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Krieser, RonaldDr. Ronald Krieser
Office Information:
CS-304R
Phone: 978-665-3619
Email: rkrieser@fsc.edu

 

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Education:

  • Postdoctoral work, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School
  • Ph.D., Pharmacology and Toxicology, Dartmouth College;
  • B.A., Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Clark University
 

Research Interests:

I am interested in understanding the genetic control of apoptosis, a form of cell death during development and disease. I use the model organism Drosophila to study apoptis and the disposal of the cell corpse in whole organism and tissue culture systems.


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Representative Publications:

Krieser, Ronald and Kristin White. Inside an enigma: do mitochondria contribute to cell death in Drosophila? Apoptosis Journal, submitted for publication.


Abdelwahid, Eltyeb, Takakazu Yokokura, Ronald J. Krieser, Sujatha Balasunduram, William H. Fowle, and Kristin White. Mitochondrial disruption in Drosophila apoptosis. Developmental Cell, 12:793-806, 2007.


Krieser, R.J., F.E. Morre, D. Dresnek, B.J. Pellock, R. Patel, A Huang, C. Brachmann, and K White. The Drosophila homolog of the putative phosphatidylserine receptor functions to inhibit apoptosis during development. Development, 134: 2407-2414. 2007.


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