Education
Graduate School
University of Texas-Austin (1998), Zoology

Research Interest
  • Angiogenesis/vasculogenesis
  • Developmental biology
  • Diabetes research
  • Organogenesis
  • Stem cell differentiation

Publications

Featured Publications LegendFeatured Publications

Rasip1 is essential to blood vessel stability and angiogenic blood vessel growth.
Koo Y, Barry DM, Xu K, Tanigaki K, Davis GE, Mineo C, Cleaver O Angiogenesis 2016 Feb
Cdc42 and k-Ras Control Endothelial Tubulogenesis through Apical Membrane and Cytoskeletal Polarization: Novel Stimulatory Roles for GTPase Effectors, the Small GTPases, Rac2 and Rap1b, and Inhibitory Influence of Arhgap31 and Rasa1.
Norden PR, Kim DJ, Barry DM, Cleaver OB, Davis GE PLoS ONE 2016 11 1 e0147758
Pdx1 regulates pancreas tubulogenesis and E-cadherin expression.
Marty-Santos L, Cleaver O Development 2015 Dec
Endosomal sorting of Notch receptors through COMMD9-dependent pathways modulates Notch signaling.
Li H, Koo Y, Mao X, Sifuentes-Dominguez L, Morris LL, Jia D, Miyata N, Faulkner RA, van Deursen JM, Vooijs M, Billadeau DD, van de Sluis B, Cleaver O, Burstein E J. Cell Biol. 2015 Nov 211 3 605-17
Progenitor Epithelium: Sorting Out Pancreatic Lineages.
Marty-Santos L, Cleaver O J. Histochem. Cytochem. 2015 Aug 63 8 559-74
Wnt4 Is essential to normal mammalian lung development.
Caprioli A, Villasenor A, Wylie LA, Braitsch C, Marty-Santos L, Barry D, Karner CM, Fu S, Meadows SM, Carroll TJ, Cleaver O Dev. Biol. 2015 Aug
Cdc42 is required for cytoskeletal support of endothelial cell adhesion during blood vessel formation.
Barry DM, Xu K, Meadows SM, Zheng Y, Norden PR, Davis GE, Cleaver O Development 2015 Aug
Vascular patterning: coordinated signals keep blood vessels on track.
Meadows SM, Cleaver O Curr. Opin. Genet. Dev. 2015 Mar 32C 86-91
Annexin A3 Regulates Early Blood Vessel Formation.
Meadows SM, Cleaver O PLoS ONE 2015 10 7 e0132580
Outside in: inversion of cell polarity controls epithelial lumen formation.
Davis GE, Cleaver OB Dev. Cell 2014 Oct 31 2 140-2

Honors & Awards
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute
    Postdoctoral fellowship (2003)
  • Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Research Fund
    Postdoctoral fellowship (2000)

Professional Associations/Affiliations
  • Center for Regenerative Science and Medicine (2015)