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8944
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Overview

Michael D. Schaller is affiliated with West Virginia University in the United States and has contributed to research across medicine, biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work spans diverse subfields including molecular biology, public health, environmental and occupational health, immunology and allergy, oncology, and cell biology.

The scientist has published extensively on topics such as cell adhesion molecules research, health and medical research impacts, doctoral education challenges and solutions, diversity and career in medicine, HER2/EGFR in cancer research, innovations in medical education, and scientometrics and bibliometrics research.

Recent publications by Michael D. Schaller include the following:

  • Training doctoral students in critical thinking and experimental design using problem-based learning, 2023, BMC Medical Education
  • Research productivity and training support for doctoral students in the biological and biomedical sciences, 2023, FASEB BioAdvances
  • Functional Hierarchy and Cooperation of EMT Master Transcription Factors in Breast Cancer Metastasis, 2021, Molecular Cancer Research
  • MAP kinases and cell migration, 2021, UNC Libraries

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Michael D. Schaller include:

  • Kirk C. Prutzman
  • Sharon L. Campbell
  • Marion A. Cooley
  • Cai Huang
  • Ken Jacobson

The primary venues where this scientist publishes are:

  • UNC Libraries
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • FASEB BioAdvances
  • BMC Medical Education
  • Molecular Cancer Research

Best Publications

  • Integrins: Emerging Paradigms of Signal Transduction

    Martin A. Schwartz;Michael D. Schaller;Mark H. Ginsberg

  • pp125FAK a structurally distinctive protein-tyrosine kinase associated with focal adhesions.

    M D Schaller;C A Borgman;B S Cobb;R R Vines

  • Autophosphorylation of the focal adhesion kinase, pp125FAK, directs SH2-dependent binding of pp60src.

    M D Schaller;J D Hildebrand;J D Shannon;J W Fox

  • MAP kinases and cell migration

    Cai Huang;Ken Jacobson;Michael D. Schaller

  • Cell adhesion or integrin clustering increases phosphorylation of a focal adhesion-associated tyrosine kinase.

    L Kornberg;H S Earp;J T Parsons;M Schaller

  • Focal adhesion kinase and paxillin bind to peptides mimicking beta integrin cytoplasmic domains.

    M D Schaller;C A Otey;J D Hildebrand;J T Parsons

  • Integrin-dependent phosphorylation and activation of the protein tyrosine kinase pp125FAK in platelets.

    L Lipfert;B Haimovich;M D Schaller;B S Cobb

  • Biochemical signals and biological responses elicited by the focal adhesion kinase.

    Michael D. Schaller

  • pp125FAK-dependent tyrosine phosphorylation of paxillin creates a high-affinity binding site for Crk.

    M D Schaller;J T Parsons

  • Stable association of pp60src and pp59fyn with the focal adhesion-associated protein tyrosine kinase, pp125FAK.

    B. S. Cobb;M. D. Schaller;Tzeng-Horng Leu;J. T. Parsons

  • Cellular functions of FAK kinases: insight into molecular mechanisms and novel functions

    Michael D. Schaller

  • Focal adhesion kinase and associated proteins

    M D Schaller;J T Parsons

  • Paxillin: a focal adhesion-associated adaptor protein

    Michael D Schaller

  • The interplay between Src and integrins in normal and tumor biology

    Martin P Playford;Michael D Schaller

  • JNK phosphorylates paxillin and regulates cell migration

    Cai Huang;Zenon Rajfur;Christoph Borchers;Michael D. Schaller

  • Identification of sequences required for the efficient localization of the focal adhesion kinase, pp125FAK, to cellular focal adhesions.

    J D Hildebrand;M D Schaller;J T Parsons

  • Interaction of focal adhesion kinase with cytoskeletal protein talin.

    Hong-Chen Chen;Paul A. Appeddu;J. Thomas Parsons;Jeffrey D. Hildebrand

  • Structural Basis for the Autoinhibition of Focal Adhesion Kinase

    Daniel Lietha;Xinming Cai;Derek F.J. Ceccarelli;Yiqun Li

  • Paxillin, a tyrosine phosphorylated focal adhesion-associated protein binds to the carboxyl terminal domain of focal adhesion kinase.

    J D Hildebrand;M D Schaller;J T Parsons

  • FAK regulates biological processes important for the pathogenesis of cancer.

    Veronica Gabarra-Niecko;Michael D. Schaller;Jill M. Dunty

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael J. Eck
Michael J. Eck Harvard University
Sharon L. Campbell
Sharon L. Campbell University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
J. Thomas Parsons
J. Thomas Parsons University of Virginia
Ken Jacobson
Ken Jacobson University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Kenneth A. Jacobson
Kenneth A. Jacobson National Institutes of Health
Klaus M. Hahn
Klaus M. Hahn University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
André Veillette
André Veillette University of Montreal
Christoph H. Borchers
Christoph H. Borchers McGill University
Rudy L. Juliano
Rudy L. Juliano University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Alan Richardson
Alan Richardson Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

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