Professor, Department of Pathology and Director of the Center for Translational Research in the Molecular Genetics of Cancer, UCSF; Director for the Program in Cell Cycling and Signaling, UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
Education
University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, B.S., 1973, Zoology
Washington University, St. Louis, MO, Ph.D., 1980, Molecular Biology
Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 1976-1980, Predoctoral Fellow
Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 1981-1984, Postdoctoral Fellow
Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 1984-1985, Senior Research Associate
Professional Experience
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1974-1976
Ph.D. Candidate, Dept. of Pathology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (transferred)
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1976-1980
Pre-doctoral Fellow in Program for Cellular & Molecular Biology, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri (advisor, Dr. M. Lieberman)
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1980-1981
Postdoctoral Fellow in Dept. of Microbiology & Immunology, Washington Univ., St. Louis, MO
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1981-1985
Postdoctoral Fellow/Senior Research Associate in Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, California (advisor, Dr. R.T. Schimke)
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1985-1994
Assistant/Associate Professor of Pathology and Member: UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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1994-Present
Professor of Pathology, Director of the Center for Translational Research in the Molecular Genetics of Cancer, Member: UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center – Director for the Program in Cell Cycling and Signaling; Program in Biological Sciences (PIBS); Program in Biomedical Sciences (BMS), University of California at San Francisco, CA
Selected Publications
- Lowdon RF, Zhang B, Bilenky M, Mauro T, Li D, Gascard P, Sigaroudinia M, Farnham PJ, Bastian BC, Tlsty TD, Marra MA, Hirst M, Costello JF, Wang T, Cheng JB. Regulatory network decoded from epigenomes of surface ectoderm-derived cell types. Nat Commun. 2014; 5:5442.
View on PubMed - DeFilippis RA, Fordyce C, Patten K, Chang H, Zhao J, Fontenay GV, Kerlikowske K, Parvin B, Tlsty TD. Stress signaling from human mammary epithelial cells contributes to phenotypes of mammographic density. Cancer Res. 2014 Sep 15; 74(18):5032-44.
View on PubMed - Wu A, Liao D, Tlsty TD, Sturm JC, Austin RH. Game theory in the death galaxy: interaction of cancer and stromal cells in tumour microenvironment. Interface Focus. 2014 Aug 6; 4(4):20140028.
View on PubMed - Liao D, Tlsty TD. Evolutionary game theory for physical and biological scientists. I. Training and validating population dynamics equations. Interface Focus. 2014 Aug 6; 4(4):20140037.
View on PubMed - Liao D, Tlsty TD. Evolutionary game theory for physical and biological scientists. II. Population dynamics equations can be associated with interpretations. Interface Focus. 2014 Aug 6; 4(4):20140038.
View on PubMed - Wu A, Loutherback K, Lambert G, Estévez-Salmerón L, Tlsty TD, Austin RH, Sturm JC. Cell motility and drug gradients in the emergence of resistance to chemotherapy. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2013 Oct 1; 110(40):16103-8.
View on PubMed - Zhang B, Zhou Y, Lin N, Lowdon RF, Hong C, Nagarajan RP, Cheng JB, Li D, Stevens M, Lee HJ, Xing X, Zhou J, Sundaram V, Elliott G, Gu J, Shi T, Gascard P, Sigaroudinia M, Tlsty TD, Kadlecek T, Weiss A, O'Geen H, Farnham PJ, Maire CL, Ligon KL, Madden PA, Tam A, Moore R, Hirst M, Marra MA, Zhang B, Costello JF, Wang T. Functional DNA methylation differences between tissues, cell types, and across individuals discovered using the M&M algorithm. Genome Res. 2013 Sep; 23(9):1522-40.
View on PubMed - Xie M, Hong C, Zhang B, Lowdon RF, Xing X, Li D, Zhou X, Lee HJ, Maire CL, Ligon KL, Gascard P, Sigaroudinia M, Tlsty TD, Kadlecek T, Weiss A, O'Geen H, Farnham PJ, Madden PA, Mungall AJ, Tam A, Kamoh B, Cho S, Moore R, Hirst M, Marra MA, Costello JF, Wang T. DNA hypomethylation within specific transposable element families associates with tissue-specific enhancer landscape. Nat Genet. 2013 Jul; 45(7):836-41.
