Adam Zweifach
Professor
Molecular and Cell Biology

Email: adam.zweifach@uconn.edu

Phone: 860-486-4331

Fax: 860-486-4331

Mailing Address: 91 North Eagleville Road, Unit 3125
Storrs, CT 06268-3125

Office Location: Biology/Physics Building 309

Education: Ph.D., Yale University; Postdoctoral training, Stanford

Research Interests: T lymphocyte function; signal transduction and killing by cytotoxic T cells.

Selected Publications:
Calcium influx and signaling in cytotoxic T-lymphocyte lytic granule exocytosis.
Pores-Fernando AT, Zweifach A.
Immunol Rev. 2009 Sep;231(1):160-73.
PMID: 19754896 [PubMed – in process]
Related Articles

No specific subcellular localization of protein kinase C is required for cytotoxic T cell granule exocytosis.
Pores-Fernando AT, Ranaghan MY, Zweifach A.
J Biol Chem. 2009 Sep 11;284(37):25107-15. Epub 2009 Jul 10.
PMID: 19592494 [PubMed – in process]
Related Articles

Zweifach, A. 2000. Target cell contact activates a highly selective capacitative calcium entry pathway in cytotoxic T lymphocytes. The Journal of Cell Biology 148: 603-614.

Lyubchenko, T.A., G.A. Wurth, and A. Zweifach. 2001. Role of calcium influx in the exocytosis of cytotoxic T lymphocyte lytic granules during target cell killing. Immunity15: 847-859.

Fierro, A.F., G.A. Wurth and A. Zweifach. 2004. Crosstalk with Ca2+ influx does not underlie the role of extracellular signal-regulated kinases in cytotoxic T lymphocyte lytic granule exocytosis. J. Biol. Chem. 279:25646-25652.

Pores-Fernando A.T., R.A. Bauer, G.A. Wurth, and A. Zweifach. Exocytic responses of single leukemic human cytotoxic T lymphocytes stimulated by agents that bypass the T cell receptor. 2005. The Journal of Physiology 567: 891-903.