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Mary Helen Barcellos-Hoff
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
E-mail: mbarcellos-hoff@ibl.gov
Website: http://www.lbl.gov/lifesciences


Newly Funded Projects:

An expression Array Strategy to Identify Mouse Strain-Specific DNA Damage Response Pathways in Mammary Tissue, abstract, description.

Multidimensional Analysis of Human Epithelial Cell Response to Low Dose Radiation, abstract, description.

Currently Funded Projects:

Mechanisms of Tissue Response to Low Dose Radiation, description.

Technical Abstracts:

The Progeny of Irradiated Mammary Epithelial Cells Exhibit a Phenotype Characteristic of Malignancy
Barcellos-Hoff,
M.H., Henshall-Powell, R.L., Bissell, M.J. and Parvin, B.


Interaction between Tissue and Cellular Stress Responses: Effect of TGF-ß Depletion on Radiation-Induced p53 Response,
Barcellos-
Hoff, M.H., Ravani, S.A., Henshall, R.L., Ewan, K.B., Warters, R.L., Parvin, B.

Publications:

Barcellos-Hoff, M.H. (2008) Cancer is an emergent phenomenon in systems radiation biology. Radiation Environ. Biophys. 47(1):33-38.

Raman, S., Maxwell, C.A., Barcellos-Hoff, M.H., and Parvin, B. (2007) Geometric approach to segmentation and protein localization in cell culture assays. Journal of Microscopy-Oxford 225(1):22-30.

Costes, S.V., Ponomarev, A., Chen, J.L., Nguyen, D., Cucinotta, F.A., and Barcellos-Hoff, M.H. (2007) Image-based modeling reveals dynamic redistribution of DNA damage into nuclear sub-domains. PLOS Computational Biology 3(8):1477-1488.

Andarawewa, K.L., Paupert, J., Pal, A., and Barcellos-Hoff, M.N. (2007) New rationales for using TGF-beta inhibitors in radiotherapy. International J. of Radiation Biology 83(11-12):803-811.

Kumari, I., Andarawewa, K.L., Erickson, A.C., Chou, W.S., Costes, S.V., Gascard, P., Mott, J.D., Bissell, M.J., and Barcellos-Hoff, M.H. (2007) Ionizing radiation predisposes nonmalignant human mammary epithelial cells to undergo transforming growth factor ß-induced epithelial to mesenchymal transition. Cancer Research 67(18):8662-8670.

Parvin, B., Yang, Q., Han, J., Chang, H., Rydberg, B., and Barcellos-Hoff, M.H. (2007) Iterative voting for inference of structural saliency and characterization of subcellular events. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing 16(3):615-623.

Barcellos-Hoff, M.H. and Ortiz-de-Solorzano (2007) Quantitative in vivo microscopy: The return from the 'omics.' Current Opinion in Biotechnology 17:501-510.

Kirshner, J., Jobling, M.F., Pajares, M.J., Ravani, S.A., Glick, A.B., Lavin, M.J., Koslov, S., Shiloh, Y., and Barcellos-Hoff, M.H. (2006) Inhibition of transforming growth factor-ß1 signaling attenuates ataxia talangiectasia mutated activity in response to genotoxic stress. Cancer Research 66(22):10861-10869.

Barcellos-Hoff, M.H. and Costes, S.V. (2006) A systems biology approach to multicellular and multi-generational radiation responses. Mutation Research 597(1-2):32-38.

Costes, S.V., Boissière, A., Ravani, S., Romano, R., Parvin, B., and Barcellos-Hoff, M.H. (2006) Imaging features that discriminate between foci induced by high- and low-LET radiation in human fibroblasts. Radiation Research 165(5):505-515.

Jobling, M.F., Mott, J.D., Finnegan, M.T., Vladimir, J., Erickson, A.C., Walian, P.J., Taylor, S.E., Ledbetter, S., Lawrence, C.M., Rifkin, D.B., and Barcellos-Hoff, M.H. (2006) Isoform-specific activation of latent transforming growth factor β (LTGF-β) by reactive oxygen species. Radiation Research 166:839-848.

Barcellos-Hoff, M.H. (2005) Integrative radiation carcinogenesis: Interactions between cell and tissue responses to DNA damage. Seminars in Cancer Biology 15:138-148.

Barcellos-Hoff, M.H. (2005) How tissues respond to damage at the cellular level: Orchestration by transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β). Br. J. Radiol. Supplement 27:123-127.

Barcellos-Hoff, M.H., Park, C., and Wright, E.G. (2005) Radiation and the microenvironment – tumorigenesis and therapy. Nature Reviews Cancer 5(11):867-75.

