NAME: Pedro Roda-Navarro
DEPT: System Cell Biology
ORGANIZATION: Max Planck Institute for Molecular Physiology
ADDRESS: Otto-Hahn-Str. 11. D-44227 Dortmund. Germany
TELEPHONE No: 49-231-133-2204
FAX No: 49-231-133-2299
E MAIL ADDRESS: rodanava@mpi-dortmund.mpg.de
TITLE: Doctor PhD

TOTAL GRANTS: -
TOTAL PUBLICATIONS: 15
MEMBERSHIPS ON EDITORIAL BOARDS: Frontiers in Bioscience

SUBJECT(S) OF RESEARCH: Natural Killer cell biology: The Natural Killer gene complex and the NK cell Immune synapse Cell signalling: Role of protein tyrosine phosphatases in signalling pathways.
DISCIPLINE(S): Genetics, Cellular Biology and Cell signaling
ORGAN SYSTEMS:-
TISSUES:-
CELL(S): primary NK cells and NK cell lines. Other cell lines
MOLECULE(S): KLRF1, 2B4, NKG2D, EGFR and PTPs
TECHNIQUE(S): Molecular Biology and Biochemistry techniques: PCR, RT-PCR, RACE, cloning, general Molecular Biology, Northern Blot, Southern Blot, Immunoprecipitation, Western Blot, Expression of proteins in prokaryotic systems and refolding, purification of proteins, isolation of lipid rafts lysate fractions. Cellular Biology and immunology: Immunofluorescence, Flow citometry analysis, ELISA, purification of peripheral blood cell populations, cultures of activated NK cells and cytotoxic assays, cell conjugates formation, GFP technology and confocal and time lapse microscopy