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Focal adhesion kinase-regulated signaling events in human cancer

• Wei Fu

  Dr. Wei Fu received his MD from the China Medical University and was a Research Assistant Professor at the Neuroendocrine Research Division of the Brain Research Institute from 1993 to 1999. Dr. Fu completed the research training program in Physiology and Cell Biology at China Medical University in 2003, and then was a Visiting Research Scholar at the Kanazawa Medical University in Japan from 2003 to 2004. In 2004 Dr. Fu joined the group of Dr. Jun Liu in the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology at West Virginia University as a Visiting Research Scholar. He joined Dr. Fred Minnear’s laboratory in 2007 as a Post-doctoral Associate and Dr. Mike Schaller’s lab in 2009 as a Research Associate.

  , Jessica E. Hall

  Jessica E. Hall graduated from West Virginia University in 2007 with dual Bachelor’s degrees in Biology and Forensic and Investigative Science. She then worked at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health before returning to graduate school. Jessica is currently pursuing her Doctorate in Biochemistry and is studying in the structural and conformational changes in FAK upon activation.

  and Michael D. Schaller

  Dr. Michael D. Schaller is Professor and Chair of Biochemistry in the School of Medicine at West Virginia University. He received his doctorate degree from McMaster University and performed his post-doctoral work with Dr. J. Thomas Parsons at the University of Virginia. In 1994, Dr. Schaller joined the faculty in the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has been on the faculty at WVU since 2008. The main area of research interest in the Schaller laboratory is signal transduction events controlled by cell-extracellular matrix interactions, particularly those involving the Focal Adhesion Kinase.