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David Pincus

TitleAssistant Professor
InstitutionUniversity of Chicago
DepartmentMolecular Genetics and Cell Biology
AddressChicago IL 60637
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    David Pincus is an Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology. The Pincus lab is located in the Center for Physics of Evolving Systems on the 5th floor of GCIS.

    The Pincus Lab studies cellular adaptation at three levels: cell biological mechanisms of adaptation to environmental stress, global principles of adaptation and resource allocation in complex environments, and the intersection of physiological stress response factors and evolutionary adaptation.

    David is trained in approaches in biochemistry, biophysics, genetics, genomics, and molecular, cell, computational, systems and synthetic biology. The lab uses budding yeast and cultured human cells as experimental models.

    Key project areas:
    1) Quantitative cell biology of the heat shock response
    2) Single-cell transcriptomics in complex stress environments
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    UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CABA12/2004Molecular & Cell Biology
    UCSF, San Francisco, CAPhD09/2012Biochemistry
    Whitehead Institute, Cambridge, MA09/2018
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    2007 - 2010Graduate Research Fellowship, NSF
    2013 - 2015Stewart Trust Cancer Fellowship, Alexander and Margaret Stewart Trust
    2013 - 2018Early Independence Award (DP5), NIH Office of the Director

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    RM1GM153533     (PINCUS, DAVID)Aug 1, 2024 - Jul 31, 2029
    NIH
    Multimodal Investigation of Cellular Adaptation Across Timescales
    Role: Principal Investigator
    R01GM138689     (PINCUS, DAVID)Apr 13, 2021 - Mar 31, 2025
    NIH
    Regulatory Dynamics of the Proteostasis Network
    Role: Principal Investigator
    DP5OD017941     (PINCUS, DAVID)Sep 19, 2013 - Sep 30, 2018
    NIH
    Quantitative approaches to reveal the homeostatic control mechanisms of stress re
    Role: Principal Investigator

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    1. Garde R, Dea A, Herwig MF, Ali A, Pincus D. Feedback control of the heat shock response by spatiotemporal regulation of Hsp70. J Cell Biol. 2024 Dec 02; 223(12). PMID: 39302312; PMCID: PMC11415305.
      Citations:    Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    2. Dea A, Pincus D. The Heat Shock Response as a Condensate Cascade. J Mol Biol. 2024 Jul 15; 436(14):168642. PMID: 38848866; PMCID: PMC11214683.
      Citations:    Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    3. Pincus D, Oakes SA. Unfolding emergency calls stress granules to the ER. Nat Cell Biol. 2024 Jun; 26(6):845-846. PMID: 38822214.
      Citations:    Fields:    Translation:HumansAnimalsCells
    4. Garde R, Dea A, Herwig MF, Pincus D. Feedback control of the heat shock response by spatiotemporal regulation of Hsp70. bioRxiv. 2024 Jan 09. PMID: 38260373; PMCID: PMC10802473.
      Citations:    
    5. Ali A, Garde R, Schaffer OC, Bard JAM, Husain K, Kik SK, Davis KA, Luengo-Woods S, Igarashi MG, Drummond DA, Squires AH, Pincus D. Adaptive preservation of orphan ribosomal proteins in chaperone-dispersed condensates. Nat Cell Biol. 2023 Nov; 25(11):1691-1703. PMID: 37845327; PMCID: PMC10868727.
      Citations: 11     Fields:    Translation:HumansAnimalsCells
    6. Gao J, Zhang R, Zheng L, Song L, Ji M, Li S, Wang J, Yang J, Kang G, Zhang P, Shi Y, Jiao Y, Pincus D, Zheng X. Blue light receptor CRY1 regulates HSFA1d nuclear localization to promote plant thermotolerance. Cell Rep. 2023 Sep 26; 42(9):113117. PMID: 37703177; PMCID: PMC10591714.
      Citations: 1     Fields:    
    7. Garde R, Singh A, Ali A, Pincus D. Transcriptional regulation of Sis1 promotes fitness but not feedback in the heat shock response. Elife. 2023 05 09; 12. PMID: 37158601; PMCID: PMC10191621.
      Citations: 5     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    8. Chowdhary S, Kainth AS, Paracha S, Gross DS, Pincus D. Inducible transcriptional condensates drive 3D genome reorganization in the heat shock response. Mol Cell. 2022 11 17; 82(22):4386-4399.e7. PMID: 36327976; PMCID: PMC9701134.
