NAME: Susan Lynn Naylor

PRESENT POSITION AND ADDRESS:
Professor
Department of Cellular & Structural Biology
The University of Texas Health Science Center
7703 Floyd Curl Dr.
San Antonio, TX 78284-7762

TELEPHONE: (210) 567-3842

FAX: (210) 567-6781

DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH: July 6, 1949; Erie, PA

EDUCATION:

• B.S. Biology , 1971. Magna cum laude, Villa Maria College, Erie, PA
  
• M.A. Biology , 1976. The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
  
• Ph.D. Human Genetics , 1977. The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX

PROFESSIONAL AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

• 1970 NSF summer program at Roswell Park Memorial Institute, Buffalo, NY
• 1971 Student teaching at Academy High School, Erie, PA
• 1971 - 1975 NIH predoctoral fellow, Dept. of Biology, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
• 1975 - 1977 Teaching and Research Assistant, Department of Human Biological Chemistry & Genetics, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX
• 1978 - 1981 Research Affiliate, Biochemical Genetics Section, Roswell Park Memorial Institute, Buffalo, NY
• 1979 - 1981 USPHS Postdoctoral Fellow
• 1981 - 1982 Cancer Research Scientist II, Dept. of Human Genetics, RPMI, Buffalo, NY
• 1982 - 1984 Cancer Research Scientist III, Dept. of Human Genetics, RPMI, Buffalo, NY
• 1983 - 1984 Assistant Research Professor, Dept. of Cellular & Molecular Biology, SUNY at Buffalo, Roswell Park Division (Joint Appointment)
• 1984 - 1989 Associate Professor, Dept. of Cellular & Structural Biology, UTHSCSA, San Antonio, TX
• 1989 - Professor, Department of Cellular & Structural Biology, UTHSCSA, San Antonio, TX

HONORS:

1. Villa Maria College Scholarship, 1967
2. B.S. Magna cum laude; Dean's list 7 of 8 semesters at Villa Maria College, 1967-1971
3. Who's Who Among Students in American Colleges and Universities, 1970
4. Erie Business and Professional Women Scholarship, 1970-1971
5. Kappa Gamma Pi Honorary Society, 1971
6. USPHS Predoctoral Traineeship 1971-1975
7. USPHS Postdoctoral Individual NSRA fellowship 1979-1981
8. Outstanding Young Women in America, 1984
9. Recognition for research accomplishments by the National Huntington's Disease Association, 1984.
10. Elected to the Human Genome Organization (HUGO), 1989

GRANT SUPPORT:

1. Research funds from Roswell Park Memorial Institute Biomedical Research Support Grant - 1978, 1981, 1982.
2. National Research Service Award - AM 06168 - Postdoctoral Fellowship, l979-1981.
3. March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation, MOD 1-692, "Somatic Cell Genetic Analysis of Amino Acid Metabolism and the Aminoacidopathies", 1979-1983.
4. Institutional Core Grant Developmental Funds, "Chromosomal Organization of Polypeptide and Glycoprotein Hormone Genes in Normal Tumor Tissue", 1982.
5. American Cancer Society Institutional Research Grant "Molecular Genetic Analysis of Small Lung Cancer", 1983-l984.
6. Institutional Biomedical Research Support Grant, "Construction of a Human Somatic Cell Hybrid Gene Mapping Panel", l984.
7. Council for Tobacco Research - CTR 1620 "Molecular and Genetic Analysis of Small Cell Lung Cancer", 1984-1992.
8. March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation, MOD1-927 "Molecular Genetics of Human Metabolic Disease", 1984-1986.
9. Cystic Fibrosis Foundation/Mather Foundation Z004 - "DNA Markers for Cystic Fibrosis", 1986-1988.
10. Institutional Research Grant - "Chromosome 3 Aberrations in Renal Cancer and Mesothelioma", 1986-1987.
11. National Cancer Institute - CA44764 "Chromosome 3 Aberrations in Cancer", Principal Investigator, 1987-1992.
12. National Institute on Aging Program Project Subgrant, "Molecular Genetic Mechanisms of Aging", Core A, Director, 1987-1989
13. American Cancer Society - declined - "Chromosome 3 Aberrations in Cancer."
14. Meadows Foundation, co-investigator, "A Center for Human Cancer Genetics", A.Y. Sakaguchi, Principal Investigator, 1988-1990.
15. Mather Charitable Foundation, "Chromosomal Deletion and Tumor Suppressor Genes in Small Cell Lung Cancer", Principal Investigator, 1989-1991.
16. National Center for Human Genome Research, HG00315, "A Physical Map of Chromosome 3", GM42353-01, Principal Investigator, 1989-1992.
17. National Institutes of Health, Center for Genome Research, "Symposia on Human Genome Project: ASHG", Principal Investigator, 1989.
18. RGK Foundation, "International Workshop on Human Chromosome 3", Principal Investigator, 1990
19. National Institutes of Health, Center for Human Genome Research, "International Workshop of Human Chromosome 3", Principal Investigator, 1990
20. National Center for Human Genome Research, "Consortium to Construct Chromosome 3 Framework Map" HG00490, Principal Investigator, 1991-1994
21. National Center for Human Genome Research, "International Workshop for Human Chromosome 2", HG00692, 1991
22. National Center for Human Genome Research, "International Workshop on Human Chromosome 3, HG00705, 1992
23. Department of Energy, DE-FG03-93ER61525, "International Workshop on Human Chromosome 2", 1992
24. Department of Energy, DE-FG03-93ER61618/AO, "International Workshop on Human Chromosome 3",1992
25. National Cancer Institute, San Antonio Cancer Institute, Cancer Center Grant, Program Director , 1992 -present
26. Mather Charitable Foundation, "A Common Tumor Suppressor Gene on Chromosome 3p", 1993
27. National Institutes of Health, "Fourth International Workshop on Human Chromosome 3" 1993
28. National Center for Human Genome Research, "Saturation Mapping of Human Chromosome 3", HG00470, Program Project Director, 1992-1997

HUMAN GENOME ACTIVITIES:

• Associate chairman for "Committee on Chromosomes 18-22" at 7th Human Gene Mapping Workshop, Los Angeles, CA, August 21-26, 1983.
• Chairman of "The Committee on the Genetic Constitution of Chromosomes 17, 18, & 19 at the VIIIth Gene Mapping Workshop, Helsinki, Finland, August 4-10, 1985.
• Chairman of the Committee on Chromosome 3 at the 10th Human Gene Mapping Workshop, New Haven, CT, June, 1989 and HGM9.5, August, 1988.
• Curator of Chromosome 3 for the Human Clone Repository, American Type Culture Collection.
• Obtained support from NIH for a Symposium on the Human Genome Project, American Society of Human Genetics, 40th Annual Meeting, November, 1989.
• Hosted the 1st International Workshop on Human Chromosome 3 in San Antonio, TX, February 16-17, 1990.
• Chairman of the Committee on Chromosome 3 at the 11th Human Gene Mapping Workshop, London, United Kingdom, August, 1991 and HGM10.5, Oxford, United Kingdom, September, 1990.
• Committee Member, 2nd International Workshop on Human Chromosome 3, Denver, CO, April 4-7, 1991
• Co-organizer of the First International Workshop on Human Chromosome 2, October, 1991, Washington, D.C.
• Coordinator for U.S. Travel, 3rd International Workshop on Human Chromosome 3", Tokyo, Japan, March 8-9, 1992
• Co-organizer of the Second International Workshop on Human Chromosome 2, San Francisco, CA, November 6-8, 1992
• Coordinator for U.S. Travel, 4th International Workshop on Human Chromosome 3, Groningen, The Netherlands, May, 1993
• Senior Editor of Chromosome 3, Human Genome Database, 1991-present.
• Coordinator for U.S. Travel, Third International Workshop on Human Chromosome 2, Arhaus, Denmark, June, 1994

GRANT AGENCY REVIEW:

• Member of Special Study Section Meeting of Genetics Study Section of the National Institutes of Health, November, 1983
• Member of Special Study Section for the National Institutes of Health, July 19-20, 1984 (RFA on Dioxanes).
• Member of Special Study Section for the National Institutes of Health, March 29-30, 1985 (SBIR Grant Applications).
• Member of Special Study Section for the National Institutes of Health, July 20-22, 1985 (RFP on inhibitors in hemophilia).
• Reviewer for the Medical Research Council of British Columbia, 1986.
• Member of Special Study Section for the National Institutes of Health, June 16-18, 1986 (SBIR Grant Applications).
• Member of site visit team for National Institute of Aging at the Johns Hopkins University, March, 1987.
• Reviewer for the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, 1987.
• Reviewer for National Institutes of Health, Research Conference Grant, 1988.
• Member of site visit team for National Institute of Aging at McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA, February, 1988.
• Member of the Biomedical Sciences Study Section (Subcommittee 7) (1988-1992).
• Member, External Research Review Committee, Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research, San Antonio, TX, 1989-1990.
• Member of Special Study Section for the National Institutes of Health, July 6 & 7, 1989 (SBIR Grant Applications)
• Chairman of the Special Study Section for Experimental Immunology, December, 1989.
• Reviewer for the Canadian Medical Research Council, 1989-present.
• Advisor to NIH on the establishment of a National Genome Database, December, 1990.
• Member of site visit team for National Center for Human Genome Research at the Johns Hopkins University, May, 1991.
• Chair of DRG Study Section to evaluate NCHGR postdoctoral fellowships, March, 1992 and July, 1992.
• Member of site visit team for National Center for Human Genome Research at the Johns Hopkins University, February, 1992.
• Member of administrative site visit team for the National Center for Human Genome Research at Washington University Genome Center, June, 1992.
• Participant in ATCC Planning Meeting, NIH, Bethesda, MD, October, 19, 1992
• Participant in GESTEC Center Director's Meeting, NIH, December 14, 1992
• Member, Biomedical Sciences Study Section, 1988-1992
• Chair, Special Study Section on Genome Fellowships, April 8, 1993
• Member, National Institutes of Health Human Genome Study Section, 1993-1997
• Telephone Review National Cancer Institute, May, 1993
• Veteran Administration Grant Review, September, 1993

INTERNATIONAL SCIENCE:

Reviewer, International Science Foundation, 1993-1994

JOURNAL EDITORIAL REVIEW:

1. Editorial Board, Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics, l986-l992.
2. Associate Editor, Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics, 1989-present.
3. Reviewer for Somatic Cell and Molecular Genetics; Cytogenetics Cell Genetics; Human Genetics; American Journal of Human Genetics; Science; Proceedings of National Academy of Science; Genomics; Cancer Genetics and Cytogenetics; Cancer Research; Molecular Carcinogenesis; Neuron; Biochemical Genetics; Journal of Heredity; Molecular Endocrinology; Chromosomes; Genes and Cancer; Genetic Analysis Techniques and Applications; New England Journal of Medicine; Human Molecular Genetics; PCR Applications and Techniques.
4. Editorial Board, Chromosomes, Genes and Cancer, 1990-present.
5. Editorial Board, Somatic Cell and Molecular Genetics, 1990-present.
6. Editorial Board, Gene Analysis, Techniques and Applications, 1990-present.
7. Senior Editor of Chromosome 3, Human Genome Database, 1991-present

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:

• Member, American Society of Human Genetics, 1978-present
• Member, American Society for Cell Biology, 1978-1984
• Chair, Platform Session, American Society of Human Genetics, 1986
• Member, Program Committee, American Society of Human Genetics, 1987-1991
• Executive Board, Texas Genetics Society, 1988-1991
• Chair, Program Committee, American Society of Human Genetics, 1989-1990
• Member, American Association for Cancer Research, 1988-present
• Member, Ad Hoc Committee on the Genome Project, American Society of Human Genetics, 1989-present
• Member, Human Genome Organization (HUGO), 1989-present
• Board of Directors, American Society of Human Genetics, 1991-1994.
• Member, Public Policy Committee, American Society of Human Genetics, 1991-1993.
• Member, HUGO Travel Award Committee, 1993-present
• Chair, Subcommittee on Research, Strategic Planning Committee, American Society of Human Genetics, 1993-present.

