John Whittard, B.Sc. (Hons) Ph.D.
Post-doctoral fellow, Department of Pharmacology and Systems Therapeutics
E-mail: john.whittard@mssm.edu
Tel: (212) 241-9976

Mailing Address

One Gustave L. Levy Place, Box 1603, New York NY 10029

Location

Annenberg Building, 1468 Madison Avenue, Room 19-76

Training and Education

Post-doctoral fellow Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA

Ph.D. Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell-Matrix Research, University of Manchester, Manchester, U.K.

B.Sc. University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, Manchester, U.K.

Research Interests

My primary research interest lies in understanding the role of cell adhesion in development and drug addiction.

Publications

Sakurai T, Gil OD, Whittard JD, Gazdoiu M, Joseph T, Wu J, Waksman A, Benson DL, Salton SR, Felsenfeld DP. Interactions between the L1 cell adhesion molecule and ezrin support traction-force generation and can be regulated by tyrosine phosphorylation. 2008 J. Neuroscience Res. 86(12): 2602-14.

Whittard JD, Sakurai T, Cassella MR, Gazdoiu, Felsenfeld DP. MAP kinase pathway-dependent phosphorylation of the L1-CAM ankyrin binding site regulates neuronal growth. 2006 Mol. Biol. Cell 17(6): 2696-706. Whittard JD, Craig SE, Mould AP, Koch A, Pertz O, Engel J. Humphries MJ. E-cadherin is a ligand for integrin alpha2beta1. 2002 Matrix Biol. 21(6): 525-32.

Whittard JD and Akiyama SK. Positive regulation of cell-cell and cell-substrate adhesion by protein kinase A. 2001 J. Cell Science 114(18): 3265-72.

Mostafavi-Pour Z, Askari JA, Whittard JD, Humphries MJ. Identification of a novel heparin-binding site in the alternatively spliced IIICS region of fibronectin: roles of integrins and proteoglycans in cell adhesion to fibronectin splice variants.2001 Matrix Biol. 20(1): 63-73.