Epernicus: Thomas Vaccari, Ph.D.

Thomas Vaccari, Ph.D.

Position:
Assistant Professor

IFOM, FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology Foundation (Milan, Italy)
Advisor:
David Bilder
Degrees:

Ph.D., biology, Heidelberg University (Heidelberg, Germany)
Past Advisors:

Anne Ephrussi (as Graduate Student - Ph.D.)

Marco E. Bianchi (as Undergraduate Student)
Research:
Other Experience:
2004-2009 postdoc, UC Berkeley

1999-2003 Predoc, EMBL

1999 visiting, Mario Negri Institute, Milan

1996-1998 Undergrad, University of Milan and Dibit

Communities:

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Thomas Vaccari's Publications (10)

Endosomal entry regulates Notch receptor activation in Drosophila melanogaster.
Vaccari T, Lu H, Kanwar R, Fortini ME, Bilder D

The Journal of cell biology. 2008 Feb 25;180(4):755-62
A mosaic genetic screen for Drosophila neoplastic tumor suppressor genes based on defective pupation.
Menut L, Vaccari T, Dionne H, Hill J, Wu G, Bilder D

Genetics. 2007 Nov;177(3):1667-77
ESCRTs and Fab1 regulate distinct steps of autophagy.
Rusten TE, Vaccari T, Lindmo K, Rodahl LM, Nezis IP, Sem-Jacobsen C, Wendler F, Vincent JP, Brech A, Bilder D, Stenmark H

Current biology : CB. 2007 Oct 23;17(20):1817-25
The Drosophila tumor suppressor vps25 prevents nonautonomous overproliferation by regulating notch trafficking.
Vaccari T, Bilder D

Developmental cell. 2005 Nov;9(5):687-98
The Drosophila PAR-1 spacer domain is required for lateral membrane association and for polarization of follicular epithelial cells.
Vaccari T, Rabouille C, Ephrussi A

Current biology : CB. 2005 Feb 8;15(3):255-61
The fusome and microtubules enrich Par-1 in the oocyte, where it effects polarization in conjunction with Par-3, BicD, Egl, and dynein.
Vaccari T, Ephrussi A

Current biology : CB. 2002 Sep 3;12(17):1524-8
Hyperpolarization-activated cyclic nucleotide-gated channel 1 is a molecular determinant of the cardiac pacemaker current I(f).
Moroni A, Gorza L, Beltrame M, Gravante B, Vaccari T, Bianchi ME, Altomare C, Longhi R, Heurteaux C, Vitadello M, Malgaroli A, DiFrancesco D

The Journal of biological chemistry. 2001 Aug 3;276(31):29233-41
Biologic response of B lymphoma cells to anti-CD20 monoclonal antibody rituximab in vitro: CD55 and CD59 regulate complement-mediated cell lysis.
Golay J, Zaffaroni L, Vaccari T, Lazzari M, Borleri GM, Bernasconi S, Tedesco F, Rambaldi A, Introna M

Blood. 2000 Jun 15;95(12):3900-8
The human gene coding for HCN2, a pacemaker channel of the heart.
Vaccari T, Moroni A, Rocchi M, Gorza L, Bianchi ME, Beltrame M, DiFrancesco D

Biochimica et biophysica acta. 1999 Sep 3;1446(3):419-25
Hmg4, a new member of the Hmg1/2 gene family.
Vaccari T, Beltrame M, Ferrari S, Bianchi ME

Genomics. 1998 Apr 15;49(2):247-52

One Figure

Cover art from Vaccari and Bilder 2005.

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