Melissa Reeves, PhD
Sandler Faculty Fellow, Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology, UCSF
Education
Harvard University, Boston, MA, B.A., 06/2008, Chemistry & Physics
University of California, San Francisco, CA, Ph.D., 06/2017, Biomedical Sciences
Honors & Awards
- 2004-2008
American Chemical Society Scholar - 2008
Thesis project nominated for Hoopes Prize, Harvard University - 2008
Graduated Magna Cum Laude with highest honors in field of Physics & Chemistry, Harvard - 2012
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Honorable Mention - 2015
UCSF Grad Slam "3-Minute Thesis" Competition Finalist
Selected Publications
- McCreery MQ, Halliwill KD, Chin D, Delrosario R, Hirst G, Vuong P, Jen KY,Hewinson J, Adams DJ, Balmain A. Evolution of metastasis revealed by mutationallandscapes of chemically induced skin cancers. Nature medicine. 2015;21(12):1514-20.
View on Pubmed - Smith CC, Lasater EA, Lin KC, Wang Q, McCreery MQ, Stewart WK, Damon LE, Perl AE,Jeschke GR, Sugita M, Carroll M, Kogan SC, Kuriyan J, Shah NP. Crenolanib is aselective type I pan-FLT3 inhibitor. Proceedings of the National Academy ofSciences of the United States of America. 2014; 111(14):5319-24.
View on PubMed - Rudolph M, McCreery MQ, Frey W, Hashmi AS. High chemoselectivity in the phenolsynthesis. Beilstein journal of organic chemistry. 2011; 7:794-801.
View on PubMed - Reeves MQ, Kandyba E, Harris S, Del Rosario R, Balmain A. Multicolour lineagetracing reveals clonal dynamics of squamous carcinoma evolution from initiationto metastasis. Nature cell biology. 2018; 20(6):699-709.
View on PubMed - Huang PY, Kandyba E, Jabouille A, Sjolund J, Kumar A, Halliwill K, McCreery M,DelRosario R, Kang HC, Wong CE, Seibler J, Beuger V, Pellegrino M, Sciambi A,Eastburn DJ, Balmain A. Lgr6 is a stem cell marker in mouse skin squamous cellcarcinoma. Nature genetics. 2017; 49(11):1624-1632.
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