Robert M. Evans, PhD
Associate Professor

Education:

• M.S. Pennsylvania State University (1973)

• Ph.D. (Physiology) Pennsylvania State University (1975)

Postdoctoral Education:

• Postdoctoral Fellow in Pathology University of Colorado Denver (1978)

• Postdoctoral Fellow in Biophysics/Biochemistry Yale University

• Medical School (1979)

Robert M. Evans, PhD

Research Activities:

• Intermediate filaments and lipoprotein derived cholesterol utilization

• Cytoskeletal – membrane adhesion complex interactions

• Vimentin-type filaments and toxic injury

Selected Publications: 

• Holwell, T.A, Schweitzer, S. C., Reyland, M.E., and Evans, R.M. (1999) Vimentin dependent utilization of LDL-cholesterol in human adrenal tumor cells is not associated with the level of expression of ApoE, sterol carrier protein-2, or caveolin. J. Lipid Res. 40:1440-1452.

• Reyland, M.E., Evans, R.M., and White E.K. (2000) Lipoproteins regulate expression of endogenous steroidogenic acute regulatory protein (StAR) in mouse adrenocortical cells. J. Biol. Chem. 275:47:36637-36644.

• Schweitzer, S.C., Capetanaki, Y., Bellin, R.M., Robson, R.M., Klymkowsky, M.W., and Evans, R.M. (2001) Paranemin and the organization of desmin filament networks. J. Cell Sci. 114:1079-1089.

• Haubold, K., Herrmann, H., Langer, S., Evans R.M., Leinwand, L.A. and Klymkowsky, M.W. (2003) Mutations in desmin: direct disruption of cytoskeletal organization in neonatal cardiac myocytes. Cell Motil. Cytoskel. 54:105-121.

Office Location:

Bldg. RC-1 North, Room P18-5118

Contact Information:

Phone: (303) 724-4306

Fax:     (303) 724-3712

E-mail: Robert.Evans@ucdenver.edu

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