Stone, H.B., Moulder, J.E., Coleman, C.N., Ang, K.K., Anscher, M.S., Barcellos-Hoff, M.H., Dynan, W.S., Fike, J.R., Grdina, D.J., Greenberger, J.S., Hauer-Jenson, M., Hill, R.P., Kolesnick, R.N., Mac Vitties, T.J., Marks, C., McBride, W.H., Metting, N., Pellmar, T., Purucker, M., Robbins, M.E., Schiestl, R.H., Seed, T.M., Tomaszewski, J.E., Travis, E.L., Wallner, P.E., Wolpert, M., and Zaharevitz, D. (2004) Models for evaluating agents intended for the prophylaxis, mitigation and treatment of radiation injuries: Report of an NCI workshop, December 3-4, 2003. Radiation Research 162:711-728.

Muraoka-Cook, R.S., Kurokawa, H., Koh, Y., Forbes, J.T., Roebuck, L.R., Barcellos-Hoff, M.H., Moody, S.E., Chodosh, L.A., and Arteaga, C.L. (2004) Conditional overexpression of active transforming growth factor β1 in vivo accelerates metastes of transgenic mammary tumors. Cancer Research 64:9002-9011.

Coleman, C.N., Stone, H.B., Alexander, G.A., Barcellos-Hoff, M.H., Bedford, J.S., Bristow, R.G., Dynlacht, J.R., Fuks, Z., Gorelic, L.S., Hill, R.P., Joiner, M.C., Liu, F.-F., McBride, W.H., Mckenna, W.G., Powell, S.N., Robbins, M.E.C., Rockwell, S., Schiff, P.B., Shaw, E.G., Siemann, D.W., Travis, E.L., Wallner, P.E., Wong, R.S.L., and Zeman, E.M. (2003) Education and training for radiation scientists: Radiation Research Program and American Society of Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology Workshop, Bethesda, Maryland, May 12-14, 2003. Radiation Research 160:729-737.

Barcellos-Hoff, M.H. (2003) How radiation-induced phenotypes contribute to neoplastic progression. Health Physics 85(1):84.

Parvin, B., Yang, Q., Fontenay, G., and Barcellos-Hoff, M.H. (2002) Biosig: An imaging bioinformatic system for studying protenomics. Piscataway, NJ : IEEE Press, pp. 1-17.

Costes, S. and Barcellos-Hoff, M.H. (2002) Radiation quality and tissue-specific micoenvironments following exposure to 1 GeV/AMU Fe. Advances in Space Research 30(4):865-870.

Park, C.C., Henshall-Powell, R., Erickson, A.C., Talhouk, R., Parvin, B., Bissell, M.J., and Barcellos-Hoff, M.H. (2003) Ionizing radiation induces heritable disruption of epithelial cell-microenvironment interactions. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 100:10728-10733.

Ewan, K.B., Henshall-Powell, R.L., Ravani, S.A., Pajares, M.J., Arteaga, C., Warters, R., Akhurst, R.J., and Barcellos-Hoff, M.H. (2002) Transforming growth factor-{beta}1 mediates cellular response to DNA damage in situ. Cancer Res. 62:5627-5631.

Barcellos-Hoff, M.H., (2002) The contribution of radiation-induced microenvironments to neoplastic progression. Radiation Research 158(6):792-793.

Asch, B.B. and Barcellos-Hoff, M.H. (2001) Epigenetics and breast cancer. J. Mammary Gland. Biol. Neoplasia 6(2):151-152.

Barcellos-Hoff, M.H. and Brooks, A.L. (2001). Extracellular signalling through the microenvironment: A hypothesis relating carcinogenesis, bystander effects and genomic instability. Radiation Research 156:618-627.

Barcellos-Hoff, M.H. (2001) It takes a tissue to make a tumor: Epigenetics, cancer and microenvironment. J. Mammary Gland. Biol. Neoplasia 6(2):213-221.

Barcellos-Hoff, M.H. (2001) Three down and counting: The transformation of human mammary cells from normal to malignant in three steps. Trends Mol. Med. 7(4):142-143.

Barcellos-Hoff, M.H. and Ravani, S.A. (2000) Irradiated mammary gland stroma promotes the expression of tumorigenic potential by unirradiated epithelial cells. Cancer Res. 60:1254-1260.

Park, C.C., Bissell, M.J., and Barcellos-Hoff, M.H. (2000) The influence of microenvironment on malignant phenotype. Molecular Medicine Today 6:324-329.

Chang, P.Y., Bjornstad, K.A., Chang, E., McNamara, M., Barcellos-Hoff, M.H., Lin, S.P., Aragon, G., Polansky, J.R., Lui, G.M. and Blakely, E.A. (2000) Particle irradiation induces FGF2 expression in normal human lens cells. Radiation Research 154:477-484.

Ehrhart, E.J., Carroll, A., Segarini, P., Tsang, M.L..S., and Barcellos-Hoff, M.H. (1997) Latent transforming growth factor-ß activation in situ: Quantitative and functional evidence following low dose irradiation. FASEB J 11:991-1002.

 



                   
                   
                   
 

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