David M Eisenmann
Professor
Biological Sciences
Biological Sciences Bldg 426
Education
Ph D Harvard University 1992
BS University of Pennsylvania 1985
About
I received my training in the fields of Genetics and Developmental Biology and I am fascinated by the process of development. I teach or have taught courses in the areas of genetics, biochemistry, molecular biology, developmental biology and cell signaling. I also serve as Undergraduate Program Director for the Department of Biological Sciences.
Research Interests
For 25 years my laboratory studied animal developmental biology, in particular the process of cell fate specification - how newly born cells know what fate to adopt during development. We focused on two types of skin cells that arise during development in the invertebrate model system, the nematode worm C. elegans. In the past, we studied the regulation of gene expression downstream of the Wnt signaling pathway in the lateral seam cells and ventral vulval precursor cells in this animal. More recently we examined: 1) the function of pax-3, a gene that regulates the choice between these two skin cell types during embryogenesis, and 2) the temporal co-regulation of a large set of genes in the worm's skin cells during larval life.
NOTE: The Eisenmann lab is no longer accepting students, graduate or undergraduate.
Teaching Interests
BIOL 302 Molecular and General Genetics
BIOL 430 Biochemistry
BIOL 442 Developmental Biology
BIOL 443 Advanced Topics in Developmental Biology
BIOL 445 Signal Transduction
Intellectual Contributions
Thompson, K W., Joshi, P, Dymond, J S., Gorrepati, L, Smith, H E., Krause, M W., David, Eisenmann M. (2016). The Paired-box protein PAX-3 regulates the choice between lateral and ventral epidermal cell fates in C. elegans.. 2. 412 191-207 Developmental biology.
Gorrepati, L, Krause, M W., Chen, W, Brodigan, T M., Correa-Mendez, M, David, Eisenmann M. (2015). Identification of Wnt Pathway Target Genes Regulating the Division and Differentiation of Larval Seam Cells and Vulval Precursor Cells in Caenorhabditis elegans.. 8. 5 1551-66 G3 (Bethesda, Md.).
Gorrepati, L, David, Eisenmann M. (2015). The C. elegans embryonic fate specification factor EGL-18 (GATA) is reutilized downstream of Wnt signaling to maintain a population of larval progenitor cells.. 1. 4 e996419 Worm.
Liu, W J., Reece-Hoyes, J S., Walhout, A J., David, Eisenmann M. (2014). Multiple transcription factors directly regulate Hox gene lin-39 expression in ventral hypodermal cells of the C. elegans embryo and larva, including the hypodermal fate regulators LIN-26 and ELT-6.. 14 17 BMC developmental biology.
Jackson, B M., Abete-Luzi, P, Krause, M W., David, Eisenmann M. (2014). Use of an activated beta-catenin to identify Wnt pathway target genes in caenorhabditis elegans, including a subset of collagen genes expressed in late larval development.. 4. 4 733-47 G3 (Bethesda, Md.).
Gorrepati, L, Thompson, K W., David, Eisenmann M. (2013). C. elegans GATA factors EGL-18 and ELT-6 function downstream of Wnt signaling to maintain the progenitor fate during larval asymmetric divisions of the seam cells.. 10. 140 2093-102 Development (Cambridge, England).
Jackson, B M., David, Eisenmann M. (2012). β-catenin-dependent Wnt signaling in C. elegans: teaching an old dog a new trick.. 8. 4 a007948 Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology.
David, Eisenmann M. (2011). C. elegans seam cells as stem cells: Wnt signaling and casein kinase Iα regulate asymmetric cell divisions in an epidermal progenitor cell type.. 1. 10 20-1 Cell cycle (Georgetown, Tex.).
Gleason, J E., David, Eisenmann M. (2010). Wnt signaling controls the stem cell-like asymmetric division of the epithelial seam cells during C. elegans larval development.. 1. 348 58-66 Developmental biology.
Weidhaas, J B., David, Eisenmann M., Holub, J M., Nallur, S V. (2006). A conserved RAS/mitogen-activated protein kinase pathway regulates DNA damage-induced cell death postirradiation in Radelegans.. 21. 66 10434-8 Cancer research.
Gleason, J E., Szyleyko, E A., David, Eisenmann M. (2006). Multiple redundant Wnt signaling components function in two processes during C. elegans vulval development.. 2. 298 442-57 Developmental biology.
