CURRENT LAB HIGHLIGHTS:
http://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/center-times/year-2012/may/galindo-research-rhabado.html
http://www.alexslemonade.org/grantee/rene-galindo
RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
Avirneni-Vadlamudi U, Galindo KA, Endicott TR, Paulson V, Cameron S, and Galindo RL. Drosophila and mammalian models uncover a role for the myoblast fusion gene TANC1 in rhabdomyosarcoma. J Clin Invest. 2012; 122: 403-407.
Paulson V, Chandler G, Rakheja D, Galindo RL, Wilson K, Amatruda JF, Cameron S. High-resolution array CGH identifies common mechanisms that drive embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma pathogenesis. Genes Chromosomes Cancer. 2011; 50: 397-408.
Galindo RL, Allport JA, and Olson EN. A Drosophila model of the rhabdomyosarcoma initiator PAX7-FKHR. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2006; 103: 13439-13444.
SELECT AWARDS:
2010 Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation “A” Award
2007 Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award for Medical
Scientists
2007 Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center Young
Investigator Award (UTSWMC)
2007 Children’s Cancer Fund Center for Pediatric Oncology
Young Investigator Research Award (Dallas, TX)
2007 Society for Pediatric Pathology Lotte Strauss Prize
(meritorious work by a young researcher in pediatric
pathology)
2007 The President’s Research Council 2005 Distinguished
Young Researcher Award (TSWMC)
2005 Society for Pediatric Pathology Harry B. Neustein
Memorial Award (application of novel technology to
the study of pediatric disease)
PRIOR PUBLICATIONS:
Rakheja D, Cimo ML, Ramus RM, Rogers BB, Bennett MJ, Boyer PJ, and Galindo RL. Hydrolethalus syndrome, in contrast to Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome, is not due to a defect in post-squalene cholesterol biosynthesis: a case report. Am J Med Genet. 2004; 129A: 212-213.
Steinberg JP, Galindo RL, Kraus ES, and Ghanem KG. Disseminated acanthamebiasis in a renal transplant recipient with osteomyelitis and cutaneous lesions: case report and literature review. Clin Infect Dis. 2002; 35: E43-49.
Towb P, Galindo RL, and Wasserman SA. Recruitment of Tube and Pelle to signaling sites at the surface of the Drosophila embryo. Development. 1998; 125: 2443-2450.
Liu ZP, Galindo RL, and Wasserman SA. A role for CKII phosphorylation in dorsoventral patterning of the Drosophila embryo. Genes Dev. 1997; 11: 3413-3422.
Reach M*, Galindo RL*, Towb P, Allen JL, Karin M, and Wasserman SA. A gradient of Cactus protein degradation establishes dorsoventral polarity in the Drosophila embryo. Dev. Biol. 1996; 180: 353-364.
*Co-first authors
Galindo RL, Edwards DN, Gillespie SKH, and Wasserman SA. Interaction of the pelle kinase with the membrane-associated protein tube is required for transduction of the dorsoventral signal in Drosophila embryos. Development. 1995; 121: 2209-2218.