      Citations: 21     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    9. Kainth AS, Chowdhary S, Pincus D, Gross DS. Primordial super-enhancers: heat shock-induced chromatin organization in yeast. Trends Cell Biol. 2021 10; 31(10):801-813. PMID: 34001402; PMCID: PMC8448919.
      Citations: 16     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    10. Ali A, Singh A, Krakowiak J, Zheng X, Bindokas VP, Wolfgeher D, Kron SJ, Pincus D, Feder ZA. Subcellular localization of the J-protein Sis1 regulates the heat shock response. J Cell Biol. 2021 01 04; 220(1). PMID: 33326013; PMCID: PMC7748816.
      Citations: 18     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    11. Tsvetkov P, Eisen TJ, Heinrich SU, Brune Z, Hallacli E, Newby GA, Kayatekin C, Pincus D, Lindquist S. Persistent Activation of mRNA Translation by Transient Hsp90 Inhibition. Cell Rep. 2020 Sep 08; 32(10):108149. PMID: 32905780.
      Citations:    Fields:    
    12. Tsvetkov P, Eisen TJ, Heinrich SU, Brune Z, Hallacli E, Newby GA, Kayatekin C, Pincus D, Lindquist S. Persistent Activation of mRNA Translation by Transient Hsp90 Inhibition. Cell Rep. 2020 08 11; 32(6):108001. PMID: 32783929; PMCID: PMC10088179.
      Citations: 1     Fields:    Translation:HumansCells
    13. Mace K, Krakowiak J, El-Samad H, Pincus D. Multi-kinase control of environmental stress responsive transcription. PLoS One. 2020; 15(3):e0230246. PMID: 32160258; PMCID: PMC7065805.
      Citations: 8     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    14. Pincus D. Regulation of Hsf1 and the Heat Shock Response. Adv Exp Med Biol. 2020; 1243:41-50. PMID: 32297210.
      Citations: 40     Fields:    Translation:HumansAnimalsCells
    15. McCormick JW, Pincus D, Resnekov O, Reynolds KA. Strategies for Engineering and Rewiring Kinase Regulation. Trends Biochem Sci. 2020 03; 45(3):259-271. PMID: 31866305.
      Citations: 13     Fields:    Translation:HumansAnimalsCells
    16. Bushkin GG, Pincus D, Morgan JT, Richardson K, Lewis C, Chan SH, Bartel DP, Fink GR. m6A modification of a 3' UTR site reduces RME1 mRNA levels to promote meiosis. Nat Commun. 2019 07 30; 10(1):3414. PMID: 31363087; PMCID: PMC6667471.
      Citations: 35     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    17. Tye BW, Commins N, Ryazanova LV, Springer M, Pincus D, Churchman LS, Wühr M. Proteotoxicity from aberrant ribosome biogenesis compromises cell fitness. Elife. 2019 03 07; 8. PMID: 30843788; PMCID: PMC6453566.
      Citations: 58     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    18. Chowdhary S, Kainth AS, Pincus D, Gross DS. Heat Shock Factor 1 Drives Intergenic Association of Its Target Gene Loci upon Heat Shock. Cell Rep. 2019 01 02; 26(1):18-28.e5. PMID: 30605674; PMCID: PMC6435272.
      Citations: 35     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    19. Fanning S, Haque A, Imberdis T, Baru V, Barrasa MI, Nuber S, Termine D, Ramalingam N, Ho GPH, Noble T, Sandoe J, Lou Y, Landgraf D, Freyzon Y, Newby G, Soldner F, Terry-Kantor E, Kim TE, Hofbauer HF, Becuwe M, Jaenisch R, Pincus D, Clish CB, Walther TC, Farese RV, Srinivasan S, Welte MA, Kohlwein SD, Dettmer U, Lindquist S, Selkoe D. Lipidomic Analysis of a-Synuclein Neurotoxicity Identifies Stearoyl CoA Desaturase as a Target for Parkinson Treatment. Mol Cell. 2019 03 07; 73(5):1001-1014.e8. PMID: 30527540; PMCID: PMC6408259.
      Citations: 129     Fields:    Translation:HumansAnimalsCells
    20. Pincus D, Pandey JP, Creixell P, Resnekov O, Reynolds KA, Feder ZA. Engineering allosteric regulation in protein kinases. Sci Signal. 2018 11 06; 11(555). PMID: 30401787; PMCID: PMC6662207.
