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Helen Diller Family Compr Cancer Ctr
LOUIS F. REICHARDT, PHD

Jack D. and DeLoris Lange Endowed Chair in Cell Physiology, UCSF
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Member, UCSF Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program (BMS) and Herbert Boyer Program in Biological Sciences (PIBS)

CONTACT

lfr@cgl.ucsf.edu
(415) 476-3976 (voice)
(415) 476-9914 (fax)

Box 2611, UCSF; San Francisco, CA 94143-2611

additional websites:

Reichardt Lab Website

EDUCATION

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, A.B., 1964, Biology
Stanford University, Stanford, CA, Ph.D., 1972, Biochemistry

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1972-74

Research Fellow, University of Geneva

1974-77

Research Fellow, Dept. Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School

1977-85

Asst. to Assoc. Professor, Physiology & Biochemistry/Biophysics, UCSF

1985-present

Professor, Physiology & Biochemistry/Biophysics, UCSF

1985-present

Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

l989-present

Director, Neuroscience Program, UCSF

1998-present

Director, Program in Biological Sciences, UCSF

HONORS & AWARDS

1960-1964

National Merit Scholar

1964-1965

Fulbright Scholar

1964 (declined)

NSF Fellowship

1972-74

Fellow - Jane Coffin Childs

1974-1977

NRSA Postdoctoral Fellowship

1978-1981

McKnight Scholar

1978-1980

Basil O'Conner Award

1979-1983

Sloan Fellow

1980-1982

Wills Award

1985-86

Guggenheim Fellow

l988

Pres. Symp. lecturer, Ann. Mtg, Soc. Neurosci.

l988, l992

Grass lecturer

1989-96

Javits Award

l992

Fellow, AAAS

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

(of 153 total, 2001-present)

Kim, W.-Y., Fritzsch, B., Serls, A., Bakel, L.A., Huang, E.J., Reichardt, L.F., Barth, D.S., & Lee, J.E. (2001) NeuroD-null mice are deaf due to a severe loss of the inner ear sensory neurons during development. Development 128: 417-426.

Mischel, P.S., Smith, S.G., Vining, E.R., Valletta, J.S., Mobley, W.C. & Reichardt, L.F. (2001) The extracellular domain of p75NTR is necessary to inhibit neurotrophin-3 signaling through TrkA. J. Biol. Chem. 276: 11294-301.

Karlsson, M., Mayordomo, R., Reichardt, L.F., Catsicas, S., Karten, H.J., & Hallbook, F. (2001) Nerve growth factor is expressed by postmitotic avian retinal horizontal cells and supports their survival during development in an autocrine mode of action. Development 128: 471-479.

Huang, E.J, Liu, W., Fritzsch, B., Bianchi, L.M. Reichardt, L.F., & Xiang, M. (2000). Brn-3a is a transcriptional regulator of soma size, target field innervation and axon pathfinding of inner ear sensory neurons. Development 128: 2421-38.

Giehl, K.M., Rährig, S., Bonatz, H., Gutjahr, M., Leiner, B., Bartke, I., Yan, Q., Reichardt, L.F., Backus, C., Welcher, A.A., Dethleffsen, K., Mestres, P., & Meyer, M. (2001) Endogenous brain-derived neurotrophic factor and neurotrophin-3 antagonistically regulate survival of axotomized corticospinal neurons in vivo. J. Neuroscience 21: 3492-3502.

Fariñas, I., Jones, K.R., Tessarollo, L., Vigers, A.J., Huang, E., de Caprona, D.C., Reichardt, L.F., and Fritzsch, B. (2001) Spatial shaping of cochlear innervation by temporally-regulated neurotrophin expression. J. Neuroscience 21: 6170-80.

Brandenberger, R., Schmidt, A., Linton, J., Wang, D., Denda, S., Müller, U., & Reichardt, L.F. (2001) Identification and Characterization of a Novel ECM Protein Nephronectin that is Associated with Integrin 81 in the Embryonic Kidney. J. Cell Biol. 154: 447-458.

Rohrer B., LaVail M.M., Jones K.R., & Reichardt L.F. 2001. Neurotrophin Receptor TrkB activation is not required for the postnatal survival of retinal ganglion cells in vivo. Exp Neurol 172:81-91.

Feltri, M. L., Graus Porta, D., Previtali, S. C., Nodari, A., Migliavacca, B., Cassetti, A., Littlewood-Evans, A., Reichardt, L. F., Messing, A., Quattrini, A., Mueller, U. & Wrabetz, L. (2002). Conditional disruption of beta1 integrin in Schwann cells impedes interactions with axons. J Cell Biol 156, 199-209.

Rico, B., Xu, B., & Reichardt, L.F. (2002) TrkB receptor signaling is required for the establishment of GABAergic synapses in the cerebellum. Nature Neuroscience 5: 225-233.

Zhu, J., Motejlek, K., Wang, D., Zang, K., Schmidt, A. & Reichardt, L.F. (2002) 8 integrins are required forvascular morphogenesis in mouse embryos. Development 129, 2891-2903.

Cronk, K.M., Wilkinson, G.A., Grimes, R., Wheeler, E.F., Jhaveri, S., Fundin, B.T., Silos-Santiago, I., Tessarollo, L., Reichardt, L.F. & Rice, F.L. (2002) Diverse dependencies of developing Merkel innervation on the trkA and both full-length and truncated isoforms of trkC. Development 129:3739-3750.

