Rebecca Hall, PhD

Director, Office of Communications & External Relations, Academic Institute
Director of Communications & Academic Reporting, Research Institute
Houston Methodist

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Biography

Dr. Rebecca Hall is the director of communications and academic reporting for Houston Methodist. Dr. Hall is responsible for executive and academic communications and marketing, faculty networking, and academic strategic plan and research development. Hall received her BS in Biochemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and her PhD in Immunology from Baylor College of Medicine. She was Assistant Professor of Cell and Molecular Biology at Baylor College of Medicine and is an Aspen Cancer Conference Fellow. Hall received the Theodore T. Puck Award for Cancer Research for her work on molecular cancer diagnostics. She is a member of the National Organization of Research Development Professionals, the Society for Healthcare Strategy & Development, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Hall joined Houston Methodist in 2010 to lead its communications and external relations office for the Academic Institute, overseeing communications, marketing and academic development.

Areas Of Expertise

Research Development Communications Collaboration Strategic Planning

Education & Training

PhD, Baylor College of Medicine

Publications

A Portrait of Nanomedicine and Its Bioethical Implications

Hall, R, Sun, T & Ferrari, M 2012, Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics, vol. 40, no. 4, pp. 763-779. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-720X.2012.00705.x

A framework for image-based classification of mitotic cells in asynchronous populations

Slattery, SD, Newberg, JY, Szafran, AT, Hall, R, Brinkley, BR & Mancini, MA 2012, Assay and Drug Development Technologies, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 161-178. https://doi.org/10.1089/adt.2011.0397

Aurora-C kinase supports mitotic progression in the absence of Aurora-B

Slattery, SD, Mancini, MA, Brinkley, BR & Hall, RM 2009, Cell Cycle, vol. 8, no. 18, pp. 2986-2997. https://doi.org/10.4161/cc.8.18.9591

Reprogramming of human somatic cells using human and animal oocytes

Chung, Y, Bishop, CE, Treff, NR, Walker, SJ, Sandler, VM, Becker, S, Klimanskaya, I, Wun, WS, Dunn, R, Hall, R, Su, J, Lu, SJ, Maserati, M, Choi, YH, Scott, R, Atala, A, Dittman, R & Lanza, R 2009, Cloning and Stem Cells, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 213-223. https://doi.org/10.1089/clo.2009.0004

Aurora-C and Aurora-B share phosphorylation and regulation of CENP-A and Borealin during mitosis

Slattery, SD, Moore, RV, Brinkley, BR & Hall, R 2008, Cell Cycle, vol. 7, no. 6, pp. 787-795. https://doi.org/10.4161/cc.7.6.5563

Intracellular protein binding to asbestos induces aneuploidy in human lung fibroblasts

MacCorkle, R, Slattery, SD, Nash, DR & Brinkley, BR 2006, Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton, vol. 63, no. 10, pp. 646-657. https://doi.org/10.1002/cm.20151

Mitogen-activated protein kinases in cell-cycle control

MacCorkle, R & Tan, TH 2005, Cell Biochemistry and Biophysics, vol. 43, no. 3, pp. 451-461. https://doi.org/10.1385/CBB:43:3:451

Inhibition of JNK2 disrupts anaphase and produces aneuploidy in mammalian cells

MacCorkle, R & Tan, TH 2004, Journal of Biological Chemistry, vol. 279, no. 38, pp. 40112-40121. https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.M405481200

Protein phosphatase 4 is involved in tumor necrosis factor-a-induced activation of c-Jun N-terminal kinase

Zhou, G, Mihindukulasuriya, KA, MacCorkle-Chosnek, R, Van Hooser, A, Hu, MCT, Brinkley, BR & Tan, TH 2002, Journal of Biological Chemistry, vol. 277, no. 8, pp. 6391-6398. https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.M107014200

A novel conditional Akt 'survival switch' reversibly protects cells from apoptosis

Li, B, Desai, SA, MacCorke-Hall, R, Fan, L & Spencer, DM 2002, Gene therapy, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 233-244. https://doi.org/10.1038/sj/gt/3301641

Cell cycle regulation of c-Jun N-terminal kinase activity at the centrosomes

MacCorkle-Chosnek, R, VanHooser, A, Goodrich, DW, Brinkley, BR & Tan, TH 2001, Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, vol. 289, no. 1, pp. 173-180. https://doi.org/10.1006/bbrc.2001.5948

Synthetic activation of caspases: Artificial death switches

MacCorkle, RA, Freeman, KW & Spencer, DM 1998, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 95, no. 7, pp. 3655-3660. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.95.7.3655

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