Wagmaister, J A., Miley, G R., Morris, C A., Gleason, J E., Miller, L M., Kornfeld, K, David, Eisenmann M. (2006). Identification of cis-regulatory elements from the C. elegans Hox gene lin-39 required for embryonic expression and for regulation by the transcription factors LIN-1, LIN-31 and LIN-39.. 2. 297 550-65 Developmental biology.
Weidhaas, J B., David, Eisenmann M., Holub, J M., Nallur, S V. (2006). A Caenorhabditis elegans tissue model of radiation-induced reproductive cell death.. 26. 103 9946-51 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
Wagmaister, J A., Gleason, J E., David, Eisenmann M. (2006). Transcriptional upregulation of the C. elegans Hox gene lin-39 during vulval cell fate specification.. 2. 123 135-50 Mechanisms of development.
David, Eisenmann M. (2005). Wnt signaling.. 1-17 WormBook : the online review of C. elegans biology.
Natarajan, L, Jackson, B M., Szyleyko, E, David, Eisenmann M. (2004). Identification of evolutionarily conserved promoter elements and amino acids required for function of the C. elegans beta-catenin homolog BAR-1.. 2. 272 536-57 Developmental biology.
Joshi, P, David, Eisenmann M. (2004). The Caenorhabditis elegans pvl-5 gene protects hypodermal cells from ced-3-dependent, ced-4-independent cell death.. 2. 167 673-85 Genetics.
Koh, K, Peyrot, S M., Wood, C G., Wagmaister, J A., Maduro, M F., David, Eisenmann M., Rothman, J H. (2002). Cell fates and fusion in the C. elegans vulval primordium are regulated by the EGL-18 and ELT-6 GATA factors -- apparent direct targets of the LIN-39 Hox protein.. 22. 129 5171-80 Development (Cambridge, England).
Gleason, J E., Korswagen, H C., David, Eisenmann M. (2002). Activation of Wnt signaling bypasses the requirement for RTK/Ras signaling during C. elegans vulval induction.. 10. 16 1281-90 Genes & development.
Natarajan, L, Witwer, N E., David, Eisenmann M. (2001). The divergent Caenorhabditis elegans beta-catenin proteins BAR-1, WRM-1 and HMP-2 make distinct protein interactions but retain functional redundancy in vivo.. 1. 159 159-72 Genetics.
David, Eisenmann M., Kim, S K. (2000). Protruding vulva mutants identify novel loci and Wnt signaling factors that function during Caenorhabditis elegans vulva development.. 3. 156 1097-116 Genetics.
Stolinski, L A., David, Eisenmann M., Arndt, K M. (1997). Identification of RTF1, a novel gene important for TATA site selection by TATA box-binding protein in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.. 8. 17 4490-500 Molecular and cellular biology.
David, Eisenmann M., Kim, S K. (1997). Mechanism of activation of the Caenorhabditis elegans ras homologue let-60 by a novel, temperature-sensitive, gain-of-function mutation.. 2. 146 553-65 Genetics.
David, Eisenmann M., Kim, S K. (1994). Signal transduction and cell fate specification during Caenorhabditis elegans vulval development.. 4. 4 508-16 Current opinion in genetics & development.
David, Eisenmann M., Chapon, C, Roberts, S M., Dollard, C, Winston, F. (1994). The Saccharomyces cerevisiae SPT8 gene encodes a very acidic protein that is functionally related to SPT3 and TATA-binding protein.. 3. 137 647-57 Genetics.
David, Eisenmann M., Arndt, K M., Ricupero, S L., Rooney, J W., Winston, F. (1992). SPT3 interacts with TFIID to allow normal transcription in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.. 7. 6 1319-31 Genes & development.
Arndt, K M., Ricupero, S L., David, Eisenmann M., Winston, F. (1992). Biochemical and genetic characterization of a yeast TFIID mutant that alters transcription in vivo and DNA binding in vitro.. 5. 12 2372-82 Molecular and cellular biology.
David, Eisenmann M., Dollard, C, Winston, F. (1989). SPT15, the gene encoding the yeast TATA binding factor TFIID, is required for normal transcription initiation in vivo.. 6. 58 1183-91 Cell.