Michael Cammer

Education
1992 Master of Fine Arts of Painting and Printmaking, Columbia University, New York, NY
1989 Master of Arts of Teaching, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI GPA 3.646
1988 Bachelor of Arts, Honors in Studio Art and cum laude, Brown University, Providence, RI

Exhibitions (Group Shows)
2007 Neointegrity, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY
2003 "elocutio, -o-nis", Universidad de Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia
2000-2001 RISD ON THE ROAD: A Juried Exhibit of Printmaking and Photography by RISD Alumni, traveled to: New Art Center, Newtonville, MA; The Art Association's ArtWest Gallery, Jackson, WY; New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts, New Orleans, LA; Woods-Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI; Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL; 600 Townsend Gallery, San Francisco, CA; and Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY
1999 Chiaruscuro, Smack Mellon Studios, Brooklyn, NY
1998 Transport, Alternative Space on Jay Street, New York, NY
1995-96 12 X 12: A Juried Exhibit of Small Works by RISD Alumni, traveled to: Woods Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI ; Roger Smith Gallery, New York, NY; and HBO Lobby, New York, NY
1991 Thesis Exhibition, Prentis Hall, Columbia University, New York, NY
1989 MAT Thesis Exhibition, North Main Street, Providence, RI
1988 Juried Show, Bell Gallery, Providence, RI

Employment
1992 – present Faculty (now Senior Associate), Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
1995 – present Director of Light Microscopy and Image Analysis, Analytical Imaging Facility, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
1992 – 1995 Training Director, Image Analysis Facility, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
1992 Teaching Assistant for Graduate Colloquium on Contemporary Art Criticism, Columbia University, New York, NY
1989 – 1991 Darkroom Technician, Department of Pathology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
1989 Instructor, Mixed Media, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
1989 Student teaching for MAT, Classical High School, Providence, RI and N. Attleboro Elementary School, N. Attleboro, MA


