Allen E Silverstone, PhD

2237A Weiskotten Hall
766 Irving Ave.
Syracuse, NY 13210

315 464-5440

Current Appointments

• Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
• Professor of Pharmacology

Hospital Campus

• Downtown

Education & Fellowships

• Postdoctoral Fellow: MIT Cancer Center, 1978, Leukemia & Immunology
• PhD: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1970

Research Abstract

My program explores how dioxins, PCBs, and estrogenic compounds affect the immune system at the cellular and molecular level. We are using a combination of dioxin receptor (AhR) knock out and conditional knock out mice, Estrogen receptor knock-out mice (ER alpha and beta) and microarrays to identify the specific gene programs activated by these agents in the earliest developing T and B cells. Selected References

Laoisa, MD,A Wyman,FG Murante, NC Fiore, JE Staples, TA Gasiewicz, AE Silverstone (2003) Cell Proliferation arrest within intrathymic lymphocyte progenitor cells causes thymic atrophy mediated by the aryl hydrocarbon receptor: J. Immunol. 171, 4582-4591.

Laiosa,MD, Z-W Lai, TS Thurmond, NC Fiore, C DeRossi, BC. Holdener, TA. Gasiewicz, and AE Silverstone. 2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin Causes Alterations in Lymphocyte Development and Thymic Atrophy in Hemopoietic Chimeras Generated from Mice Deficient in ARNT2,Tox. Sci. 2002, 69,117-124