Entry Year: 1996
Graduation Year: 2005
Currently: Resident, Internal Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine
Email Address: Daniel.Santillano@uchsc.edu
Undergraduate: University of Texas at San Antonio
Laboratory: Dr. Rajesh Miranda, Human Anatomy and Medical Neurobiology
Thesis: "Determinants of cerebral cortical progenitor growth and differentiation"

Abstracts and Presentations:

• Santillano, D, Prock, TL and Miranda, RC. "Ethanol eliminates cell fate heterogeneity of multipotent cortical precursors in primary culture." Society For Neuroscience, 2003.

Publications:

• Cheema, ZF, Santillano, D, Wade, SB, Newman, JM and Miranda, RC. "The extracellular matrix, p53 and estrogen compete to regulate cell-surface Fas/Apo-1 suicide receptor expression in proliferating embryonic cerebral cortical precursors, and reciprocally, Fas-ligand modifies estrogen control of cell-cycle proteins." BMC Neurosci 5:11, 2004.
• Tang, LS, Santillano, DR, Wlodarczyk, BJ, Miranda, RC and Finnell, RH. "Developmental consequences of abnormal folate transport during murine heart morphogenesis." Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol 70:449-58, 2004.
• Tang, LS, Wlodarczyk, BJ, Santillano, DR, Miranda, RC and Finnell, RH. "Role of Folbp1 in the regional regulation of apoptosis and proliferation in the developing neural tube and craniofacies." Am J Med Genet C Semin Med Genet 135:48-58, 2005.
• Santillano, DR, Kumar, LK, Prock, TL, Camarillo, C, Tingling, J and Miranda, RC. "Ethanol induces cell-cycle activity and reduces stem cell heterogeneity in cerebral cortical neuroepithelial precursors." Biomed Central: Neuroscience, in press.

Awards:

• NIH Individual Research Training Grant NIGMS F31 GM069091, "Neuronal precursor regulation during corticogenesis".