Scientific Authorships:
· Cammer, W., Zhang, H. and Cammer, M. (1993) Glial Cell Abnormalities in the CNS of the Carbonic Anhydrase II Deficient Mouse. J Neurolog. Sci. 118:1-9.
· Staecker, H., Cammer, M., Rubinstein, R. and Van De Water, T.R. (1994) A procedure for RT-PCR amplification of mRNAs on histological specimens. BioTechniques, 16:76-80.
· Novikoff, P.M., Cammer, M., Tao, L., Oda, H., Stockert, R.J., Wolkoff, A.W. and Satir, P. (1996) Three-dimensional organization of rat hepatocyte cytoskeleton: relation to the asialoglycoprotein endocytosis pathway. J. Cell Science, 109:21-32.
· Cammer, M., Wyckoff, J. and Segall, J.E. (1997) Computer-assisted analysis of single-cell behavior in Methods in Molecular Biology, Vol. 75: Basic Cell Culture Protocols, second edition (Pollard, J.W. and Walker, J.M., eds.) Humana Press, NJ, pp. 459-470.
· Satir, P., Novikoff, P.M., Cammer, M. and Wolkoff, A. (1997) Regulation of vesicular transport during receptor-mediated endocytosis in hepatocytes by cytoplasmic dynein. In Recent Advances in Microscopy of Cells, Tissues and Organs. Pp. 381-388.
· Rivera, J., Feldmesser, M., Cammer, M. and Casadevall, A. (1998) Organ-dependent variation of capsule thickness in Cryptococcal neoformans during experimental murine infection. Infection and Immunity. 66(10):5027-5030.
· Cammer, M. Illustrations in Whittemore, H. (1998) Your Future Self. New York: Thames and Hudson. ISBN 0-500-54223-6
· Wadler, S., Zhang, H., Cammer, M. and Hu, X.P. (1999) Quantification of Ribonucleotide Reductase Expression in Wild-Type and Hydroxyurea-Resistant Cell Lines Employing in Situ Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction and a Computerized Image Analysis System. Anal Biochem 267(1):24-29.
· Bailly, M., Macaluso, F., Cammer, M., Chan, A., Segall, J.E. and Condeelis, J.S. (1999) Relationships between Arp2/3 complex and the barbed ends of actin filaments at the leading edge of carcinoma cells after EGF-stimulation. J. Cell Biol., 145(2):331-345.
· Teitelbaum, R., M. Cammer, M., Maitland, M.L., Freitag, N.E., Condeelis, J., and Bloom, B.R. (1999) Mycobacterial infection of macrophages results in membrane-permeable phagosomes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 96(26):15190-15195.
· Bailly, M., Wyckoff, J., Bouzahzah, B., Hammerman, R., Sylvestre, V., Cammer, M., Pestell, R., and Segall, J.E. (2000) EGF receptor distributions during chemotactic responses. Mol Biol Cell 11(11):3873-3883.
· Rodriguez-Gabin, A.G., Cammer, M., Almazan, G., Charron, M., and Larocca, J.N. (2001) Role of rRAB22b, an oligodenrocyte protein, in regulation of transport of vesicles from trans Golgi to endocytic compartments. J Neuro Res 66:1149-1160.
· Cammer, M. (2002) Some uses of fluorescent Plexiglas in fluorescent microscopy. Microscopy Today, Sept.-Oct. 2002, p.36.
· Yeh, R.H., Yan, X., Cammer, M., Bresnick, A.R. and Lawrence DS. (2002) Real time visualization of protein kinase activity in living cells. J Biol Chem 277(13):11527-32.
· Cox, D., Berg, J. S., Cammer, M., Chinegwundoh, J. O., Cheney, R. E., and S. Greenberg. (2002) Myosin-X as a downstream effector of PI 3-kinase during phagocytosis. Nature Cell Biology 4(7):469-477.
· Shankar SL, O'Guin K, Cammer M, McMorris FA, Stitt TN, Basch RS, Varnum B and Shafit-Zagardo B (2003) The Growth Arrest Specific Gene product Gas6 Promotes the Survival of Human Oligodendrocytes through a PI 3-Kinase-Dependent Pathway. J Neurosci 23(10):4208-18.
· Neumeister, P, Pixley, F., Xie, H., Wu1, K., Ashton, A., Cammer, M., Chan, A., Symons, M., Stanley, E.R. and Pestell, R.G. (2003) Cyclin D1 governs adhesion and motility of macrophages. Mol Biol Cell 14(5):2005-15.
· Bonuccelli G, Sotgia F, Schubert W, Park DS, Frank PG, Woodman SE, Insabato L, Cammer M, Minetti C, Lisanti MP. (2003) Proteasome inhibitor (MG-132) treatment of mdx mice rescues the expression and membrane localization of dystrophin and dystrophin-associated proteins. Am J Pathol. 163(4):1663-75.
· Chen, J.-G., Huang Yang, C.P., Cammer, M. and Horwitz, S.B. (2003) Gene expression and mitotic exit induced by microtubule stabilizing drugs. Cancer Res 62(7):1935-8.
· Zhang X, Schwartz JC, Guo X, Bhatia S, Cao E, Lorenz, M, Cammer, M, Chen L, Zhang ZY, Edidin MA, Nathenson SG, Almo SC. (2004) Structural and functional analysis of the costimulatory receptor programmed death-1. Immunity. 20(3):337-47.
· Goswami, S., Sahai, E., Wyckoff, J., Cammer, M., Cox, D., Pixley, F., Stanley, E.R., Segall, J. and Condeelis, J. (2005) Macrophages promote the invasion of breast carcinoma cells via a CSF-1/EGF paracrine loop. Cancer Research, 65(12):5278-83 PMID: 15958574
· Cammer, M. (2005) “Toll House” Recipe Cookies Do Not Maintain Their Morphology Under Heat Stress Conditions. Annals of Improbable Research 11(4):16-19.
· Azios, NG, Krishnamoorthy, L, Harris, M., Cubano, LA, Cammer, M, Dharmawardhane, SF. (2007) Estrogen and Resveratrol Regulate Rac and Cdc42 Signaling to the Actin Cytoskeleton of Metastatic Breast Cancer Cells. Neoplasia. 9(2):147-158. PMID: 17356711
· El-Sibai M, Nalbant P, Pang H, Flinn RJ, Sarmiento C, Macaluso F, Cammer M, Condeelis JS, Hahn KM, Backer JM. (2007) Cdc42 is required for EGF-stimulated protrusion and motility in MTLn3 carcinoma cells. J Cell Sci. Oct 1;120(Pt 19):3465-74. Epub 2007 Sep 12. PMID: 17855387
· Chaskes S, Frases S, Cammer M, Gerfen G, Casadevall A. (2007) Growth and Pigment Production by Cryptococcus gattii, Cryptococcus neoformans, and Candida albicans from D-Tryptophan. J Clin Microbiol. 2007 Nov 7; [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 17989195
Invited Seminars
May 2002 “The Shared Microscope Resource: A Central Spot for Research” Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, FL
April 1995 “Life and Light from One to Four Dimensions: An Introduction to Confocal Microscopy.” Schneider Children’s Hospital, Long Island Jewish Medical Center, Hyde Park, NY
March 1994 “Life and Light from One to Four Dimensions: An Introduction to Confocal Microscopy.” NYSEM, NYU Dental College auditorium, NYC, NY.
October 1993 On Art and Biomedical Imaging, Brown University, Providence, RI.