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Michael A. Mackey, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Biomedical Engineering

2318, Seamans Center
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242
Ph. (319) 335 6058
Fax. (319) 335 5631
michael-mackey@uiowa.edu

Related Links
Detailed Personal webpage
Research @ UIBME

Research Interests
  • Nonequilibirum thermodynamic theory of living systems
  • Characterization of the mathematical nature of intracellular motion

Education
  • A.B. 1983 in biophysics, University of California, Berkeley
  • Ph.D. 1988 in biophysics, University of California, Berkeley and San Francisco Graduate Division

Professional activities
  • 1982 - 1983: President's Research Fellow, University of California, Berkeley
  • 1983 - 1987: Research Assistantship, Radiation Oncology Lab, University of California, San Francisco, CA
  • 1987 - 1989: Research Associate, Washington University School of Medicine, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Radiation Oncology Center, Section of Cancer Biology, St. Louis, MO
  • 1989 - 1991: Instructor, Washington University School of Medicine, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Radiation Oncology Center, Section of Cancer Biology, St. Louis, MO
  • 1992 - 2000: Assistant Professor, Washington University School of Medicine, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Radiation Oncology Center, Section of Cancer Biology, St. Louis, MO
  • 1998 - present: Associated Scientist, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (Italian Institute of Nuclear Physics)
  • 2000 - present: Associate Professor, Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Radiology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa

Selected Publications
  • Ahmad IM, Aykin-Burns N, Sim JE, Walsh SA, Higashikubo R, Buettner GR, Venkataraman S, Mackey MA, Flanagan S, Oberley LW, and Spitz DR: Mitochondrial O2•- and H2O2 Mediate Glucose Deprivation-Induced Cytotoxicity and Oxidative Stress in Human Cancer Cells. J Biol Chem 280, 4254-4262, 2005.
  • Erenpreisa J, Kalejs M, Ianzini F, Kosmacek EA, Mackey MA, Emzinsh D, Cragg, MS, Ivanov A, and Illidge TM: Segregation of genomes in polyploid tumor cells following mitotic catastrophe. Cell Biol Int 29, 1005-1011, 2005.
  • Yang F, Mackey MA, Ianzini F, Gallardo G, and Sonka M: From 2D to 3D: Cell segmentation, tracking, and mitosis detection using temporal context. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3749, 302-309, 2005.
  • Ianzini F, Bertoldo A, Kosmacek EA, Phillips SL and Mackey MA: Lack of p53 Function Promotes Radiation-Induced Mitotic Catastrophe in Mouse Embryonic Fibroblast Cells. Cancer Cell Int 6, 11, 2006.
  • Coskun H, Li Y, and Mackey MA: Amoeboid cell motility: “A model and inverse problem, with an application to live cell imaging data,” J Theor Biol, 244, 160-179 , 2007.

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