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Helen Diller Family Compr Cancer Ctr
LETICIA MÁRQUEZ-MAGAÑA, PHD

Professor of Biology, San Francisco State University
Investigator, Comprehensive Minority Institution/Cancer Center Partnership, San Francisco State University and UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center

CONTACT

marquez@sfsu.edu
(415) 338-3289 (voice)

Dept. of Biology, San Francisco State University; 1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94132

additional websites:

Márquez-Magaña Lab Website

EDUCATION

Stanford University, B.S./M.S., 1981, Biological Sciences
University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D., 1991, Biochemistry
Stanford Medical Center, Postdoc, 1991-1994, Molecular Pharmacology

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1994-1998

Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, San Francisco State University

1998-2004

Associate Professor, Department of Biology, San Francisco State University

2004-present

Professor, Department of Biology, San Francisco State University

HONORS & AWARDS

1985-1986

Patricia Robert Harris Fellowship, U.S. Department of Education

1986-1989

NSF Minority Predoctoral Research Fellowship

1990

National Achievement Award for Student Leadership, HENAAC

1989-1991

NIH Minority Graduate Research Assistantship

1991-1994

NSF Minority Postdoctoral Research Fellowship

1996

Presidential Award for Professional Development

1996

Recognition for Excellence in Advising

1996-2001

NSF CAREER Award for Young Investigators

1998

Faculty Merit Award for Excellence in Teaching

1999

Faculty Merit Award for Excellence in Teaching

2001

AAAS National Mentor Award

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Helmann, J.D., L.M. Márquez, and M.J. Chamberlin. 1988. Cloning, Sequencing, and Disruption of the Bacillus subtilis Sigma-28 Gene. J. Bacteriol. 170:1568-1574.

Márquez, L.M., J.D. Helmann, E.F. Ferrari, H.M. Parker, G.W. Ordal, and M.J. Chamberlin. 1990. Studies of Sigma-D Dependent Functions in Bacillus subtilis. J. Bacteriol. 172:3435-3443.

Hanlon, D.W., L.M. Márquez-Magaña, P.B. Carpenter, M.J. Chamberlin, and G.W. Ordal. 1992. Sequence and characterization of Bacillus subtilis CheW. J. Biol. Chem. 267:12055-12060.

Márquez-Magaña, L. M., and M. J. Chamberlin. 1994. Characterization of the sigD transcription unit of Bacillus subtilis. J. Bacteriol. 176:2427-2434.

Márquez-Magaña, L.M., D. B. Mirel, and M.J. Chamberlin. 1994. Regulation of SigD expression and activity by spo0, abrB, and sin gene products in Bacillus subtilis. J. of Bacteriol. 176:2435-2438.

Nuijten, P., L.M. Márquez-Magaña, and B.A. van der Zeijst. 1995. Analysis of flagellin gene expression in flag-ellar phase variants of Campylobacter jejuni 81116. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 67:377-383.

Estacio, W., S. Santa Anna-Arriola, M. Adedipe, and L.M. Márquez-Magaña. 1998. Dual promoters are re-sponsible for transcription initiation of the fla/che operon of Bacillus subtilis. J. of Bacteriol. 180:3548-3555.

Mirel, D.B., W. Estacio, M. Mathieu, E. Olmsted, J. Ramirez, and L.M. Márquez-Magaña. 2000. Environmental regulation of SigD-dependent gene expression in Bacillus subtilis. J. Bacteriol., 182:3055-3062.

West, J.T., W. Estacio, and L.M. Márquez-Magaña. 2000. Relative roles of the fla/chePA, PD-3, and PsigD pro-moters in regulating motility and sigD expression in Bacillus subtilis, J. of Bacteriol., 182:4841-4848.

Bergara, F., C. Ibarra, J. Iwamasa, J.C. Patarroyo, R. Aguilera, and L.M. Márquez-Magaña. 2003. CodY is re-sponsible for nutritional repression of flagellar expression in Bacillus subtilis, J. Bacteriol., 185, 3118-3126.

Cao M., L. Salzberg, C.S. Tsai, T. Mascher, C. Bonilla, T. Wang, R.W. Ye, L.M. Márquez-Magaña, and J.D. Helmann. 2003. Regulation of the Bacillus subtilis extracytoplasmic function protein sigma(Y) and its target promoters. J Bacteriol. 185:4883-4890.

Werhane, H., M. Mendel, M. Zimmer, G.W. Ordal, and L.M. Márquez-Magaña. 2004. The last gene of the fla/che operon in Bacillus subtilis is required for maximal SigD Function, J. of Bacteriol., 186:4025-4029.

1/27/06

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