Forkhead FOXO Transcription Factors in Development and Disease

Dr. Saghi Ghaffari is a Physician Scientist and Professor at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS). Her research is on mechanisms implicated in blood production and disorders of blood. Her work has been partly focused on FOXO transcription factors and their contributions to the healthy blood formation. She has been trained in Medicine in Paris, France, obtained her PhD in Vancouver, Canada and further training at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research at MIT in Cambridge, USA. She has been at the ISMMS since 2003.

1. DAF-16: FOXO in the Context of C. elegans Heidi A. Tissenbaum 2. Stem Cells Seen Through the FOXO Lens: An Evolving Paradigm Raymond Liang and Saghi Ghaffari 3. FOXOs Maintaining the Equilibrium for Better or for Worse Sabina van Doeselaar and Boudewijn M.T. Burgering 4. FOXO in Neural Cells and Diseases of the Nervous System Evan E. Santo and Jihye Paik 5. Regulation of Hepatic Glucose Metabolism by FOXO Proteins, an Integrated Approach Terry G. Unterman 6. The Role of FOXOs in Bone Health and Disease Ha-Neui Kim, Srividhya Iyer, Rebecca Ring and Maria Almeida 7. Regulation of FOXO Factors in Mammalian Cells Abigail K. Brown and Ashley E. Webb 8. FOXO3 and Exceptional Longevity: Insights From Hydra to Humans Philip M.C. Davy, Richard C. Allsopp, Timothy A. Donlon, Brian J. Morris, D. Craig Willcox and Bradley J. Willcox