David Wassarman

Position title: Professor

Email: dawassarman@wisc.edu

Phone: 608-262-6648

Address:
Genetics
Mechanisms underlying neurodegeneration

Address
4262 Genetics/Biotech
Education
B.S., Bates College, Ph.D., Yale University, Postdoctoral Research, Univ. of California - Berkeley
Department
Medical Genetics
Research Interests
The genetics of neurodegenerative diseases
Research Fields
Disease Biology, Cell Biology, Development, Neuro & Behavioral Genetics, Drosophila

Research Description:
My laboratory is interested in understanding the role that genetic variation plays in determining outcomes of traumatic brain injury.


Representative Publications:

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Katzenberger RJ, Ganetzky B, Wassarman DA. Lissencephaly-1 mutations enhance traumatic brain injury outcomes in Drosophila. Genetics. 2023 Mar 2;223(3):iyad008. doi: 10.1093/genetics/iyad008.

 

Swanson LC, Trujillo EA, Thiede GH, Katzenberger RJ, Shishkova E, Coon JJ, Ganetzky B, Wassarman DA. Survival following traumatic brain injury in Drosophila is increased by heterozygosity for a mutation of the NF-κB innate immune response transcription factor Relish. Genetics. 2020 Dec;216(4):1117-1136. doi: 10.1534/genetics.120.303776.

 

Katzenberger RJ, Loewen CA, Wassarman DR, Petersen AJ, Ganetzky B, Wassarman DA. A Drosophila model of closed head traumatic brain injury. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2013 Oct 29;110(44):E4152-9. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1316895110. Epub 2013 Oct 14. PMID: 24127584; PMCID: PMC3816429.