Michael Ruppert

Biography

Course Co-Director (with J. Horabin, S. Lobo-Ruppert, and P. Detloff), Advanced Eucaryotic Molecular Genetics (BMG731); course offered alternate years, 8 one-hour lectures (1996-1998) Course Co-Director (with S. Lobo-Ruppert), Cell Cycle, upper level BMG course, biweekly journal club format supervised by Co-Directors (1997) Lecturer, Tumor Biology (PHY792, Sham Kakar, Dept. of Phys. & Biophys., Director), “Genetic changes during tumor progression”, two one-hour lectures (2000) Lecturer, Human Biochemistry and Genetics I (Medical Biochemistry, Kenneth Taylor, Dept. of Biochem. and Mol. Genet., Director) clinical correlation for “Mutations and Cancer”, one one-hour lecture yearly (2001-02) Lecturer, Cellular and Molecular Biology (CMB) IV (E. Sztul, Dept. of Cell Biology, Director), “Cell cycle”, two one-hour lectures to first year graduate students (1999-2002) Lecturer, Integrated Biomedical Sciences (Bob Diasio, Director), “Oncogenes”, two one-hour lectures yearly to first year graduate students Lecturer, Breast Cancer Causation (Coral Lamartiniere, Dept. of Pharmacology, Director), “Oncogenes and Tumor Suppressor Genes in Breast Cancer”, two one-hour lectures yearly Lecturer, Biology of Neoplasia (Dan Welch, Dept. of Pathology, Director), one two-hour lecture annually

Research Interest

identification and functional analysis of genes important in the early steps (initiation) of carcinoma genetic progression. We have focused upon two zinc finger transcription factors: