John Philip Kanki

Affiliation: DFCI
Position: Investigator; Zebrafish Project Supervisor
Address: 44 Binney Street, Boston MA 02115, Mayer 630
Email: John_Kanki@dfci.harvard.edu
Phone: (617) 632-4476 Fax: (617) 632-3546

Education:

B.A., Cum Laude, 1979. Department of Psychology. Laboratories of Dr. H.M. Sinnamon and Dr. D.B. Adams. Wesleyan University. Middletown, Connecticut.

Ph.D., Biology, 1990. Department of Biology. Laboratory of Dr. J.W. Newport. University of California, San Diego. La Jolla, California.

Investigator; Zebrafish Project Supervisor, 1999-present. Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts.

Publications:

1. Kanki, John P., and D.B. Adams, 1978 Ventrobasal Thalamus Necessary for Visually-Released Defensive Boxing of Rat. Physiology and Behavior 12: 7-12.
2. Kanki, John P., T.L. Martin, and H.M. Sinnamon, 1983 Activity of Neurons in the Anteromedial Cortex during Rewarding Brain Stimulation, Saccharine Consumption, and Orienting Behavior. Behavioral Brain Research 8: 69-84.
3. Newport, J.W., T. Spann, J. Kanki, and D. Forbes, 1985 The Role of Mitotic Factors in Regulating the Timing of the Midblastula Transition in Xenopus Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology Vol. L: 651-656.
4. Freeman, R.S., K.M. Pickham, J.P. Kanki, B.A. Lee, S.V. Pena, and D.J. Donoghue, 1989 The Xenopus homolog of the mos proto-oncogene transforms mammalian fibroblasts and induces maturation of Xenopus oocytes. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 86: 5805-5809.
5. Freeman, R.S., J.P. Kanki, S.M. Ballantyne, K.S. Pickham, and D.J. Donoghue, 1990 Effects of the v-mos oncogene on Xenopus development: Meiotic induction in oocytes and mitotic arrest in cleaving embryos. J. Cell Biol. 111: 533-542.
6. Kanki, John P., and J.W. Newport, 1991 The Cell Cycle Dependence of Protein Synthesis during Xenopus laevis Development. Dev. Bio. 146: 198-213.
7. Kanki, John P., and J.W. Newport, 1991 The Cell Cycle Dependence of the Secretory Pathway in Developing Xenopus laevis. Dev. Bio. 146: 214-227.
8. Kanki, John P., and D.J. Donoghue, 1991 Progression from meiosis I to meiosis II in Xenopus oocytes requires de novo translation of the mosxe protooncogene. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 88: 5794-5798.
9. Kanki, John P., S. Chang, and J.Y. Kuwada, 1994 The Molecular Cloning and Characterization of Potential Chick DM-GRASP Homologs in Zebrafish and Mouse. Journal of Neurobiology 25 (7): 831-845.
10. Kanki, John P., and R.K. Ho, 1997 The Development of the Posterior Body in Zebrafish. Development 124: 881-893.
11. Ho, Robert K., J.P. Kanki, and V.E. Prince, 1998 Patterning of the Zebrafish Embryo Along the Anteroposterior Axis. Cell Lineage and Fate Determination, Academic Press, ed. S.A. Moody.
12. Warren, J.T., A. Chandresekhar, J.P. Kanki, R. Rangarajan and J.Y. Kuwada, 1999 Molecular Cloning and Expression Analysis of Zebrafish TAG-1. Mechanisms of Development, 80 (2): 197-201.
13. Kanki, John P., and J.Y. Kuwada, 2000 Growth cones utilize both widespread and local directional cues in the zebrafish brain. Dev. Biol. 219(2): 364-372.
14. Bennett, C.M., J.P. Kanki, J. Rhodes, B.H. Paw, M.W. Kiernan, D.M. Langenau, A. Delahaye, T.X. Liu, L.I. Zon, M.D. Fleming and A.T. Look. 2001 Myelopoiesis in the Zebrafish, Danio rerio. Blood. 98(3): 643-651.
15. Hsu, K., Kanki, J.P., and A. T. Look, 2001 Zebrafish Myelopoiesis and Blood Cell Development. Current Opinions in Hematology. In Press.