Residence Vancouver, Canada Citizenship Canadian | Nationality Canadian Name Michael Gold | |
Born August 30, 1956 (age 67)
United States ( 1956-08-30 ) Fields Biology
Immunology
Cell Biology Institutions University of British Columbia Alma mater Michigan State University
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, San Francisco | ||
Michael R. Gold, (born August 30, 1956 in New York City, USA) is a Canadian immunologist and cell biologist, head of Head, UBC Department of Microbiology and Immunology, at the University of British Columbia July 2009. He is known for his discovery of how B-cell receptor stimulates Tyrosine phosphorylation and work in the signaling cascade of B-cell receptor.
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Born and raised in New York City, New York, USA in 1956. He attended the John Bowne High School in Flushing, New York. and then Michigan State University. He was a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley from 1978-1984, under the supervision of Robert I. Mishell. The goal of his Ph.D. project was to characterize biochemically a receptor present on macrophages, that recognize bacterial peptidoglycan. He then entered a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco (1985-1991) working on B-cell signalling with Anthony DeFranco, followed by a position as research associate in Ruedi Aebersold’s lab at the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle, Washington, (1991-1993)
His work led to many important findings, emphasizing the importance of how antigen receptors on the surface of B-cells might trigger the adaptive immunity upon recognizing their cognate antigens
Over a decade, his laboratory has been intensely focusing on how the roles of Rap GTPases in mediating cell mobility, cell migration, tumor motility and metastasis. He is interested in how changes in cytoskeletal structure and function by Rap may affect B-cell receptor activation and signalling cascade. Gold’s publications have been cited more than 6,200 times with the [h-index] of 42.
He is a faculty member of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of British Columbia, He has been Head of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology since July 2009.