Michael Weinreich

Center for Immunology
Department of Lab Medicine & Pathology
University of Minnesota
MMC 334
420 Delaware St SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Lab: 612/625-1626
Fax: 612/625-2199

email: weinr010@umn.edu

Education

B.S., Biology, University of Washington , 2001

Current Research

Our lab has identified Kruppel Like Factor 2 (KLF2) as a transcription factor necessary for T cell trafficking out of the thymus and into secondary lymphoid tissue. I am working on the cellular signaling that controls KLF2 expression in the thymus.

Publications

2008

Thymic emigration: when and how T cells leave home. 2008 Weinreich MA, Hogquist KA. J Immunol. Aug 15;181(4):2265-70.

T-cell migration: Kruppeled T cells move again. 2008 Hogquist KA, Weinreich MA, Jameson SC. Immunol Cell Biol. May-Jun;86(4):297-8.

2008

Lung Kruppel-like factor regulates thymocyte and T cell migration. 2006. Carlson CM, Endrizzi BT, Wu J, Ding X, Weinreich MA, Walsh ER, Wani M.A., Lingrel J.B., Hogquist K.A., Jameson S.C. Nature;442:299-302.

Publications not associated with Hogquist - Jameson lab

Growth factor receptors as regulators of hematopoiesis. 2006. Weinreich MA, Lintmaer I, Wang L, Liggitt HD, Harkey MA, Blau C. Blood;108:3713-1321.

In vivo selection of genetically modified erythroid cells using a Jak2-based cell growth switch. 2004. Zhao S, Weinreich MA, Ihara K, Richard RE, Blau CA.Mol Ther.;10:456-468.

Modulating erythrocyte mixed Cchimerism in a mouse model of pyruvate kinase deficiency. 2004. Richard RE, Weinreich M, Chang KH, Ieremia J, Stevenson M, Blau C. A. Blood.;103:4432-4439.

Differential regulation of tolerance induced by deletion and TCR revision in VBeta5 transgenic mice. 2003. Ali M, Weinreich M, Balcaitis S, Cooper CJ, Fink PJ. J Immunol.; 171:6290-6296.