Marc Gillespie, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences

St. Albert Hall, B18B
8000 Utopia Parkway
Queens, NY 11439
(718) 990-5249
gillespm@stjohns.edu

http://www.gillespielab.org


Educational Background

B.A., 1989, University of Vermont, Minor in Zoology
Ph.D., 1998, University of Utah, Oncological Sciences


Teaching

Undergraduate Courses
Human Anatomy & Physiology II
Molecular Pharmacogenomics
Pharmacogenomics Laboratory
Toxicology And Drugs Of Abuse
Human Anatomy & Physiology Laboratory
Public Health
Molecular Toxicology

Graduate Courses
Molecular Toxicology    
Current Trends/Research In Teaching Science
Introduction To Biotechnology
Gene Technology Lab
Gene Technology


Research

Areas of Specialization
Protein Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, Proteomics, Genomics, Immunology, Public Health, and Toxicology


Publications

Gillespie M, Shamovsky V, D’Eustachio P (2010) Human and chicken TLR pathways: manual curation and computer-based orthology analysis Mammalian Genome – Submitted Manuscript ID MG-OC-10-0068

Joseph R. Woska, Jr. and Marc E. Gillespie (2010) siRNA-mediated Identification And Regulation Of The Ternary SNARE Complex Mediating Mast Cell Degranulation. TAAP, Undergoing Post Revision Review

Demir, E., Cary, M. P., Paley, S., Fukuda, K., Lemer, C., Vastrik, I., Wu, G., D'Eustachio, P., Schaefer, C., Luciano, J., Schacherer, F., Martinez-Flores, I., Hu, Z., Jimenez-Jacinto, V., Joshi-Tope, G., Kandasamy, K., Lopez-Fuentes, A. C., Mi, H., Pichler, E., Rodchenkov, I., Splendiani, A., Tkachev, S., Zucker, J., Gopinath, G., Rajasimha, H., Ramakrishnan, R., Shah, I., Syed, M., Anwar, N., Babur, O., Blinov, M., Brauner, E., Corwin, D., Donaldson, S., Gibbons, F., Goldberg, R., Hornbeck, P., Luna, A., Murray-Rust, P., Neumann, E., Reubenacker, O., Samwald, M., van Iersel, M., Wimalaratne, S., Allen, K., Braun, B., Whirl-Carrillo, M., Dahlquist, K., Finney, A., Gillespie, M., Glass, E., Gong, L., Haw, R., Honig, M., Hubaut, O., Kane, D., Krupa, S., Kutmon, M., Leonard, J., Marks, D., Merberg, D., Petri, V., Pico, A., Ravenscroft, D., Ren, L., Shah, N., Sunshine, M., Tang, R., Whaley, R., Letovksy, S., Buetow, K. H., Rzhetsky, A., Schachter, V., Sobral, B. S., Dogrusoz, U., McWeeney, S., Aladjem, M., Birney, E., Collado-Vides, J., Goto, S., Hucka, M., Novere, N. L., Maltsev, N., Pandey, A., Thomas, P., Wingender, E., Karp, P. D., Sander, C. and Bader, G. D. (2010)BioPAX - A community standard for pathway data sharing. Nature Biotechnology.  In Press.

Robin A. Haw, Marc Gillespie,Michael A. Caudy  (2010) Knowledge-Based Bioinformatics: From Analysis to Interpretation Editors: Alterovitz, G., Ramoni, M.; Chapter 12 -  Reactome and Integrative Pathway Knowledge bases, Wiley ISBN: 978-0-470-74831-2

Matthews L, Gopinath G, Gillespie M, Caudy M, Croft D, de Bono B, Garapati P, Hemish J, Hermjakob H, Jassal B, Kanapin A, Lewis S, Mahajan S, May B, Schmidt E, Vastrik I, Wu G, Birney E, Stein L, D'Eustachio P. (2009) Reactome knowledgebase of human biological pathways and processes. Nucleic Acids Res. 2009 Jan;37(Database issue):D619-22. Epub 2008 Nov 3.

Vastrik I, D'Eustachio P, Schmidt E, Joshi-Tope G, Gopinath G, Croft D, de Bono B, Gillespie M, Jassal B, Lewis S, Matthews L, Wu G, Birney E, Stein L. (2007) Reactome: a knowledgebase of biological pathways and processes. Genome Biol. 2007 Mar 16;8(3):R39

Gillespie ME: Biomarker discovery and compound evaluation using two-hybrid proteomic systems. Expert Opinion on Drug Discovery 2006, 1:389-394.

