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Janice Fischer
Janice Fischer

Professor

Ph.D. Harvard University, 1988

jaf@mail.utexas.edu

Office MBB 1.312AA

(512) 471-5831

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* Molecular mechanisms of cell communication in Drosophila eye development
* Regulation of cell communication by ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation
* Molecular genetics of endocytosis and its role in cell communication


Selected Publications


Fischer-Vize, JA, Vize, PD and Rubin, GM (1992) A unique mutation in the Enhancer of split gene complex affects the fates of the mystery cells in the developing Drosophila eye. Development 115, 89-101.

Fischer-Vize, JA, Rubin, GM and Lehmann, R (1992) The fat facets gene is required for Drosophila eye and embryo development. Development 116, 985-1000.

Fischer-Vize, JA and Mosley, KL (1994) marbles mutants: uncoupling cell determination and nuclear migration in the developing Drosophila eye. Development 120, 2609-2618.

Huang, Y, Baker, RT and Fischer-Vize, JA (1995) Control of cell fate by a deubiquitinating enzyme encoded by the fat facets gene. Science 270, 1828-1831.

Huang, Y and Fischer-Vize, JA (1996) Undifferentiated cells in the developing Drosophila eye influence facet assembly and require the Fat facets deubiquitinating enzyme. Development 122, 3207-3216.

Fischer, JA,Leavell, K and Li, Q (1997) Mutagenesis screens for interacting genes reveal three roles for fat facets during Drosophila eye development. Developmental Genetics 21, 167-174.

Li, Q, Hariharan, IK, Chen, F, Huang, Y and Fischer, JA (1997) Genetic interactions with Rap1 and Ras1 reveal a second function for the fat facets gene in Drosophila eye development. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 94, 12515-12520.

Ru, Z, Li, Q, Fortini, M and Fischer, JA (1999) Genetic analysis of the role of the Drosophila fat facets gene in the ubiquitin pathway. Developmental Genetics 25, 312-320.

Mosley-Bishop, KL, Li, Q, Patterson, K and Fischer, JA (1999) Molecular analysis of the klarsicht gene and its role in nuclear migration within differentiating cells of the Drosophila eye. Current Biology 9, 1211-1220.

Cadavid, ALM., Ginzel, A and Fischer, JA (2000) The function of the Drosophila Fat facets deubiquitinating enzyme in limiting photoreceptor cell number is intimately associated with endocytosis. Development 127, 1727-1736.

Fischer, JA (2000) Molecular motors and developmental asymmetry. Current Opinion in Genetics and Development 10, 489-496

Chen, X, Overstreet, E, Wood, SA and Fischer, JA (2000) On the conservation of function of the Drosophila Fat facets deubiquitinating enzyme and Fam, its mouse homolog. Development Genes and Evolution, 210, 603-610.

Chen, X and Fischer, JA (2000) In vivo structure/function analysis of the Drosophila fat facets deubiquitinating enzyme gene. Genetics 156, 1829-1836

Fischer, JA (2001) Developmental regulation through protein stability. In Results and Problems in Cell Differentiation: Drosophila eye development. ed. K. Moses. Springer-Verlag

Chen X, Zhang B, Fischer, JA (2002) A specific protein substrate for a deubiquitinating enzyme: Liquid facets is the substrate of Faf facets. Genes and Development 16: 289-294.

Fischer, JA , Overstreet, E (2002) Fat facets does a Highwire act at the synapse. Bioessays 24:13-16.

Fischer, JA (2003) The role of molecular motors in generating developmental asymmetry. In Molecular Motors, ed. M. Schliwa, Wiley-VCH. Chapter 15, pp. 357-376.

Overstreet, E, Chen, X, Wendland, B, Fischer, JA (2003) Either part of a Drosophila epsin (Liquid facets) protein, divided after the ENTH domain, functions in the internalization of Delta in the developing eye. Current Biology 13:854-860.

Fischer, JA (2003) Deubiquitinating enzymes: their roles in development, differentiation, and disease. International Review of Cytology 229:43-72.

Patterson, K, Molofsky, A, Robinson, C, Acosta, S, Cater, C, Fischer, JA (2004) The roles of Klarsicht, lamin, and the MTOC in developmentally regulated migration of photoreceptors in the Drosophila eye. Molecular Biology of the Cell 15: 600-610.

Overstreet E, Fitch E, Fischer JA (2004) Fat facets and Liquid facets promote Delta endocytosis and Delta signaling in the signaling cells. Development 131:5355-5366.

Fischer JA, Acosta S, Kenny A, Robinson C, Cater C, Hook J (2004) Drosophila Klarsicht has distinct domains for nuclear envelope and microtubule localization in the eye. Genetics 168:1382-1393.

Starr D, Fischer JA (2005) KASH domain proteins. KASH ‘n Karry: the KASH domain family of cargo-specific cytoskeletal adaptor proteins. Bioessays 27:1136-1146.

Fischer JA, Eun SH, Doolan B. (2006) Endocytosis, membrane trafficking and the regulation of Drosophila development. Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology 22:181-206

Eun SH, Lea K, Overstreet E, Stevens S, Lee J-H, Fischer JA. (2007) Identification of genes that interact with Drosophila liquid facets. Genetics 175:1163-1174

Kracklauer M, Banks S, Xie X, Wu Y, Fischer JA (2007) Drosophila klaroid encodes a SUN domain protein required for Klarsicht localization to the nuclear envelope and nuclear migration in the eye. FLY 1:75-85

 
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