Michael Roth, PhD

Interim Dean, Southwestern Graduate School
Professor
Endowed Title: Diane and Hal Brierley Distinguished Chair in Biomedical Research
Biochemistry
Graduate Program: Cancer Biology
Cell Regulation

Contact Information

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

Office Phone: 214-648-3338
Office Fax: 214-648-8856

michael.roth@utsouthwestern.edu

Biography

Michael Roth received an AB degree in 1971 from Davidson College and taught high school science in Alexandria Virginia before obtaining a PhD in Cell and Molecular Biology from the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 1982. He was a Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation postdoctoral fellow from 1982-1983 and a NIH postdoctoral fellow from 1983-1985 with Drs. Joe Sambrook and Mary-Jane Gething at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. He joined the faculty at UT Southwestern in 1985, was promoted to professor in 1996 and that year received the Diane and Hal Brierley Chair in Biomedical Research.

 

Dr. Roth’s current research interests focus on drug discovery. Active research programs in the Roth laboratory target virus pathogens, cancer and diabetes with an emphasis in using genetics and cell biology to determine the mechanisms by which novel chemical compounds affect living organisms. Dr. Roth is a founding member of the University of Texas Academy of Health Science Education and a member of Southwestern Academy of Teachers.

Education

Graduate SchoolUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham (1982)

Research Interests

Drug discovery
High-throughput screening of chemical compound libraries.
High-throughput screening of RNAi libraries.
Intracellular traffic in membrane proteins and lipids.

Publications

Featured
Image-based genome-wide siRNA screen identifies selective autophagy factors.

Orvedahl A, Jr RS, Xiao G, Ng A, Zou Z, Tang Y, Narimatsu M, Gilpin C, Sun Q, Roth M, Forst CV, Wrana JL, Zhang YE, Luby-Phelps K, Xavier RJ, Xie Y, Levine B, Nature, 2011 Oct;

Featured
Chemical inhibition of RNA viruses reveals REDD1 as a host defense factor.

Mata MA, Satterly N, Versteeg GA, Frantz D, Wei S, Williams N, Schmolke M, Peña-Llopis S, Brugarolas J, Forst CV, White MA, García-Sastre A, Roth MG, Fontoura BM, Nature chemical biology, 2011 ; 7 (10)

Featured
Small molecule-mediated disruption of Wnt-dependent signaling in tissue regeneration and cancer.

Chen B, Dodge ME, Tang W, Lu J, Ma Z, Fan CW, Wei S, Hao W, Kilgore J, Williams NS, Roth MG, Amatruda JF, Chen C, Lum L, Nature chemical biology, 2009 Feb; 5 (2):100-7

Featured
Targetting QseC Signaling and Virulence for Antibiotic Development

Rasko, D. A. C. G. Moreira, D. Li, J. M. Ritchie, M. K. Waldor, N. Williams, R. Taussig, C. Mischnoff, S. Wei, M. G. Roth, D. T. Hughes, J. Huntley, J. R. Falck, and V. Sperandio , Science , 2008; (321):1078-1080

Featured
Synthetic lethal screen identification of chemosensitizer loci in cancer cells.

Whitehurst AW, Bodemann BO, Cardenas J, Ferguson D, Girard L, Peyton M, Minna JD, Michnoff C, Hao W, Roth MG, Xie XJ, White MA, Nature, 2007 Apr; 446 (7137):815-9

Towards patient-based cancer therapeutics.

Schreiber SL, Shamji AF, Clemons PA, Hon C, Koehler AN, Munoz B, Palmer M, Stern AM, Wagner BK, Powers S, Lowe SW, Guo X, Krasnitz A, Sawey ET, Sordella R, Stein L, Trotman LC, Califano A, Dalla-Favera R, Ferrando A, Iavarone A, Pasqualucci L, Silva J, Stockwell BR, Hahn WC, Chin L, DePinho RA, Boehm JS, Gopal S, Huang A, Root DE, Weir BA, Gerhard DS, Zenklusen JC, Roth MG, White MA, Minna JD, MacMillan JB, Posner BA, Nature biotechnology, 2010 Sep; 28 (9):904-6

Mitochondrial dysfunction confers resistance to multiple drugs in Caenorhabditis elegans.

Zubovych IO, Straud S, Roth MG, Molecular biology of the cell, 2010 Mar; 21 (6):956-69

Genome-wide siRNA-based functional genomics of pigmentation identifies novel genes and pathways that impact melanogenesis in human cells.

Ganesan AK, Ho H, Bodemann B, Petersen S, Aruri J, Koshy S, Richardson Z, Le LQ, Krasieva T, Roth MG, Farmer P, White MA, PLoS genetics, 2008 Dec; 4 (12):e1000298

Honors/Awards

UT Southwestern Academy of Teachers

(2011)

Member, UT Academy of Health Science Education

(2005)

Diane and Hal Brierley Distinguished Chair in Biomedical Research

(1996)

Established Investigator of the American Heart Association

(1989)

Professional Associations/Affiliations

American Association for the Advancement of Science

American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

American Society for Cell Biology

American Society for Microbiology