Associate Adjunct Professor

•  Bucknell University; Lewisburg, PA, Biology, BS, 1987
• AECOM; Bronx, NY, Pathology, MS, 1991
• AECOM; Bronx, NY, Pathology, Ph.D., 1994

American Association for the Advancement of Science

1/2005-Present Associate Adjunct Professor, UC Davis, School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA
 
4/2004-10/2004 Visiting Scientist, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA

2002-Present Member, UC Davis Cancer Center, Sacramento, CA

2002-2004 Multi-Location Appointment, UC Davis Cancer Center, Sacramento, CA

1997-2004 Senior Biomedical Scientist, Biology and Biotechnology Research Program,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, University of California, Livermore, CA

1994-1997 Post-doctoral Fellow, Biology and Biotechnology Research Program,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, University of California, Livermore, CA

1989-1994 Pre-doctoral Fellow, Dept. of Pathology, Yeshiva University, Bronx, NY

1987-1989 Senior Laboratory Technician, Dept. of Nutrition, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

Laboratory Directed Research Directorate Feasibility Award, 2004

UC Davis Biotechnology Award, 2003

UC Discovery Grant, 2003

Work For Others, University Health Network, 2002

Mary Stuart Rodgers Foundation Award, 2002

UC Davis Biotechnology Award, 2002

Work For Others, Phylos, Inc., 2001

NIH R01, National Cancer Institute, 2000

Lab Directed Research and Development Strategic Initiative Award, 1999

California Breast Cancer Research Program, New Investigator Award, 1999

National Cancer Institute, Shannon Award, 1999

University of California BioSTAR Award, 1999

Laboratory Directed Research Directorate Exploratory Research Award, 1998

Laboratory Directed Research Directorate Exploratory Research Award, 1995

2003  LLNL Biology and Biotechnology Research Program Achievement Award, 2003
2001  LLNL Biology and Biotechnology Research Program Achievement Award, 2001
2000  LLNL Biology and Biotechnology Research Program Achievement Award, 2000
1989 - 1994  Sue Golding Graduate Fellowship, 1989-1994

Rual, J.-F., Venkatesan, K., Hao, T., Hirozane-Kishikawa, T., Dricot, AM., Li, N., Berriz, G. F., Gibbons, F., Dreze, M., Ayivi-Guedehoussou, N., Klitgord, N., Simon, C., Boxem, M., Milstein, S., Rosenberg, J., Goldberg, D. S., Zhang, L. V., Wong, S. L., Franklin, G., Li, S., Albala, J. S., Lim, J., Fraughton, C., Llamosas, E., Cevik, S., Bex, C., Lamesch, P., Sikorski, R. S., Vandenhaute, J., Zoghbi, H. Y., Smolyar, A., Bosak, S., Sequerra, R., Doucette-Stamm, L., Cusick, M. E., Hill, D. E., Roth, F. P., and Vidal, M. A proteome-scale map of the human interactome network. Submitted.

Gruver, A. M., Miller, K. A., Smiraldo, P. G., Kaliyaperumal, S., Balder, R., Stiles, K. M., Albala, J. S., and Pittman, D. L. The ATPase motif in Rad51D is required for DNA interstarand crosslink repair and interaction with Rad51C, Submitted.

Coleman, M. A, Camarero, J. A., Beernink, P. B., and Albala, J. S. Applications of Functional Protein Microarrays: Current Progress and Future Challenges. Floriano, P. (ed)., Humana Press, New York., in press.

Albala, J. S., Hitting the Spot: The promise of protein microarrays. In: Micro/Nano Genomics and Proteomics, Kluwer Press, in press.

Miller, K. A., Hinz, J. M., Thompson, L. H., and Albala, J. S. (2005). Rad51B is localized to the nucleus independent of Rad51C and BRCA2. Mutagenesis, 20(1): 57-63.