      Citations: 13     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    21. Pincus D, Anandhakumar J, Thiru P, Guertin MJ, Erkine AM, Gross DS. Genetic and epigenetic determinants establish a continuum of Hsf1 occupancy and activity across the yeast genome. Mol Biol Cell. 2018 12 15; 29(26):3168-3182. PMID: 30332327; PMCID: PMC6340206.
      Citations: 37     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    22. Creixell P, Pandey JP, Palmeri A, Bhattacharyya M, Creixell M, Ranganathan R, Pincus D, Yaffe MB. Hierarchical Organization Endows the Kinase Domain with Regulatory Plasticity. Cell Syst. 2018 10 24; 7(4):371-383.e4. PMID: 30243563; PMCID: PMC6202253.
      Citations: 9     Fields:    Translation:HumansCells
    23. Truttmann MC, Pincus D, Ploegh HL. Chaperone AMPylation modulates aggregation and toxicity of neurodegenerative disease-associated polypeptides. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2018 05 29; 115(22):E5008-E5017. PMID: 29760078; PMCID: PMC5984528.
      Citations: 15     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    24. Zheng X, Beyzavi A, Krakowiak J, Patel N, Khalil AS, Pincus D. Hsf1 Phosphorylation Generates Cell-to-Cell Variation in Hsp90 Levels and Promotes Phenotypic Plasticity. Cell Rep. 2018 03 20; 22(12):3099-3106. PMID: 29562166; PMCID: PMC5893160.
      Citations: 20     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    25. Kayatekin C, Amasino A, Gaglia G, Flannick J, Bonner JM, Fanning S, Narayan P, Barrasa MI, Pincus D, Landgraf D, Nelson J, Hesse WR, Costanzo M, AMP T2D-GENES Consortium, Myers CL, Boone C, Florez JC, Lindquist S. Translocon Declogger Ste24 Protects against IAPP Oligomer-Induced Proteotoxicity. Cell. 2018 03 22; 173(1):62-73.e9. PMID: 29526462; PMCID: PMC5945206.
      Citations: 30     Fields:    Translation:HumansAnimalsCells
    26. Krakowiak J, Zheng X, Patel N, Anandhakumar J, Valerius K, Gross DS, Khalil AS, Pincus D, Feder ZA. Hsf1 and Hsp70 constitute a two-component feedback loop that regulates the yeast heat shock response. Elife. 2018 02 02; 7. PMID: 29393852; PMCID: PMC5809143.
      Citations: 61     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    27. Pandey JP, Zheng X, Jin DX, Gupta PB, Airoldi EM, Pincus D, Denic V, Solís EJ. Defining the Essential Function of Yeast Hsf1 Reveals a Compact Transcriptional Program for Maintaining Eukaryotic Proteostasis. Mol Cell. 2018 02 01; 69(3):534. PMID: 29395071; PMCID: PMC5813686.
      Citations: 4     Fields:    
    28. Zheng X, Pincus D. Serial Immunoprecipitation of 3xFLAG/V5-tagged Yeast Proteins to Identify Specific Interactions with Chaperone Proteins. Bio Protoc. 2017 Jun 20; 7(12). PMID: 29104895; PMCID: PMC5669396.
      Citations: 4     
    29. Pincus D, Resnekov O, Reynolds KA. An evolution-based strategy for engineering allosteric regulation. Phys Biol. 2017 04 28; 14(2):025002. PMID: 28266924; PMCID: PMC5943710.
      Citations: 5     Fields:    Translation:Cells
    30. Truttmann MC, Zheng X, Hanke L, Damon JR, Grootveld M, Krakowiak J, Pincus D, Ploegh HL. Unrestrained AMPylation targets cytosolic chaperones and activates the heat shock response. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017 01 10; 114(2):E152-E160. PMID: 28031489; PMCID: PMC5240723.
      Citations: 14     Fields:    Translation:HumansAnimalsCells
    31. Zheng X, Krakowiak J, Patel N, Beyzavi A, Ezike J, Khalil AS, Pincus D. Dynamic control of Hsf1 during heat shock by a chaperone switch and phosphorylation. Elife. 2016 11 10; 5. PMID: 27831465; PMCID: PMC5127643.