Joshi-Tope G, Gillespie M, Vastrik I, D'Eustachio P, Schmidt E, de Bono B, Jassal B, Gopinath GR, Wu GR, Matthews L, Lewis S, Birney E, Stein L. (2005). Reactome: A Knowledgebase of Biological Pathways. Nucleic Acids Res 1;33(Database issue):D428-32.

Mukherjee, T., Squillante, E., Gillespie, M., and Shao, J. (2004). Transepithelial electrical resistance is not a reliable measurement of the Caco-2 monolayer integrity in Transwell. Drug Deliv 11, 11-18.

Joshi-Tope, G., I. Vastrik, et al. (2003). "The Genome Knowledgebase: a resource for biologists and bioinformaticists." Cold Spring Harb Symp Quant Biol 68: 237-43.

Gillespie, M (2003) Affordable proteomics: The two-hybrid systems. Current Opinion in Molecular Therapeutics 2003 5(3):266-270

Gillespie, M (2003) Two-Hybrid Proteomics: Leveraging Small-Scale Proteomic Techniques to Take Advantage of Large-Scale Databases. Preclinica, 2003 May/June 37-41

Carvalho, F. and M. E. Gillespie (2003). "Bringing Proteomics Into the Lab - Proteomics Lab 101." Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2003 31: 46-51.


Presentations

Gillespie, M. E. (2010). Biological Pathway Analysis: An Introduction to the Pathway Knowledge Bases for Toxicological Research 49th Annual Society Of Toxicology Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah

Gillespie, M. E. (2009).Online Training of New Curators 3rd International Biocuration Conference Berlin, Germany

Gillespie, M. E. (2009). A Novel Toxicoproteomic/Toxicogenomic Method For The Identification Of Molecular Biomarkers. Society of Toxicology Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD.

Marc Gillespie How would you succinctly describe your institution’s experience of its Catholic identity to colleagues outside your institution? A Faculty Perspective 2008 St. John’s University 2008 Queens, NY

Marc Gillespie, Imre Vastrik, Peter D’Eustachio, Lisa Matthews, Bijay Jassal, Gopal Gopinath1, Bernard de Bono, Guanming Wu, Esther Schmidt, Suzanna Lewis, Ewan Birney, and Lincoln D. Stein, Annotating Infectious Disease Within Reactome, 2006 Baltimore, MD

Marc Gillespie, Imre Vastrik, Peter D’Eustachio, Lisa Matthews, Bijay Jassal, Gopal Gopinath1, Bernard de Bono, Guanming Wu, Esther Schmidt, Suzanna Lewis, Ewan Birney, and Lincoln D. Stein, Annotating The Mechanisms And Models Of Synaptic Transmission In Reactome, 2006 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY

Marc Gillespie, Imre Vastrik, Peter D’Eustachio, Lisa Matthews, Bijay Jassal, Gopal Gopinath1, Bernard de Bono, Guanming Wu, Esther Schmidt, Suzanna Lewis, Ewan Birney, and Lincoln D. Stein, Annotating The Mechanisms And Models Of Cancer In Reactome, 2006 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY

Marc Gillespie, Imre Vastrik, Peter D’Eustachio, Lisa Matthews,Geeta Joshi-Tope, Bijay Jassal, Gopal Gopinath1, Bernard de Bono, Guanming Wu, Esther Schmidt, Suzanna Lewis, Ewan Birney, and Lincoln D. Stein, Annotating Axon Guidance & Neural Plasticity Genes In H. Sapiens For The Reactome, Axon Guidance & Neural Plasticity, 2005 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY

Marc Gillespie, Imre Vastrik, Peter D’Eustachio, Lisa Matthews,Geeta Joshi-Tope, Bijay Jassal, Gopal Gopinath1, Bernard de Bono, Guanming Wu, Esther Schmidt, Suzanna Lewis, Ewan Birney, and Lincoln D. Stein, Annotating Cancer Genetics & Tumor Suppressor Genes In H. Sapiens For The Reactome, Cancer Genetics & Tumor Suppressor Genes, 2005 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY

Gillespie, M., Vastrik, I., D’Eustachio, P., Matthews, L., Joshi-Tope, G., Jassal, B., Gopinath, G., Bono, B. d., Wu, G., Schmidt, E., et al. (2004a). Annotating Axon Guidance & Neural Plasticity Genes In H. Sapiens For The Reactome. Paper presented at: Axon Guidance & Neural Plasticity (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724).

Gillespie, M., Vastrik, I., D’Eustachio, P., Matthews, L., Joshi-Tope, G., Jassal, B., Gopinath, G., Bono, B. d., Wu, G., Schmidt, E., et al. (2004b). Annotating Cancer Genetics & Tumor Suppressor Genes In H. Sapiens For The Reactome. Paper presented at: Cancer Genetics & Tumor Suppressor Genes (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724).