Post-Doctoral Fellow with Dr. Rapraeger and Dr. Alexander Pathology/LabMedicine and Oncology University of Wisconsin - Madison dbeauvais@wisc.edu Graduate Education Dr. Alan Rapraeger, Advisor at UW Madison 1999-2005

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Deanna is doing a split post-doctoral position with Dr. Alan Rapraeger and Dr. Caroline Alexander, and is part of the Susan G. Komen Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship 2007-2010.

Cell signaling roles of syndecans in cell adhesion and motility.

Recent Publications: Articles on PubMed

• Beauvais DM, Ell BJ, McWhorter AR, and Rapraeger AC. (2008). Syndecan-1 regulates Éøv3 and Éøv5 integrin activation during angiogenesis and is blocked by synstatin. J Exp Med. In press.
  
  
• McQuade KJ*, Beauvais DM*, Burbach BJ, and Rapraeger AC. (2006). Syndecan-1 regulates ±v3û45 integrin activity in B82L fibroblasts. J Cell Sci. 119:2445-2456. (* Co-first authors) PDF PMID 16720645
   
  
• Beauvais DM, Burbach BJ, and Rapraeger AC. (2004). Syndecan-1 ectodomain regulates anb3 integrin activity in human mammary carcinoma cells. J Cell Biol. 167:171-181. PDF PMID 15479743
  
  
• Beauvais DM and Rapraeger AC. (2004). Syndecans in tumor cell adhesion and signaling.  Reprod Biol Endocrinol. 2:3-15. PDF PMID 14711376
  
  
• Beauvais DM and Rapraeger AC. (2003). Syndecan-1 mediated cell spreading requires signaling by avb3 integrins in human breast carcinoma cells. Exp Cell Res. 286:219-232. PDF PMID 12749851