Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, UCSF
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Education
Stanford University, Stanford, California, B.S., M.S., 1986, Biological Sciences
University of California, San Francisco, Ph.D., 1993, Genetics
University of California, San Francisco, M.D., 1995, Medicine
Whitehead Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Postdoctoral, 1995-1999, Signal Transduction
Professional Experience
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1986-1987
Medical Training: Dept of Microbiology, UCSF. Dr. Harold E. Varmus, Ribosomal Frameshifting in Retroviral Gene Expression.
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1989-1993
Graduate: Dept of Biochemistry and Biophysics, UCSF. Dr. Christine Guthrie, Spliceosomal RNA Rearrangements: Implications for the Mechanism of RNA Splicing.
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1995-1999
Postdoctoral: Whitehead Institute. Dr. Gerald R. Fink, Mechanisms that Determine the Specificity of MAP Kinase Signal Transduction.
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1999-2005
Assistant Professor, Dept of Biochemistry and Biophysics, UCSF 2005-2008 Associate Professor, Dept of Biochemistry and Biophysics, UCSF
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2008-present
Professor, Dept of Biochemistry and Biophysics, UCSF
Honors & Awards
- 1987
Dean's Prize for Student Research, University of California, San Francisco - 1988
Dean's Prize for Student Research, University of California, San Francisco - 1991-1992
Chancellor's Fellowship, University of California, San Francisco - 1996
Finalist, Pharmacia-Science Prize - 1995-1998
Helen Hay Whitney Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship - 1998-1999
Burroughs-Wellcome Fund Career Development Award - 2000-2005
David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship for Scientists and Engineers - 1999-2002
Burroughs-Wellcome Fund Career Development Award - 2005-2010
Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Scholar
Selected Publications
- Butts A, Koselny K, Chabrier-Roselló Y, Semighini CP, Brown JC, Wang X, Annadurai S, Didone L, Tabroff J, Childers WE, Abou-Gharbia M, Wellington M, Cardenas ME, Madhani HD, Heitman J, Krysan DJ. Estrogen Receptor Antagonists Are Anti-Cryptococcal Agents That Directly Bind EF Hand Proteins and Synergize with Fluconazole In Vivo. MBio. 2014; 5(1).
View on PubMed - Madhani HD. snRNA Catalysts in the Spliceosome's Ancient Core. Cell. 2013 Dec 5; 155(6):1213-5.
View on PubMed - Dumesic PA, Madhani HD. Recognizing the enemy within: licensing RNA-guided genome defense. Trends Biochem Sci. 2014 Jan; 39(1):25-34.
View on PubMed - Madhani HD. The frustrated gene: origins of eukaryotic gene expression. Cell. 2013 Nov 7; 155(4):744-9.
View on PubMed - Dumesic PA, Madhani HD. The spliceosome as a transposon sensor. RNA Biol. 2013 Nov 1; 10(11):1653-60.
View on PubMed - Marina DB, Shankar S, Natarajan P, Finn KJ, Madhani HD. A conserved ncRNA-binding protein recruits silencing factors to heterochromatin through an RNAi-independent mechanism. Genes Dev. 2013 Sep 1; 27(17):1851-6.
View on PubMed - Al-Sady B, Madhani HD, Narlikar GJ. Division of labor between the chromodomains of HP1 and Suv39 methylase enables coordination of heterochromatin spread. Mol Cell. 2013 Jul 11; 51(1):80-91.
View on PubMed - Canzio D, Liao M, Naber N, Pate E, Larson A, Wu S, Marina DB, Garcia JF, Madhani HD, Cooke R, Schuck P, Cheng Y, Narlikar GJ. A conformational switch in HP1 releases auto-inhibition to drive heterochromatin assembly. Nature. 2013 Apr 18; 496(7445):377-81.
View on PubMed - Dumesic PA, Natarajan P, Chen C, Drinnenberg IA, Schiller BJ, Thompson J, Moresco JJ, Yates JR, Bartel DP, Madhani HD. Stalled spliceosomes are a signal for RNAi-mediated genome defense. Cell. 2013 Feb 28; 152(5):957-68.
View on PubMed - Brown JC, Madhani HD. Approaching the functional annotation of fungal virulence factors using cross-species genetic interaction profiling. PLoS Genet. 2012; 8(12):e1003168.
View on PubMed - Xu M, Soloveychik M, Ranger M, Schertzberg M, Shah Z, Raisner R, Venkatasubrahmanyan S, Tsui K, Gebbia M, Hughes T, van Bakel H, Nislow C, Madhani HD, Meneghini MD. Timing of transcriptional quiescence during gametogenesis is controlled by global histone H3K4 demethylation. Dev Cell. 2012 Nov 13; 23(5):1059-71.
View on PubMed - Braun S, Madhani HD. Shaping the landscape: mechanistic consequences of ubiquitin modification of chromatin. EMBO Rep. 2012 Jul; 13(7):619-30.
View on PubMed - Rougemaille M, Braun S, Coyle S, Dumesic PA, Garcia JF, Isaac RS, Libri D, Narlikar GJ, Madhani HD. Ers1 links HP1 to RNAi. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012 Jul 10; 109(28):11258-63.
View on PubMed - Madhani HD. Quorum sensing in fungi: Q&A. PLoS Pathog. 2011 Oct; 7(10):e1002301.
View on PubMed - Kiely CM, Marguerat S, Garcia JF, Madhani HD, Bähler J, Winston F. Spt6 is required for heterochromatic silencing in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Mol Cell Biol. 2011 Oct; 31(20):4193-204.
View on PubMed - El-Samad H, Madhani HD. Can a systems perspective help us appreciate the biological meaning of small effects? Dev Cell. 2011 Jul 19; 21(1):11-3.
View on PubMed - Charles GM, Chen C, Shih SC, Collins SR, Beltrao P, Zhang X, Sharma T, Tan S, Burlingame AL, Krogan NJ, Madhani HD, Narlikar GJ. Site-specific acetylation mark on an essential chromatin-remodeling complex promotes resistance to replication stress. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 Jun 28; 108(26):10620-5.
View on PubMed - Chun CD, Brown JC, Madhani HD. A major role for capsule-independent phagocytosis-inhibitory mechanisms in mammalian infection by Cryptococcus neoformans. Cell Host Microbe. 2011 Mar 17; 9(3):243-51.
View on PubMed - Braun S, Garcia JF, Rowley M, Rougemaille M, Shankar S, Madhani HD. The Cul4-Ddb1(Cdt)² ubiquitin ligase inhibits invasion of a boundary-associated antisilencing factor into heterochromatin. Cell. 2011 Jan 7; 144(1):41-54.
View on PubMed - Canzio D, Chang EY, Shankar S, Kuchenbecker KM, Simon MD, Madhani HD, Narlikar GJ, Al-Sady B. Chromodomain-mediated oligomerization of HP1 suggests a nucleosome-bridging mechanism for heterochromatin assembly. Mol Cell. 2011 Jan 7; 41(1):67-81.
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