Gregory R. Dressler, Ph.D.
Associate Professor

Campus Address:
RESEARCH 4544 MSRBII 0670
1301 Catherine Road
Ann Arbor, Michigan  48109-0602
Phone:  734/764-6490
greg_dressler@mailqm.pds.med.umich.edu

Departmental Annual Report

1999-2000

For information about his Research Laboratory.

Biography

Dr. Dressler earned both his undergraduate and Ph.D. (Genetics/Molecular Biology) degrees at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1981 and 1986, respectively. He then served, from 1987-1989, as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Goettingen, Germany. From 1990 in 1994, he was a Senior Staff Fellow at the Laboratory of Mammalian Genes and Development at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, Maryland from 1990-1994.

Dr. Dressler came to the faculty of the Department of Pathology at the University of Michigan as an Assistant Professor in 1994, where he is also an Assistant Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the University of Michigan. In addition, he currently serves as the Interim Co-Director of the Center for Organogenesis.

The main areas of interest for Dr. Dressler involve the genetic basis of mammalian development. More specifically, the lab utilizes the mammalian kidney to study transcription factors and cell signaling molecules that specify the differentiation of the renal epithelium. How developmental regulatory genes contribute to renal disease is also of interest.

Recent Publications

Ostrom, L., Tang, M.-J., Gruss, P., and Dressler, G.R. (2000) Reduced Pax2 gene dosage increases apoptosis and slows the progression of renal cystic disease. Dev. Biol. 219, 250-258