Beatriz Fontoura, PhD

Associate Professor
Cell Biology
Graduate Program: Cancer Biology
Molecular Microbiology

Contact Information

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

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

beatriz.fontoura@utsouthwestern.edu

Biography

EXPERIENCE

UT Southwestern, Department of Cell Biology, Associate Professor (2007-present).

UT Southwestern, Department of Cell Biology, Assistant Professor (2005-2007).

University of Miami School of Medicine, Department of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, Assistant Professor (2001-2005).

Member of the Sylvester Cancer Center at University of Miami School of Medicine. (2005-present)

Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology. Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Laboratory of Cell Biology, The Rockefeller University, New York, N.Y., Post-Doctoral Associate (1996-2001).

New York University Medical Center, New York, N.Y., Department of Pathology, Graduate Student (PhD) (1991 - 1996).

Cornell University Medical College, New York, N.Y., Department of Physiology, Visiting Fellow (1988-1990).

Paulista School of Medicine, Sao Paulo, S.P., Brazil, Department of Biochemistry, Graduate Student (MS), (1985-1988).

University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, Biochemistry Laboratory, University Hospital, Staff Member (1984-1985).

 

Education

Graduate SchoolNyu Medical Center Allied Health Education (1996)

Publications

Featured
The Nucleoporin Nup96 is Required for Proper Expression of Interferon-Regulated Proteins and Functions

Faria A.M., Levay A., Wang Y., Kamphorst A.O., Rosa M.L., Nussenzveig D.R., Balkan W., Chook Y.M., Levy D.E., and B.M.A. Fontoura , Immunity , March 2006; (24 (3)):295-304

Featured
Influenza Virus Targets the mRNA Export Machinery and the Nuclear Pore Complex

Satterly, N. Tsai, P-L., van Deursen, J., Nussenzveig, D.R., Wang, Y., Faria, P.A., Levay, A., Levy, D.E., and B. M. A. Fontoura , PNAS , February 2007; (104 (6)):1853-1858

Featured
Nucleoporin Levels Regulate Cell Cycle Progression and Phase-Specific Gene Expression

Chakraborty P., Wang Y., Wei J.-H, van Deursen J., Yu H., Malureanu L., Dasso M., Forbes D.J., Levy D.E., Seemann J., and B. M. A. Fontoura , , 2008; (Dev. Cell 15):657-667

Featured
VSV disrupts the Rae1/mrnp41 mRNA nuclear export pathway.

Faria, P.A., Chakraborty, P., Levay, A., Barber, G.N., Ezelle, H., Enninga, J., Arana, C., van Deursen, J., and B. M. A. Fontoura , Mol. Cell , 2005; (17):93-102

Featured
Role of nucleoporin induction in releasing an mRNA nuclear export block.

Enninga, J., Levy, D.E., Blobel, G., and B.M.A. Fontoura , Science , 2002; (295):1523-1525

Honors/Awards

UM Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center Award

(2004)

Stanley J. Glaser Award

(2002)

UM Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center Award

(2002)