David Weaver, D.D.S., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Office: 419.383.3402
Laboratory: 419.383.3402
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EDUCATION
B.S., Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, 1979
D.D.S., Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 1984
Ph.D., Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, 1994
POSTGRADUATE TRAINING
- Medical College of Ohio, Department of Dentistry, Toledo, OH 1984-1985
- Medical College of Ohio, Department of Medicine, Toledo, OH 1995-2002
- Karolinska Institutet, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Stockholm, Sweden, 1999
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
- 1995-2002: Senior Research Fellow, Department of Medicine, Medical College of Ohio, Toledo, OH
- 1999: Personal Scholarship Recipient, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- 2002-2017: Director, Genomics Core Laboratory, Program in Bioinformatics and Proteomics/Genomics, University of Toledo (formerly the Medical University of Ohio, formerly the Medical College of Ohio), Toledo, OH
- 2002-2004: Assistant Professor (Research Track), Department of Physiology & Molecular Medicine, Medical College of Ohio, Toledo, OH
- 2004-2005: Assistant Professor (Research Track), Department of Physiology & Cardiovascular Genomics (formerly Dept. of Physiology & Molecular Medicine), Medical College of Ohio, Toledo, OHÂ
- 2005-2006: Assistant Professor (Research Track), Department of Physiology & Cardiovascular Genomics, Medical University of Ohio (formerly Medical College of Ohio), Toledo, OH
- 2006-2007: Assistant Professor (Research Track), Department of Physiology, Pharmacology, Metabolism & Cardiovascular Science (formerly Department of Physiology & Cardiovascular Genomics), Medical University of Ohio, Toledo, OH
- 2007-2008: Assistant Professor (Research Track), Department of Physiology, Pharmacology, Metabolism & Cardiovascular Science, University of Toledo (formerly Medical University of Ohio), Toledo, OH
- 2008-2010: Assistant Professor (Research Track), Department of Public Health and Homeland Security, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH
- 2010-2013: Assistant Professor (Research Track), Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine (formerly Dept. of Public Health and Homeland Security), University of Toledo, Toledo, OH
- 2013-present: Assistant Professor (Research Track), Department of Surgery, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH
- 2013-present: Director, Flow Cytometry Core Laboratory, Department of Surgery, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH
RESEARCH INTEREST
- Flow cytometry usage in various research projects for determination of specific cell types. Sorting of human cells, bacteria, and algae/diatoms for experimentation.
- Genomics, global gene expression, quantitative gene expression, carcinogenesis and mutagenesis
PUBLICATIONS (SELECTED)
- Weaver, D.A., Hei, T.K., Hukku, B., McRaven, J.A. and Willey, J.C., Cytogenetic and molecular genetic analysis of tumorigenic human bronchial epithelial cells induced by radon alpha particles, Carcinogenesis 18(6), 1251-1257, 1997.
- Willey, J.C., Crawford, E.L., Jackson, C.M., Weaver, D.A., Hoban, J.C., Khuder, S.A. and DeMuth, J.P., Expression measurement of many genes simultaneously by quantitative RT-PCR using standardized mixtures of competitive templates, Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol 19(1), 6-17, 1998.
- DeMuth, J.P., Jackson, C.M., Weaver, D.A., Crawford, E.L., Durzinsky, D.S., Durham, S.J., Zaher, A., Phillips, E.R., Khuder, S.A. and Willey, J.C., The gene expression index c-myc x E2F-1/p21 is highly predictive of malignant phenotype in human bronchial epithelial cells, Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol 19(1), 18-24, 1998.
- Weaver, D.A., Hei, T.K., Hukku, B., DeMuth, J.P., Crawford, E.L., McRaven, J.A., Girgis, S. and Willey, J.C., Localization of tumor suppressor gene candidates by cytogenetic and short tandem repeat analyses in tumorigenic human bronchial epithelial cell, Carcinogenesis 21(2), 205-211, 2000.
- Crawford, E.L., Peter, G.J, Noordhuis, P., Rots, M.G., Vondracek, M., Grafström, R.C., Lieuallen, K., Lennon, G., Zahorchak, R.J., Georgeson, M.J., Wali, A., Lechner, J.F., Fan, P.S., Kahaleh, M.B., Khuder, S.A., Warner, K.A., Weaver, D.A., and Willey, J.C., Reproducible gene expression measurement among multiple laboratories obtained in a blinded study using standardized RT (StaRT)-PCR, Mol Diagn 6(4), 217-225, 2001.
- Vondracek, M., Weaver, D.A., Sarang, Z., Hedberg, J.J., Willey, J.C., Wärngård, L. and Grafström, R.C., Transcript profiling of enzymes involved in detoxification of xenobiotics and reactive oxygen in human and normal simian virus 40 T antigen-immortalized oral keratinocytes, Int J Cancer 99(6), 776-778., 2002.
- Weaver, D.A., Crawford, E.L., Warner, K.A., Elkhairi, F., Khuder, S.A. and Willey, J.C., ABCC5, ERCC2, XPA, and XRCC1 transcript abundance levels correlate with cisplatin chemoresistance in non-small cell lung cancer cell lines, Molecular Cancer 4(1):18, 2005.
- Weaver, D.A., Nestor-Kalinoski, A.L., Craig, K., Gorris, M., Parikh, T., Mabry, H., and Allison, D.C.  Corrections for mRNA extraction and sample normalization errors find increased mRNA levels may compensate for cancer haplo-insufficiency, Genes Chromosomes Cancer 53, 194-210, 2014.
- Wu, X., Ren, G., Gunning III, W.T., Weaver, D.A.,Kalinoski, A.L., Kuder, S.A., Huntley, J.F. FmvB: a Francisella tularensismagnesium-responsive outer membrane protein that plays a role in virulence, PLoS One, 11(8): 2016.
- Weaver, D.A., Gopalakrishman, G., Joe, B., Large-scale transcriptome analysis, in Methods Molecular Biology, Hypertension Vol. 1527, (eds) R.M. Touyz and E.L. Schiffrin, Springer, New York, 1-26, 2017.