Po Chen, PhD

Assistant Professor
Cell Biology

Contact Information

UT Southwestern Medical Center
5323 Harry Hines Boulevard
Dallas, Texas 75390

Office Phone: 214-648-2570
Office Fax: 214-648-8694

po.chen@utsouthwestern.edu

Education

Graduate SchoolUniversity of Texas at Dallas, Cell Biology (1994)
Graduate SchoolUniversity of Texas at Dallas, Biology (1992)
UndergraduateUniversity of Science Technology - China, Biology (1989)

Research Interests

Apoptosis

Publications

Featured
Dark is a Drosophila Homolog of Apaf1/Ced-4 and Functions in an Evolutionarily Conserved Death Pathway.

Rodriguez, A., Oliver, H., Zou, H., Chen, P., Wang, X., Abrams, J.M. , Nature Cell Biol. , 1999; (1):272-279

Featured
Dredd, a novel effector of the apoptosis activators Reaper, Grim and Hid in Drosophila.

Chen, P., Rodriguez, A., Erskine, R., Thach, T., Abrams, J.M. , Dev. Biol. , 1998; (201):202-216

Featured
Grim, a novel cell death gene in Drosophila.

Chen, P., Nordstrom, W., Stuart, B., and Abrams, J.M. , Genes & Development , 1996; (10):1773-1782

The Damage-Responsive Drosophila Gene sickle Encodes a Novel IAP Binding Protein Similar to but Distinct from reaper, grim, and hid.

Christich, A., Kauppila, S., Chen, P., Sogame, N., Ho, S., Abrams, J.M. , Curr. Biol. , 2002; (12):137-140

Unrestrained caspase dependent cell death caused by loss of Diap 1 function requires the drosophila Apaf-1 homolog, dark.

Rodriguez, A.P., Chen, H. Oliver and J.M. Abrams , EMBO J. , 2002; (21):1-9

Honors/Awards

Leukemia & Lymphoma Society

Career Development Award (2000)

NIH

National Research Service Award (1996)