Diane Barber
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Diane L. Barber, from Marin, California, is an American cell physiologist and cell biologist. She is Professor and Chair of the Department of Cell and Tissue Biology at University of California, San Francisco School of Dentistry. In 2012 she became elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science as recognition for her "distinguished contributions on cell signaling by plasma membrane ion transport proteins and on the design and function of proteins regulated by intracellular pH dynamics."[1][2]
Biography
Barber earned a B.Sc. in 1975 and an M.Sc. in 1977 from University of California, Davis, followed by a Ph.D. from University of California, Los Angeles in 1985. She was an NIH postdoctoral fellow (NRSA) in the Department of Physiology at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester. She joined the faculty of the Department of Surgery, Section of Anatomy at Yale University in 1987. In 1991, she returned to California and became Assistant Professor in the Department of Stomatology and Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco. She is currently a Professor and Chair of the Department of Cell and Tissue Biology at University of California, San Francisco.
Career
Barber started her career in biological research as a Ph.D. student with Andrew Soll, at the Centre for Ulcer Research and Education associated with the University of California at Los Angeles, graduating with a Ph.D. in Anatomy in 1985. She went on to complete a Post-Doctoral Fellowship with Susan Leeman at the University of Massachusetts, before taking up her first academic appointment at Yale University in 1987. It was during her time at Yale she became interested in the role of intracellular pH (pHi) and regulation of cellular function, which has remained her research interest.
Research
Barber's research addresses questions on how signaling networks[3] and the actin cytoskeleton [4] control normal and pathological cell behavior, particularly the post-translational modifications of proteins by protonation[5] and by phosphorylation.[6]
References
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- Living people
- American physiologists
- American biologists
- Cell biologists
- University of California, Davis alumni
- University of California, Los Angeles alumni
- University of California, San Francisco faculty
- Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