Rual, J.-F., Hirozane-Kishikawa,T., Hao, T., Bertin, T., Li, S., Dricot, A., Li, N., Rosenberg, J., Lamesch, P., Vidalain, P-O., Clingingsmith, T. R., Hartley, J. L., Esposito, D.,Cheo, D., Moore, T., Simmons, B., Sequerra, R., Bosak, S., Doucette-Stamm, L., Le Peuch, D., Vandenhaute, J., Cusick,  M. E., Albala, J. S., Hill, D. E. and Vidal, M. Human ORFeome Version 1.1: a Platform for Reverse Proteomics. Genome Res. 14(10B): 2128-35.

de Carvalho-Kavanagh, M. G. and Albala, J. S., Building biochips: a protein production pipeline, In  "Microarrays and Combinatorial Techniques: Design, Fabrication and Analysis II", Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 5328, June 2004.

Rao, R. S., Visuri, S. R., McBride, M. T., Albala, J. S., Matthews, D. L., and Coleman, M. A. (2004).

A comparison of multiplexed techniques for comparison of bacterial and viral proteins. J. Proteome Res. 3: 736-42.

Gilbert, M., Edwards, T. C., and Albala, J. S., Protein expression arrays for proteomics. In: "Protein Arrays: Methods in Molecular Biology," Fung, E. (ed)., Humana Press, New York. April 2004.

Miller, K. A., Sawicka, D., Barsky, D., and Albala, J. S., Domain mapping of the RAD51 paralog protein

complexes. Nucl. Acids Res., 32 (1): 169-78.

Coleman, M. A., Miller, K. A., Beernink, P., Yoshikawa, D. W., and Albala, J.S. Identification of chromatin-related protein interactions using protein arrays. Proteomics, 3 (11): 2101-7.

Gilbert, M. Edwards, T. C., Prange, C., Malfatti, M., McConnell, I. R., and Albala, J. S.

Miniaturized Protein Production for Proteomics, In "Protein Arrays, Biochips, and Proteomics: The Next Phase of Genomic Discovery", Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York, August 2003: 203-216.

Edwards, T. C., Marsh, A., Sanders, C., Albala, J. S., and Prange, C. K. (2003). Automated Construction of an Open Reading Frame Library for Sinorhizobium meliloti.  J. Laboratory Automation, 8 (3): 44-9.

Albala, J. S. Chips to Hits 2001: An Array of Parallel Technologies Converge. (2002). Expert Rev Mol Diagn.  2(1):13-5.

Wiese, C., Collins, D. W., Albala, J. S., Thompson, L. H., Kronenberg, A., and Schild, D. (2002). Interactions involving the Rad51 paralogs Rad51C and XRCC3 in human cells. Nucleic Acids Res. 30(4):1001-8.

Gilbert, M. and Albala, J. S. (2002). Accelarating code to function: sizing up the protein production line. Curr. Opin Chem Biol. 6(1):102-5.

Miller, K. A., Yoshikawa, D. M., McConnell, I. M., Clark, R., Schild, D., and Albala, J. S. (2002). RAD51C interacts with RAD51B and is central to a larger protein complex in vivo exclusive of RAD51. J Biol Chem. 277(10): 8406-11.

Sigurdsson, S., Van Komen, S., Bussen, W., Schild,  D., Albala, J. S., and Sung, P. (2001). Mediator function of the human Rad51B-Rad51C complex in Rad51/RPA-catalyzed DNA strand exchange. Genes & Dev. 15: 3308-3318.

Albala, J. S. (2001). Array-based proteomics: The Latest Chip Challenge. Expert Reviews in Molecular Diagnostics 1 (2): 145-152.

Albala, J. S. (2001). Beyond our genome: proteomics in molecular diagnostics. Expert Reviews in Molecular Diagnostics 1 (3): 243-4.

Albala, J. S., McConnell, IR, Franke, K., Rubinfeld, B., Davies, A., and Clark, R. High-Throughput Expression and Purification of the Human Proteome. (2000). Journal of Cellular  Biochemistry 80: 187-191.

Takata, M., Sasaki, M. S., Sonoda, E., Fukushima, T., Morrison, C., Albala,  J.S., Swagemakeers S. M., Kanaar, R., Thompson,  L. H.,and Takeda, S. (2000) The rad51 paralog RAD51B promotes homologous recombinational repair. Mol. Cell Biol. 20 (17): 6476-82.

Albala, J. S. and Humphrey-Smith, I. (1999) Molecular Applications in Proteomics. Current Opinion in Molecular Therapeutics.1: 680-684.