INSTITUTIONAL AND UT SYSTEM ACTIVITIES:

• Member, Admissions Committee for Graduate Program, 1983-1984, Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, RPMI.
• Member of the Graduate Dean Search Committee, 1986-1987.
• Member of the Institutional Research Grants Committee, 1986-1990.
• Member of the Committee on the University Presence in Science Park, 1987, Chair of Proposal Subcommittee.
• Member of the Committee on Committees 1987-1988.
• Chairman, Committee on Committees, 1988
• Member of Department of Cellular and Structural Biology Sub-COGS (Committee on Graduate Studies), 1988-1990
• Member of the Search Committee for the Director of the University of Texas Institute of Biotechnology, 1988
• Chairman of Department of Cellular and Structural Biology Committee on Graduate Stipends, 1987
• Member of Department of Cellular and Structural Biology Committee on Academic Services for Self Review, 1989
• Chair of Committee on University of Texas' Role in the Human Genome Project, 1989
• Director of the UT System Genome Project, 1989-present
• Member of the Institutional Faculty Tenure and Promotions Committee, 1989-1992. Member of the Committee for 20th Anniversary of the Graduate School, UTHSCSA, 1991
• Director of Molecular Genetics Program for the San Antonio Cancer Institute, 1991-present
• Member, Medical School Committee on Committees, 1992-1993
• Member, Search Committee for Chair of Medicine, 1992-1993
• Member, Strategic Planning Committee for Graduate School, 1992-1993
• Outside Member, Tenure & Promotion Committee, Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research, 1993

PRESENTATIONS AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

1. Seminar at University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, April 9, 1979.
2. Seminar at Washington University Medical School, St. Louis, MO, September 4, 1979.
3. Seminar at The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, April 2, 1980.
4. Invited to conduct workshop on bioautography at the 4th International Congress on Isozymes, Austin, TX, June 14-19, 1982 - "Visualization of Isozymes by Bioautography."
5. Course participant in Carolina Workshop on DNA Oligonucleotide Synthesis, Chapel Hill, NC, August 2-6, 1982.
6. Invited seminar speaker, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, April 7, l983.
7. Speaker at American Type Culture Collection symposium, "The Biology and Characterization of Cultured Vertebrate Cell Lines," Bethesda, MD, October 25, 1983.
8. Invited Speaker, Texas Genetics Society Meeting, Houston, TX, March 20-22, l986.
9. Speaker, ICN-UCLA workshop at the "Tumor Promoters, Growth Factors and Oncogenes" meeting, Steamboat Springs, CO, April 6-13, 1986.
10. Invited Speaker, M.D. Anderson Tumor Institute, Houston, TX, July 10, 1986.
11. Invited Speaker, Texas Tissue Culture Association, Houston, TX, March, 1987.
12. Invited Speaker, The Neuroscience Institute, Austin, TX, May 15, 1987.
13. Invited Speaker, International Conference on Hormones, Growth Factors and Oncogenes in Pulmonary Carcinoma, Hanover, NH, August, 1987.
14. Invited Speaker, 40th Annual M.D. Anderson Synposium, Houston, TX, November, 1987.
15. Invited Speaker, The 49th Annual Oregon State University Biology Colloquium on Tumor Suppressor Genes, Corvallis, OR, May, 1988.
16. Invited Speaker, National Cancer Institute, Carcinogenesis Laboratories, June, 1988. Invited Speaker, Division of Reseach Grants Study Section Seminar Series, July 27, 1988.
17. Postdoctoral Fellow chosen for Plenary Session, American Society of Human Genetics Meeting, October, 1988.
18. Invited Speaker, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Biology Division, March 6, 1989.
19. Invited Speaker, Texas Genetics Society, "Human Genome Project: Application to Texas Research", March, 1990.
20. Invited Speaker, Cold Spring Harbor Banbury Conference, "Women and Cancer", April, 1990. Invited Speaker, Tissue Culture Assoc. Annual Meeting, "The Human Genome Project", 1990.
21. Invited Speaker, University of Cincinnati, July, 1990
22. Invited Speaker, Texas Carcinogenesis VIII Meeting, "Tumor Suppressor Genes", University of Texas System Cancer Center, Smithville, TX, October, 1990.
23. Invited Speaker, "Genetic Instability" Keystone Symposium, Tammaron, CO, February, 1991.
24. Invited Speaker, U.S.-Japan Conference on Renal Cell Carcinoma, Honolulu, HI, February, 1991.
25. Invited Speaker, Texas Genetics Society, Dallas, TX, March 14-16, 1991.
26. Visiting Lecturer, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, October 23-24, 1991.
27. Invited Speaker, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Symposium, Seattle, WA, November 7-10, 1991.
28. Participant, Meeting of Framework Mapping Group, Washington, D.C., October 5-6, 1991 and Cold Spring Harbor, NY, 1992.
29. Participant, NIH Director's Chairperson's Meeting, Bethesda, MD, January 17, 1992 and La Jolla, CA, May 15-17, 1992.
30. Participant, Mexico/San Antonio Health Sciences, American Embassy in Mexico City, Mexico, June 4-5, 1992.
31. Invited Speaker, Roswell Park Cancer Center, Molecular Genetics Seminar, Buffalo, NY, July 20, 1992.
32. Participant, Chromosome Coordinating Meeting, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, November 15-16, 1992.
33. Laboratory tour, Young Astronauts of San Antonio Academy, December 14, 1992.
34. Invited Speaker and Panelist, Texas State Agency Council for the Governor's Commission for Women, February 25, 1993.
35. Invited Lecturer, Trinity University, April 16, 1993.
36. Invited Speaker, San Antonio Cancer Meeting, July 23, 1993.
37. Invited Speaker, American Society of Human Genetics, New Orleans, Louisiana, October, 1993.
38. Chromosome Coordinating Meeting (CCM93), Tsukuba, Japan, November, 1993 (Chromosome 3 senior editor).
39. Invited Participant, 4th Breast Cancer "Think Tank", Cozumel, Mexico, January 23-29, 1994.
40. Seminar, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, February 3, 1994.
41. Inivted Speaker at Keystone Symposia, Taos, NM, February, 1994.
42. Invited Speaker, Annual Meeting of German Human Genetics Society, Dusseldorf, Germany, March 26, 1994.
43. Seminar, University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany, March 28, 1994.
44. Seminar, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, April 6, 1994.
45. Invited Speaker, Women's Issues in Science, American Society for Experimental Biology American Association of Pathologists, (FASEB), Anaheim, CA, April 25, 1994.
46. Presentation at the Chromosome 3 Workshop, Ann Arbor, MI, May, 1994.
47. Presentation at the Cold Spring Harbor Genome Meeting, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, May, 1994.

