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Brian Haarer

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
SUNY Upstate Medical University
750 E. Adams St.
Syracuse, NY. 13210
Phone: (315) 464-8728
FAX: (315) 464-8750
E-Mail: haarerb@upstate dot edu

• Ph.D. in Cellular and Molecular Biology, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
• B.S. (Summa cum laude) Central Michigan University

• Assistant Professor, Department of Zoology, Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, The University of Texas at Austin
• Postdoctoral, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

• Ad hoc grant reviewer, National Science Foundation
• Ad hoc reviewer, The Journal of Cell Biology, Genetics, Journal of Molecular Biology, The Journal of Biological Chemistry, Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton
• 1989-1991: NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship
• 1988-1989: NIH Postdoctoral Trainee in Developmental Biology
• 1986-1987: Rackham (Graduate School) Predoctoral Fellowship
• 1985-1986: NIH Predoctoral Trianee in Developmental Biology
• 1982-1985: Arthur F. Thurnau Predoctoral Fellowship
• 1982-1985: NIH Predoctoral Trainee in Cellular and Molecular Biology

• B.K. Haarer and N.S. Atkinson; US Patent #6,153.389 - "DNA additives as a mechanism for unambiguously marking biological samples"

• Haarer BK, Helfant AH, Nelson SA, Cooper JA and Amberg DC.  2007.  Stable pre-anaphase spindle positioning requires Bud6p and an apparent interaction between the spindle pole bodies and the neck.  Euk. Cell  In Press
• Haarer B, Viggiano S, Hibbs MA, Troyanskaya OG  and Amberg DC.  2007.  Modeling complex genetic interactions in a simple eukaryotic genome: actin displays a rich spectrum of complex haploinsufficiencies.   Genes Dev.  21:148-59
• Clark MG, Teply J, Haarer BK, Viggiano SC, Sept D and Amberg DC.  2006.  A genetic dissection of Aip1p’s interactions leads to a model for Aip1p-cofilin cooperative activities.  Mol. Biol. Cell.  17:1971-1984
• Iwase M, Luo J, Nagaraj S, Longtine M, Kim HB, Haarer BK, Caruso C, Pringle JR and Bi E.  2006.  Role of a Cdc42 effector pathway in recruitment of the yeast septins to the presumptive bud site. Mol. Biol. Cell. 17:1110-1125
• Haarer BK and Amberg DC.  2004.  Old yellow enzyme protects the actin cytoskeleton from oxidative stress.  Mol. Biol. Cell.  15:4522-4531
• Freedman T, Porter A and Haarer B.  2000.  Mutational and hyperexpression-induced disruption of bipolar budding in yeast.  Microbiology.  146:2833-2843
• Yu J, Wang C, Palmieri SJ, Haarer BK and Field J.  1999.  A cytoskeletal localizing domain in the cyclase-associated protein, CAP/Srv2p regulates access to a distant SH3-binding site.  J. Biol. Chem.  274:19985-19991
• Palmieri S and Haarer BK.  1998.  Polarity and division site specification in yeast.  Curr. Opin. Micro.  1(6): 678-686
• Eads JC, Mahoney NM, Vorobiev S, Bresnick AR, Wen KK, Rubenstein PA, Haarer BK and Almo SC.  1998.  Structure determination and characterization of Saccharomyces cerevisiae profilin.  Biochemistry  37:11171-11181
• Yeh J and Haarer BK.  1996.  Profilin is required for the normal timing of actin polymerization in response to thermal stress.  FEBS Lett.  398:303-307
• Haarer BK, Corbett A, Kweon Y, Petzold AS, Silver P and Brown SS.  1996.  SEC3 mutations are synthetically lethal with profilin mutations, and cause defects in diploid-specific bud-site selection.  Genetics  144:495-510
• Haarer BK, Petzold A, Lillie SH and Brown SS.  1994.  Identification of MYO4, a second class V myosin gene in yeast.  J. Cell Science. 107:1055-1064
• Haarer BK, Petzold AS and Brown SS.  1993.  Mutational analysis of yeast profilin.  Mol. Cell. Biol.  13:7864-7873
• Vojtek A, Haarer B, Field J, Gerst J, Pollard TD, Brown S and Wigler M.  1991.  Evidence for a functional link between profilin and CAP in S. cerevisiae.  Cell  66:497-505.
• Pringle JR, Adams AEM, Drubin DG and Haarer BK.  1991.  Immunofluorescence methods for yeast.  Methods Enzymol.  194:565-602.
• Kim HB, Haarer BK and Pringle JR.  1991.  Cellular morphogenesis in the Saccharomyces cerevisiae cell cycle: localization of the CDC3 gene product and the timing of events at the budding site.  J. Cell Biol.  112:535-544.
• Haarer BK, Lillie SH, Adams AEM, Magdolen V, Bandlow W and Brown SS.  1990.  Purification of profilin from Saccharomyces cerevisiae and analysis of profilin-deficient cells.  J. Cell Biol.  110:105-114.
• Haarer BK and Brown SS.  1990.  Structure and function of profilin.  Cell Motility Cytoskel.  17:71-74.
  Pringle, J.R., R.A. Preston, A.E.M. Adams, T. Stearns, D.G. Drubin, B.K. Haarer, and E.W. Jones.  1989.  Fluorescence microscopy methods for yeast.  Methods Cell Biol.  31:357-435.
• Haarer B and Pringle JR.  1987.  Immunofluorescence localization of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae CDC12 gene product to the vicinity of the 10-nm filaments in the mother-bud neck.  Mol. Cell. Biol.  7:3678-3687.
• Pringle JR, Lillie SH, Adams AEM, Jacobs CW, Haarer BK, Coleman KG, Robinson JS, Bloom L and Preston RA.  1986.  Cellular morphogenesis in the yeast cell cycle.  In Yeast Cell Biology (J. Hicks, ed.), pp. 47-80.  Alan R. Liss, Inc.
• Pringle JR, Coleman K, Adams A, Lillie S, Haarer B, Jacobs C, Robinson J and Evans C.  1984.  Cellular morphogenesis in the yeast cell cycle.  In Molecular Biology of the Cytoskeleton (G. Borisy, D. Cleveland, and D. Murphy, eds.), pp. 193-209.  Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York.
• Miller, J.R. and B.K. Haarer.  1981.  Yeast and corn hydrolysates and other nutritious materials as attractants for onion and seed flies.  J. Chem. Ecol.  7:555-562.

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Susan Viggiano

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
SUNY Upstate Medical University
750 E. Adams St.
Syracuse, NY. 13210
Phone: (315) 464-8728
FAX: (315) 464-8750
E-Mail: viggians@upstate dot edu

• Haarer BK,Viggiano SC, Hibbs MA, Troyanskaya OG and Amberg DC. (2007) Modeling complex genetic interactions in a simple eukaryotic genome: Actin displays a rich spectrum of complex haploinsufficiencies. Genes and Devel., 21, 149-159. This article was featured on the cover and in a perspective published in the same issue
• Clark, MG, Teply J, Haarer BK, Viggiano SC, Sept D and Amberg DC.  (2006) A genetic dissection of Aip1p’s interactions leads to a model for Aip1p-cofilin cooperative activities.  Mol. Biol. Cell.  17:1971-1984

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