Jennifer A Benanti
Assistant Professor
Molecular, Cell and Cancer Biology
UMass Medical School
United States of America
Biography
Jennifer Benanti received her B.S. from the University of California, San Diego in 1996, and her Ph.D. from the University of Washington and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in 2003. She did her postdoctoral work at the University of California, San Francisco from 2004-2010, where she was supported by a Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation Fellowship and a Pathway to Independence Award from the NIH. Dr. Benanti joined the Program in Gene Function and Expression at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in spring 2010. She is a recipeint of the 2011 Smith Family Award for Excellence in Biomedical Research.
Research Interest
Cell Growth and Division,Transcriptional,Cell Proliferation,cell cycle study
Publications
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Arsenault HE, Roy J, Mapa CE, Cyert MS, Benanti JA (2015) Hcm1 integrates signals from Cdk1 and calcineurin to control cell proliferation. Mol Biol Cell. 26: 3570-3577.
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Benanti JA (2016) Create, activate, destroy, repeat: Cdk1 controls proliferation by limiting transcription factor activity. Curr Genet. 62: 271-276.
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Doughty TW, Arsenault HE, Benanti JA (2016) Levels of Ycg1 Limit Condensin Function during the Cell Cycle. PLoS Genet. 12: e1006216.
