Molecular mechanisms of vasculogenesis and angiogenesis

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BS: Vilnius University, Biochemistry, Vilnius, Lithuania, 1995.

PhD: University of Minnesota, Department of Biochemistry, Minnepolis / St. Paul, MN, 2000.

Postdoctoral Fellow: University of California, Los Angeles, 2002-2007.

Proulx K, Lu A, Sumanas S. Cranial vasculature in zebrafish forms by angioblast cluster-derived angiogenesis. Dev Biol. 2010 Dec 1;348(1):34-46.

Wong KS, Proulx K, Rost MS, Sumanas S. Identification of vasculature-specific genes by microarray analysis of Etsrp/Etv2 overexpressing zebrafish embryos. Dev Dyn. 2009 Jul;238(7):1836-50.

Sumanas S, Gomez G, Zhao Y, Park C, Choi K, Lin S. Interplay between Etsrp/ER71, scl and alk8 signaling controls endothelial and myeloid cell formation. Blood. 2008 May;111(9):4500-4510.

Sumanas S, Lin S.  Ets1-related protein is a key regulator of vasculogenesis in zebrafish. PLOS Biol. 2006 Jan;4(1):e10.

Kim HJ, Sumanas S, Palencia-Desai S, Dong Y, Chen J-N, Lin S. Genetic analysis of early endocrine pancreas formation in zebrafish. Mol Endocrinol. 2006 Jan;20(1):194-203.

Kim HJ, Schleiffarth JR, Jessurun J, Sumanas S, Petryk A, Lin S, Ekker SC. Wnt5 Signaling in Vertebrate Pancreas Development. BMC Biol. 2005 Oct;3:23.

Sumanas S, Jorniak T, Lin S. Identification of novel vascular endothelial-specific genes by the microarray analysis of the zebrafish cloche mutants. Blood. 2005 Jul;106(2):534-541.

Sumanas S, Zhang B, Dai R, Lin S. 15-zinc finger protein Bloody Fingers is required for zebrafish morphogenetic movements during neurulation. Dev Biol. 2005 Jul;283(1):85-96.

Sumanas S, Lin S. Zebrafish as a model system for drug target screening and validation. Drug Disc Today: Targets. 2004;3:89-96.