Alan James Davidson

EDUCATION

B.Sc (Hons) 1994 University of Auckland, New Zealand

Ph.D 1999 University of Auckland, New Zealand

Postdoc 2004 Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2005-present Assistant Cell Biologist, Center for Regenerative Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital.

2005-present Assistant Professor (pending), Harvard Medical School.

PUBLICATIONS

Davidson A. J., Freeman S.-A., Crosier K. E., Wood C. R. and Crosier P. S. Expression of murine interleukin 11 and its receptor alpha-chain in adult and embryonic tissues. Stem Cells, 1997, 15: 119-124.

Davidson A. J., Postlethwait J. H., Yan Y.-L., Beier D. R., van Doren C., Foernzler D., Celeste A. J., Crosier K. E. and Crosier P. S. Isolation of zebrafish gdf7 and comparative genetic mapping of genes belonging to the growth/differentiation factor 5, 6, 7 subgroup of the TG Fbeta superfamily. Genome Res, 1999, 9: 121-129.

Paw B. H., Davidson A. J., Zhou Y., Li R., Pratt S. J., Trede N. S., Brownlie A., Donovan A., Lio E.C., Ziai J. M., Drejer A., Guo W., Kim C., Gwynn B., Peters L., Chernova M., Alper S., Zapata A., Wickramasinghe S. N., LeeM. J., Lux S. E ., Fritz A. Postlethwait J.H. and Zon L. I. Cell-specific Mitotic Defect and Dyserythropoiesis Associated with Erythroid Band 3 Deficiency. Nat. Genet, 2002, 34: 59-64.

Davidson A. J., Ernst P., Wang Y., Dekens M. P. S, Kinglsey P. D., Palis J., Korsmeyer S. J. and Zon L. I. cdx4 mutants fail to specify blood progenitors and can be rescued by multiple hox genes. Nature, 2003, 425:300-306.

Dooley K., Davidson A. J., and Zon L. I. Zebrafish scl functions independently in hematopoietic and endothelial development. Dev Biol. 2005, 277:522-536.