COURSES CURRENTLY TEACHING:

1. Introduction to Research. Lecturer.
   Lectures on the research ongoing in my laboratory.
2. CSBL, Medical Genetics . Co-Organizer.
   Course on medical genetics currently being given to fourth year medical students. Format is a short didactic course on genetic principals, followed by a laboratory exercise with specific genetic disorders, The student must make the diagnosis, assess the mode of inheritance, analyze the laboratory data, and advise a doctor on the probability that specific family members will be affected.
3. Molecular Medicine, Molecular Medicine Core Course, April 13, 1994. Lecturer.
   Lectured on the molecular biology of lung cancer.
4. Trinity University, Undergraduate Genetics. Lecturer.
   Annual lecture on human molecular genetics and lab practicum.
5. Student Dissertation Committees
   

   C & S Biology		Biochemistry	Microbiology
   
   Sean Todd		Brad Rikke	Dave Martin
   Teresa Johnson-Pais	Donna Louie
   Kim Howes		Carol Casavant
   Randall Lanier
   Janet Guthmiller
   Rachel Grimes
   

   1. University of Texas, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
      Elizabeth Schubert
   2. University of Groningen, The Netherlands
      Klaas Kok
   3. Current Graduate Students
      Rachel Grimes
   4. Current Postdoctoral Fellows :
      Helene Carlson
      Maria Daly, Ph.D.
      Charles Hensel, Ph.D.
      RuiHua Xiang, M.D.
      Klaas Kok, Ph.D.
      
   5. Current Technical Help
      Dawn Garcia
      Xin He
      Karen Kerbacher
      Shanna Moore
      Mauro Mohrer
      

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