Positions
- Assistant Professor
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Pediatrics
Hem-Onc Cell & Gene Therapy
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX, US
- Assistant Professor
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Molecular and Cellular Biology
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas, United States
- Associate Professor
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Pediatrics
Hematology-Oncology
Baylor College of Medicine
HOUSTON, Texas, United States
- Staff Scientist
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Immunology
St Jude Children's Research Hospital
Memphis, Tennessee, United States
Addresses
- Texas Children's Hospital (Office)
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1102 Bates Ave
Feigin Tower Suite 1030.08
Houston, TX, 77030
United States
bouchier@bcm.edu
Education
- BA from Trinity College Dublin
- 06/1998 - Dublin, Ireland
- PhD from Trinity College Dublin
- 06/2002 - Dublin, Ireland
- Postdoctoral Fellowship at LaJolla Institute of Allergy and Immunology
- 01/2006 - San Diego, California, United States
- Molecular mechanisms of apoptosis
- Postdoctoral Fellowship at St Jude Children's Research Hospital
- 01/2011 - Memphis, Tennessee, United States
- Molecular mechanisms of apoptosis
Professional Statement
The focus of my lab is to determine how members of the caspase family of proteases function in apoptosis and non-apoptotic processes to protect from disease. Specifically, we develop and use cutting edge live cell imaging-based methodologies to interrogate activation of distinct caspases in normal and transformed cells. Our research program is currently focused on two major areas: (1) caspase regulation in cancer; and (2) caspase activation during inflammation. The rationale for these investigations is that caspases protect from cancer and other diseases, by engaging diverse cellular mechanisms in addition to cell death, such as cell division, inflammation, and DNA repair. The ultimate goal is to understand how these caspase pathways can be manipulated for preventative and therapeutic purposes.
Selected Publications
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Beatriz E Bolívar, Alexandra N Brown-Suedel, Brittany A Rohrman, Chloé I Charendoff, Vanda Yazdani, John D Belcher , Gregory M Vercellotti , Jonathan M Flanagan, Lisa Bouchier-Hayes. " Noncanonical Roles of Caspase-4 and Caspase-5 in Heme-Driven IL-1β Release and Cell Death " J Immunol .. 2021 Apr 15; 206 (8) : 1878-1889.
Pubmed PMID: 33741688. -
Ando K, Parsons MJ, Shah RB, Charendoff CI, Paris SL, Liu PH, Fassio SR, Rohrman BA, Thompson R, Oberst A, Sidi S, Bouchier-Hayes L.. " NPM1 directs PIDDosome-dependent caspase-2 activation in the nucleolus. " J Cell Biol.. 2017 ; 216 : 1795-1810.
Pubmed PMID: 28432080. -
Sanders MG, Parsons MJ, Howard AG, Liu J, Fassio SR, Martinez JA, Bouchier-Hayes L. " Single-cell imaging of inflammatory caspase dimerization reveals differential recruitment to inflammasomes. " Cell Death Dis. 2015 Jul 9; 6 : e1813.
Pubmed PMID: 26158519. -
Ando M, Hoyos V, Yagyu S, Tao W, Ramos CA, Dotti G, Brenner MK, Bouchier-Hayes L.. " Bortezomib sensitizes non-small cell lung cancer to mesenchymal stromal cell-delivered inducible caspase-9-mediated cytotoxicity. " Cancer Gene Ther. 2014 Nov ; 21 (11) : 472-82.
Pubmed PMID: 25323693.
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