Barbara Porton, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor
Department of Psychiatry
New York University School of Medicine
(845)398-2070
bporton@nki.rfmh.org

Education

  • B.A. Vassar College, New York
  • Ph.D. Columbia University, New York (Molecular Biology and Immunology)

Postdoctoral Training

  • Visiting Scientist, Stanford University, Laboratory of Developmental and Molecular Neurobiology, Stanford, CA
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, The Rockefeller University, Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience, New York

Awards

  • 1997-1999 Scottish Rite Schizophrenia Research Grant Award
  • 1998-2002 Young Investigator Award - NARSAD
  • 2003-2005 Stanley Foundation Award

Selected Publications

Porton, B., Ferreira, A., DeLisi, L.E., & Kao, H.-T. (2003). A rare polymorphism affects a MAP kinase site in synapsin III: Possible relationship to schizophrenia. Biological Psychiatry, in press.

Porton B, Kao HT. (2003) Effect of protein phosphorylation on neurite outgrowth in cultured embryonic Xenopus spinal neurons. Neurosignals. 12:45-52.

 Pieribone V.A., Porton, B., Rendon, B.E., Greengard ,P., & Kao H-.T. (2002). Expression of synapsin III in nerve terminals and neurogenic regions of the adult brain. Journal of Comparative Neurology 454:105-114.

Kao, H.-T., Song, H.-j., Porton, B., Ming, G.-l., Abraham, M., Czernik, A.J., Pieribone, V.A., Poo, M.-m., & Greengard, P. (2002). A PKA-dependent molecular switch regulates neurite outgrowth. Nature Neuroscience 5: 431-437.

Kao, H.-T., Porton, B., Hilfiker, S., Stefani, G., Pieribone, V.A., DeSalle, R. & Greengard, P. (1999). Molecular evolution of the synapsin gene family. Journal of Experimental Zoology 285: 360-77.

Porton, B., Kao, H.-T. & Greengard, P. (1999). Characterization of transcripts from the synapsin III gene locus. Journal of Neurochemistry 73:2266-71.

Porton, B., Kao, H.-T., & Greengard, P. (1999). Cloning of cDNAs encoding human synapsins IIa and IIb. DNA Sequence 10: 49-54.

Porton*, B., Kao*, H.-T., Czernik, A.J., Feng, J., Yiu, G., Häring, M., Benfenati, F. & Greengard, P. (1998). A third member of the synapsin gene family. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA 95: 4667-4672 [* equal contributors].

Kao, H.-T., Ghafoori, S.R., Porton, B., Wong, D.L., & Ciaranello, R.D. (1996). Brain specific proteins binding to the 3' UTR of the 5-HT2C receptor mRNA. Molecular Brain Research 43: 174-184.

Porton, B., Zaller, D.M., Lieberson, R., & Eckhardt, L.A. (1990). Immunoglobulin heavy-chain enhancer is required to maintain transfected g2a gene expression in a pre-B-cell line. Molecular and Cellular Biology 10: 1076-1083.

Yu, H., Porton, B., Shen, L., & Eckhardt, L.A. (1989). Role of the octamer motif in hybrid cell extinction of immunoglobulin gene expression: Extinction is dominant in a two enhancer system. Cell 58: 441-448.