SHANNON STEVENSON

Assistant Professor
B.A., 1997,Carleton College
Ph.D., 2001, University of California, Berkeley

Email: slsteven@d.umn.edu
Office: 309 LSci
Phone: 726-7712

Office Hours: 

     Monday 10:00 - 11:00

   Thursday   9:30 - 10:30

Research

I am broadly interested in how cells communicate with each other and their environments. I studied the role of Transforming Growth Factor ß signaling in inhibiting tumor cell growth during graduate school.  As a post-doc, I used Drosophila immune cells as a model system to assay interaction and phagocytosis of the human fungal pathogen Candida albicans.  Currently, I teach exclusively and am interested in the role of active learning in improving student understanding

Selected Recent Publications

Stroschein-Stevenson, S.L., Foley, E., O'Farrell, P.H., and Johnson, A.D. (2009)  Phagocytosis of Candida albicans by RNAi treated Drosophila S2 cells.  Methods in Molecular Biology 470:347-58.

Stroschein-Stevenson, S.L., Foley, E., O'Farrell, P.H., and Johnson, A.D. (2006)  Identification of Drosophila gene products required for phagocytosis of Candida albicans.  PLoS Biology  4:e4.

Stroschein, S.L., Bonni, S., Wrana, J.L., and Luo, K. (2001) Smad3 recruits the anaphase promoting complex for ubiquitination and degradation of SnoN.  Genes Dev.  15:2822-2836.

Stroschein, S.L., Wang, W., Zhou, S., Zhou, Q., and Luo, K (1999) Negative feedback regulation of TGF-b signaling by the SnoN oncoprotein.  Science 286:771-774.

Luo, K., Stroschein, S.L., Wang, W., Chen, D., Martens, E., Zhou, S., and Zhou, Q. (1999) The Ski oncoprotein interacts with the Smad proteins to repress TGF-b signaling.  Genes Dev.  13:2196-2206.

 

Teaches

• BIOL 1011 General Biology I
• 2102 Cell Biology
• 2102 Cell Biology Laboratory
• 3101 Molecular Biology of Cancer
• 3102 Cell Biology of Human Disease

Family/Hobbies

I enjoy spending time with my husband Mike and our three kids Tierney, Kai and Cora. We like to travel, cook new foods and spend time outdoors.