Dunne Fong
Associate Professor

 

Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience

Rutgers University
Division of Life Sciences
C226 Nelson Biological Laboratories
604 Allison Road
Piscataway, NJ 08854-8082

TEL (732) 445-5268
FAX (732) 445-3694
EMAIL
fong@biology.rutgers.edu


Molecular Cell Biology lecture outline

01:146:470 Advanced Cell Biology

01:146:471 Advanced Cell Biology Laboratory

16:148:598 Seminar in Cell and Developmental Biology

 

Research:

Molecular cell biology of telomerase, proteinase and proteinase inhibitors

Cell and molecular biology of the oyster parasitic protozoan Haplosporidium nelsoni and the human parasitic protozoan Leishmania species

 

 

Selected Publications:

M.M. Chan and D. Fong. (1990) Inhibition of leishmanias but not host macrophages by the antitubulin herbicide trifluralin. Science 249, 924-926

M.M. Chan, M. Grogl, C.C. Chen, E.J. Bienen and D. Fong. (1993) Herbicides to curb human parasitic infections: In vitro and in vivo effects of trifluralin on the trypanosomatid protozoans. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 90, 5657-5661

M.M. Chan and D. Fong. (1994) Plant microtubule inhibitors against trypanosomatids. Parasitol. Today 10, 448-451

M.M. Chan, M. Grogl, H, Callahan and D. Fong. (1995) Efficacy of the herbicide trifluralin against four P-glycoprotein-expressing strains of Leishmania. Antimicrob. Agents. Chemother. 39, 1609-1611

M.M. Chan, H.I. Huang, M.R. Fenton and D. Fong (1998) In vivo inhibition of nitric oxide synthase gene expression by curcumin, a cancer preventive natural product with anti-inflammatory properties. Biochem. Pharmacol. 55, 1955-1962

M.M. Chan and D. Fong. (1999) Modulation of the nitric oxide pathway by natural products. In "Cellular and Molecular Biology of Nitric Oxide", pp. 333-351, ed. Laskin, J. D. & Laskin, D. L., Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York

Y.T. Ko, M.M. Chan, S.E. Ford and D. Fong. (1999) A PCR-ELISA method for direct detection of the oyster pathogen Haplosporidium nelsoni. Marine Biotechnol., 1, 147-154