Fünfschilling, U. & Reichardt, L.F. 2002. Cre-mediated recombination in rhombic lip derivatives. Genesis 33: 160-169.

Jullien, J., Guli, V., Reichardt, L.F., & Rudkin, B.B. 2002. Molecular kinetics of NGF receptor trafficking and activation. J. Biol. Chem. 277:38700-708.

Rohrer, B., Matthes, M., LaVail, M.M. & Reichardt, L.F. 2002. lack of p75 does not protect photoreceptors from light induced cell death. Exper. Eye Res. 76: 125-129.

Jullien, J., Guili, V., Ibanez, C., Reichardt, L.F. & Rudkin, B.B. 2002. Trafficking of TrkA-GFP chimera during NGF-induced differentiation. J. Biol. Chem. 278: 8706-16.

Tran, P.V., Lee, M.B., Marin, O., Xu, B., Jones, K.R., Reichardt, L.F. Rubenstein, J.R. & Ingraham, H.A. (2003) Requirement of the orphan nuclear receptor SF-1 in terminal differentiation of ventral medial hypothalamic neurons. Molec. Cell. Neurosci.22: 441-453.

Xu, B., Goulding, E., Zang, K., Cepoi, D., Cone, R.D., Jones, K.R., Tecott, L.H., & Reichardt, L.F. (2003). Brain-derived Neurotrophic Factor is a Component of the Melanocortin-4 Receptor Pathway in the Regulation of Energy Balance. Nature Neuroscience 6: 736-742.

Elul, T.M., Kimes, N.E., Kohwi, M., & Reichardt, L.F. (2003) Amino- and carboxyl-terminal domains of beta catenin initiate and shape axon arbors in retinal ganglion cells in vivo. J. Neuroscience 23:6567-6575.

Beggs, H.E., Schahin-Reed, D., Sretavan, D., Zang, K., Jones, K.R. Goebbels, S., Nave, K.-A., & Reichardt, L.F. (2003) FAK deficiency in cells contributing to the basal lamina results in cortical abnormalities resembling congenital muscular dystrophies. Neuron 40: 501-514.

Bamji, S.X., Shimazu, K., Kimes, N., Huelsken, J., Birchmeier, W., Lu, B., & Reichardt, L.F. (2003) Role of -catenin in synaptic vesicle localization and presynaptic assembly. Neuron. 40: 719-731.

Paredes, A., Romero, C., Disen, G.A., DeChiara, T.M., Reichardt, L.F., Cornea, A., Ojeda, S.R. & Xu, B. (2004) TrkB receptors are required for follicular growth and oocyte survival in the mammalian ovary. Dev. Biol. 267: 430-449.

Blaess, S., Graus-Porta, D., Belvindrah, R., Radakovits, R., Pons, S., Littlewood-Evans, A., Senften, M., Guo, H., Li, Y., Miner, J.H., Reichardt, L.F. & Müller, U. (2004) Defective Granule Cell Precursor Proliferation in the Absence of 1-Class Integrins. J. Neuroscience 24: 3402-3412.

Chan, J.R., Watkins, T.A., Cosgaya, J.M., Zhang, C.-Z., Chen, L., Reichardt, L.F., Shooter, E.M., & Barres. B.A. (2004) NGF controls axonal receptivity to myelination by Schwann cells or oligodendrocytes. Neuron 43: 183-191.

Moqrich, A., Earley, T.J., Watson, J., Andahazy, M., Backus, C., Martin-Zanca, D., Wright, D.E., Reichardt, L.F. & Patapoutian, A. (2004) Expressing TrkC from the TrkA locus causes a subset of dorsal root ganglia neurons to switch fate. Nature Neuroscience 7: 812-818.

Rico, B., Beggs, H.E., Schahin-Reed, D., Kimes, N., Schmidt, A. & Reichardt. (2004) Control of axonal branching and synapse formation by focal adhesion kinase. Nature Neuroscience 7: 1059-1069.

Liu, G, Beggs, H., Jürgensen, C., Park, H.-T., Tang, H., Gorski, J. , Jones K. R., Reichardt, L. F., Wu, J., & Rao, Y. 2004. Netrin Requires the Focal Adhesion Kinase and the Src Family Kinases to Induce Axon Outgrowth and Attraction. Nature Neuroscience 7: 1222-32.

Wiggins, A. K., Wei, G., Doxakis, E., Wong, C., Tang, A. A., Zang, K., Luo, E. J., Neve, R. L., Reichardt, L. F., and Huang, E. J. (2004): Interaction of Brn3a and HIPK2 mediates transcriptional repression of sensory neuron survival. J Cell Biol. 167:257-267.

Rohrer, B., Blanco, R., Marc, R.E., Bok, D., Schneeweis, D., & Reichardt, L.F. (2004) Functional glutamate-mediated pathways in the trkB mutant retina. Visual Neuroscience. In press

Funfschilling, U., Ng, Y.-G., Zang, K., Miyazaki, J.-I., Reichardt, L.F., & Rice, F.L. TrkC kinase expression in distinct subsets of cutaneous trigeminal innervation and non-neuronal cells. J. Comp. Neurol. 480: 392-414.

1/15/05

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