Name

Di Cesare, Silvana Patricia

Date of birth

23. September 1963

Place of birth

La Plata, Argentina

Education

1968-1975

Primary school

Colegio Corazon Eucaristico de Jesus, La Plata

1976-1980

Secondary school

Colegio Corazon Eucaristico de Jesus, La Plata

1981-1989

Studies and Graduation in Biochemistry

Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata

1992-1995

Dissertation in Human Biology: Studies of the immunoneuroendocrine interactions in an animal model of systemic lupus erythemathosus.

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Hugo Besedovsky

Philipps-Universität, Marburg

since 1996

Graduate student. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Walter Birchmeier

Max-Delbrück-Centrum für Molekulare Medizin, Berlin

Publications

Weidner, K. M., S. Di Cesare, M. Sachs, V. Brinkmann, J. Behrens, W. Birchmeier (1996). Interaction between Gab1 and the c-Met receptor tyrosine kinase is responsible for epithelial morphogenesis. Nature 384, 173-176.

Birchmeier, W., V. Brinkmann, C. Niemann, S. Meiners, S. Di Cesare, H. Naundorf, M. Sachs (1997). Role of HGF/SF and c-Met in morphogenesis and metastasis of epithelial cells. In Plasminogen-related growth factors (eds. G. R. Bock and J. A. Goode). John Wiley and Sons Ltd, West Sussex, England.

Di Cesare S., K. M. Weidner, M. Sachs, V. Brinkmann, W. Birchmeier (1996). Gab1 functionally interacts with c-Met to mediate branching morphogenesis. In Mol. Biol. Cell (ASCB Abstracts, Supplement to Vol. 7).

Grimm, J., M. Sachs, S. Britsch, S. Di Cesare, T. Schwarz-Romond, K. Alitalo, W. Birchmeier (2001). Novel p62dok family members, dok-4 and dok-5, are substrates of the c-Ret receptor tyrosine kinase and mediate neuronal differentiation. J. Cell Biol. 154(2), 345-354.

Di Cesare S., J. Huelsken, B. Erdmann, M. Sachs, J. Grimm, W. Birchmeier (2001). The guanine nucleotide exchange factor Vav2 induces alveolar morphogenesis of mammary gland epithelial cells. (Manuscript in preparation).