Professor of Medical Sciences
Elaine_Bearer@brown.edu
T: 401 863-3124
F: 401 863-9008
Brown University
Laboratories of Molecular Medicine
70 Ship Street, Box G-E5
Providence, RI 02912
Medical Education/Graduate Education:
M.D., Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco, 1983
Residency:
University of California, San Francisco (Anatomic Pathology)
Fellowship:
University of California, San Francisco (Pathology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)
Board Certification:
Anatomic Pathology 1987
Research Interests:
Cytoskeletal dynamics in pathologic processes; coagulation, neurodegenerative diseases and microbial pathogenesis
Current Approved Research Grants:
NIH R01 Molecular mechanisms of active dynamics in platelets; NIH-RO1 Molecular mechanisms of axonal transport; NSF Int. myosin; NCRR-COBRE-stem cells
Rosenstiel Biomedical Center: Distinguished Marine Neuroscientist Lectureship (2003); Moore Foundation, Moore Distinguished Scholar (2004-5); Dart Neuroscience LLP: Dart Scholar of Learning and Memory (2005)
Most Recent Significant Publications:
Satpute-Krishnan, P, DiGiorgis, JA, Bearer, EL (2003) Fast anterograde transport of HSV: a role for the amyloid precursor protein of Alzheimer's disease. Aging Cell 2 (6);287-294.
Tyszka, JM, Readhead, C, Bearer, EL, Pautler, RG, Jacobs, RE (2005) Statistical diffusion tensor histology reveals regional dysmyelination effects in theb shiverer mouse mutant. Neuroimage. Oct. 3 (Epub ahead of print)
DiGeorgis, J.A., Reese, T.S. and Bearer, E.L. (2002) Association of myosin II with axoplasmic organelles: Implications of axonal transport. Molec. Biol. Cell 13: 1046-1057.
Bearer, E.L. and Satpute-Krishnan, P. (2002) The role of the cytoskeleton in the life cycle of viruses and intracellular bacteria: Tracks, motors, and polymerization machines. Current Drug Targets-Infectious Disorders 2: 247-264.
