<p>Hematopoiesis is the process in which billions of blood cells are produced on a daily basis, and is vital for sustaining life. This process is tightly regulated by a dynamic balance between hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) ...

Posttranscriptional gene expression is controlled and coordinated by RNA binding proteins (RBPs), many of which recognize specific RNAs through cis-regulatory RNA elements. One of the most highly studied classes ...

Apoptosis is a form of programmed cellular "suicide" which is activated in response to a variety of pro-death stimuli. Apoptotic cell death is orderly and energy-dependent, and cellular constituents are packaged ...

Tissue homeostasis is controlled by the availability of growth factors, which sustain exogenous nutrient uptake and prevent apoptosis. Cancer cells, however, can express constitutively active oncogenic kinases such as BCR-Abl ...

Healthy cells require input from growth factor signaling pathways to maintain cell metabolism and survival. Growth factor deprivation induces a loss of glucose metabolism that contributes to cell death in this context, ...

Signaling pathways converge on the translation machinery and influence protein synthesis globally or specifically on certain classes of transcripts. The experiments described in this thesis focus on regulation of translation ...