Lee Montagna, Ph.D.
Clinical Instructor
Department of Psychiatry
New York University School of Medicine
(845)398-5438
montagna@nki.rfmh.org

Education

  • B.S. Clark University
  • Ph.D. State University of New York at Stony Brook, School of Medicine

Postdoctoral Training

  • Center for Dementia Research, Nathan Kline Institute

Awards

  • 1989 Phi Beta Kappa
  • 1990 Cum laude

Research Interests

My research interests include:

1) Processing of APP in Alzheimer's disease;

2) Endocytic abnormalities in Alzheimer's disease;

3) AD-related MPR overexpression and altered lysosomal hydrolase redistribution.

Selected Publications

Montagna LG, Ivanov MI, Bliska JB. Identification of residues in the N-terminal domain of the Yersinia tyrosine phosphatase that are critical for substrate recognition. J Biol Chem. 2001 Feb 16;276(7):5005-5011.

Montagna, LG. Identification and Characterization of a substrate-interaction domain in the N-terminus of the Yersinia tyrosine phosphatase YopH (Dissertation). Stony Brook, New York: SUNY at Stony Brook, 2000, 254p.

Black DS, Montagna LG, Zitsmann S, Bliska JB. Identification of an amino-terminal substrate-binding domain in the Yersinia tyrosine phosphatase that is required for efficient recognition of focal adhesion targets. Mol Microbiol. 1998 Sep;29(5):1263-74.

99th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, Chicago. "The isolation and characterization of point mutations within the substrate-binding domain of the Yersinia pseudotuberculosis PTPase YopH." Poster # D/B245