Dosanjh, M. K., Collins, D. W., Fan, W., Lennon, G. G., Albala, J. S., Shen, Z., and David Schild. (1998). Isolation and characterization of RAD51C, a new human member of the RAD51 family of related genes, including two-hybrid interactions. Nucleic Acids Research 26(5): 1179-1184.

Albala, J. S., Thelen, M. P., Prange, C., Fan, W., Christensen, M., Thompson, L. H., and Lennon, G. G. (1997). Identification of a Novel Human RAD51 Homolog, RAD51B. Genomics 46(3): 476-479.

Lui, N., Lamberdin, J. E., Tucker, J. D., Zhou, Zi-Q., Walter, C. A., Albala, J. S., Busch, D. B., and Thompson, L. H. (1997). The human XRCC9  gene corrects chromosomal instability and mutagen sensitivities in CHO UV40 cells. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 94: 9232-9237.

Kalcheva, N., Albala, J. S., O'Guin, K., Rubino, H., Garner, C. C., and Shafit-Zagardo, B. (1995). Genomic structure of human microtubule-associated protein-2 (MAP-2) and characterization of additional MAP-2 isoforms. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 92: 10894-10898.

Albala, J. S., Kress, Y., Weidenheim, K., Shum, W.-K., Yen, S.-H., and Shafit-Zagardo, B.  (1995). Human microtubule-associated protein-2c (MAP-2c) localizes to dendrites and axons in fetal spinal motor neurons. J. Neurochem. 64: 2480-2490.

Kalcheva, N., Albala, J. S., Binder, L. I., and Shafit-Zagardo, B. (1994). Localization of specific epitopes on human microtubule-associated protein 2. J. Neurochem. 63: 2336-2341.

Albala, J. S., Kalcheva, N., and Shafit-Zagardo, B. (1994). Corrigendum: Characterization of the transcripts encoding two isoforms of human microtubule-associated protein-2 (MAP-2). Gene 149: 395-6.

Albala, J. S., Kalcheva, N., and Shafit-Zagardo, B. (1993). Characterization of the (MAP-2). Gene 136: 377-8.

Baly, D. L., Schneiderman, J. S., and Garcia, A. L. (1990). Effect of manganese deficiency on insulin binding, glucose transport and metabolism. J. Nutr.120: 1075-9.

Garcia, A. L., Schneiderman, J. S., and Baly, D. L. (1990). Interleukin-1 stimulates glucose transport in isolated rat adipose cells. FEBS Letts. 269 (2): 421-4.

Kaziba, E., Flauncbaum, L., Fitzpatrick, J. C., Schneiderman, J. S., and Fisher, H. (1988). Simultaneous determination of histidine-containing depeptides, methyhistamine and histadine by high performance liquid chromatography. J. Chroma. 432: 315-20.

Dr. Joanna S. Albala is an Associate Adjunct Professor in the Department of Otolaryngology at the UC Davis School of Medicine. She is developing a research program in the study of Head and Neck Cancer examining the effect of vitamins D and A for chemoprevention. Dr. Albala recently joined the faculty at the UC Davis School of Medicine after her seven year tenure as a Senior Biomedical Scientist in the Biology and Biotechnology Research Program at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Dr. Albala has extensive training in molecular and cellular biology including a strong background in protein biochemistry and genomics. Dr. Albala initially joined the Biology and Biotechnology Program as a Postdoctoral Fellow developing whole chromosome cDNA selection. Subsequently, she became part of a larger programmatic effort to examine the role of DNA repair in genetic susceptibility to disease. During the course of selecting novel DNA repair genes for recombinant protein expression, she isolated a novel repair gene, Rad51B. Her research in this area is ongoing to understand the role of homologous recombination and DNA repair in initiation and progression of Head and Neck Cancer.

Dr. Albala has received a National Cancer Institute Shannon Award, a California Breast Cancer Research Program New Investigator Award, UC Discovery awards, and an NIH R01 to examine the function of Rad51B and its potential role in breast cancer. In her laboratory with the BBR program, Dr. Albala developed several technologies related to proteomics. These include an automatable, high-throughput protein production system and array-based functional assays. Dr. Albala has several efforts underway to incorporate her expertise in both proteomics and DNA repair to further our understanding of the molecular mechanisms of cancer-related disease, diagnosis and prevention.

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