb, P, Bergmann, Aand Wasserman, SA. The protein kinase Pelle mediates feedback regulation in the Drosophila Toll signaling pathway. Development 128:4729 - 4736, 2001.
19. Song, Z, Guan, B, Bergmann, A, Nicholson, DW, Thornberry, NA, Peterson, EPand Steller, H. Biochemical and genetic interactions between Drosophila Caspases and the proapoptotic genes rpr, hid, and grim. Mol. Cell. Biol. 20:2907 - 2914, 2000.

Last updated: 9/10/2009