View on PubMed - López-Díaz FJ, Gascard P, Balakrishnan SK, Zhao J, Del Rincon SV, Spruck C, Tlsty TD, Emerson BM. Coordinate transcriptional and translational repression of p53 by TGF-ß1 impairs the stress response. Mol Cell. 2013 May 23; 50(4):552-64.
View on PubMed - Roy S, Gascard P, Dumont N, Zhao J, Pan D, Petrie S, Margeta M, Tlsty TD. Rare somatic cells from human breast tissue exhibit extensive lineage plasticity. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2013 Mar 19; 110(12):4598-603.
View on PubMed - Dumont N, Liu B, Defilippis RA, Chang H, Rabban JT, Karnezis AN, Tjoe JA, Marx J, Parvin B, Tlsty TD. Breast fibroblasts modulate early dissemination, tumorigenesis, and metastasis through alteration of extracellular matrix characteristics. Neoplasia. 2013 Mar; 15(3):249-62.
View on PubMed - A physical sciences network characterization of non-tumorigenic and metastatic cells. Sci Rep. 2013; 3:1449.
View on PubMed - Fordyce CA, Patten KT, Fessenden TB, DeFilippis R, Hwang ES, Zhao J, Tlsty TD. Cell-extrinsic consequences of epithelial stress: activation of protumorigenic tissue phenotypes. Breast Cancer Res. 2012; 14(6):R155.
View on PubMed - DeFilippis RA, Tlsty TD. Hello out there...is anybody listening? Cancer Discov. 2012 Dec; 2(12):1084-6.
View on PubMed - Liao D, Estévez-Salmerón L, Tlsty TD. Conceptualizing a tool to optimize therapy based on dynamic heterogeneity. Phys Biol. 2012 Dec; 9(6):065005.
View on PubMed - Liao D, Estévez-Salmerón L, Tlsty TD. Generalized principles of stochasticity can be used to control dynamic heterogeneity. Phys Biol. 2012 Dec; 9(6):065006.
View on PubMed - DeFilippis RA, Chang H, Dumont N, Rabban JT, Chen YY, Fontenay GV, Berman HK, Gauthier ML, Zhao J, Hu D, Marx JJ, Tjoe JA, Ziv E, Febbraio M, Kerlikowske K, Parvin B, Tlsty TD. CD36 repression activates a multicellular stromal program shared by high mammographic density and tumor tissues. Cancer Discov. 2012 Sep; 2(9):826-39.
View on PubMed - Shah SP, Roth A, Goya R, Oloumi A, Ha G, Zhao Y, Turashvili G, Ding J, Tse K, Haffari G, Bashashati A, Prentice LM, Khattra J, Burleigh A, Yap D, Bernard V, McPherson A, Shumansky K, Crisan A, Giuliany R, Heravi-Moussavi A, Rosner J, Lai D, Birol I, Varhol R, Tam A, Dhalla N, Zeng T, Ma K, Chan SK, Griffith M, Moradian A, Cheng SW, Morin GB, Watson P, Gelmon K, Chia S, Chin SF, Curtis C, Rueda OM, Pharoah PD, Damaraju S, Mackey J, Hoon K, Harkins T, Tadigotla V, Sigaroudinia M, Gascard P, Tlsty T, Costello JF, Meyer IM, Eaves CJ, Wasserman WW, Jones S, Huntsman D, Hirst M, Caldas C, Marra MA, Aparicio S. The clonal and mutational evolution spectrum of primary triple-negative breast cancers. Nature. 2012 Jun 21; 486(7403):395-9.
View on PubMed - Radisky DC, Santisteban M, Berman HK, Gauthier ML, Frost MH, Reynolds CA, Vierkant RA, Pankratz VS, Visscher DW, Tlsty TD, Hartmann LC. p16(INK4a) expression and breast cancer risk in women with atypical hyperplasia. Cancer Prev Res (Phila). 2011 Dec; 4(12):1953-60.
View on PubMed - Tlsty TD. Tissue states provide novel insights into attributes that drive metastasis. Cancer Cell. 2011 Sep 13; 20(3):285-6.
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