      Citations: 111     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    32. Pincus D. Size doesn't matter in the heat shock response. Curr Genet. 2017 May; 63(2):175-178. PMID: 27502399; PMCID: PMC5298949.
      Citations: 3     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    33. Pandey JP, Zheng X, Jin DX, Gupta PB, Airoldi EM, Pincus D, Denic V, Solís EJ. Defining the Essential Function of Yeast Hsf1 Reveals a Compact Transcriptional Program for Maintaining Eukaryotic Proteostasis. Mol Cell. 2016 07 07; 63(1):60-71. PMID: 27320198; PMCID: PMC4938784.
      Citations: 96     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    34. van Anken E, Pincus D, Coyle S, Osman C, Lari F, Korennykh AV, Walter P, Aragón T, Gómez Puerta S. Specificity in endoplasmic reticulum-stress signaling in yeast entails a step-wise engagement of HAC1 mRNA to clusters of the stress sensor Ire1. Elife. 2014 Dec 30; 3:e05031. PMID: 25549299; PMCID: PMC4279078.
      Citations: 25     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    35. Damon JR, Pincus D, Ploegh HL. tRNA thiolation links translation to stress responses in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Mol Biol Cell. 2015 Jan 15; 26(2):270-82. PMID: 25392298; PMCID: PMC4294674.
      Citations: 41     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    36. Pincus D, Ryan CJ, Smith RD, Brent R, Resnekov O. Assigning quantitative function to post-translational modifications reveals multiple sites of phosphorylation that tune yeast pheromone signaling output. PLoS One. 2013; 8(3):e56544. PMID: 23554854; PMCID: PMC3595240.
      Citations: 1     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    37. Vidal SE, Pincus D, Stewart-Ornstein J, El-Samad H. Formation of subnuclear foci is a unique spatial behavior of mating MAPKs during hyperosmotic stress. Cell Rep. 2013 Feb 21; 3(2):328-34. PMID: 23416049; PMCID: PMC3616637.
      Citations: 2     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    38. Fordyce PM, Pincus D, Kimmig P, Nelson CS, El-Samad H, Walter P, DeRisi JL. Basic leucine zipper transcription factor Hac1 binds DNA in two distinct modes as revealed by microfluidic analyses. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012 Nov 06; 109(45):E3084-93. PMID: 23054834; PMCID: PMC3494901.
      Citations: 35     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    39. Pincus D, Walter P. A first line of defense against ER stress. J Cell Biol. 2012 Aug 06; 198(3):277-9. PMID: 22869593; PMCID: PMC3413362.
      Citations: 2     Fields:    Translation:HumansAnimalsCells
    40. Thomson TM, Benjamin KR, Bush A, Love T, Pincus D, Resnekov O, Yu RC, Gordon A, Colman-Lerner A, Endy D, Brent R. Scaffold number in yeast signaling system sets tradeoff between system output and dynamic range. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 Dec 13; 108(50):20265-70. PMID: 22114196; PMCID: PMC3250143.
      Citations: 31     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    41. Rubio C, Pincus D, Korennykh A, Schuck S, El-Samad H, Walter P. Homeostatic adaptation to endoplasmic reticulum stress depends on Ire1 kinase activity. J Cell Biol. 2011 Apr 04; 193(1):171-84. PMID: 21444684; PMCID: PMC3082176.
      Citations: 86     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    42. Pincus D, Chevalier MW, van Anken E, Vidal SE, El-Samad H, Walter P, Aragón T. BiP binding to the ER-stress sensor Ire1 tunes the homeostatic behavior of the unfolded protein response. PLoS Biol. 2010 Jul 06; 8(7):e1000415. PMID: 20625545; PMCID: PMC2897766.
      Citations: 220     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    43. Pincus D, Benjamin K, Burbulis I, Tsong AE, Resnekov O. Reagents for investigating MAPK signalling in model yeast species. Yeast. 2010 Jul; 27(7):423-30. PMID: 20162536.
      Citations: 4     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    44. van Anken E, Pincus D, Serafimova IM, Korennykh AV, Rubio CA, Walter P, Aragón T. Messenger RNA targeting to endoplasmic reticulum stress signalling sites. Nature. 2009 Feb 05; 457(7230):736-40. PMID: 19079237; PMCID: PMC2768538.
      Citations: 162     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    45. Yu RC, Pesce CG, Colman-Lerner A, Lok L, Pincus D, Serra E, Holl M, Benjamin K, Gordon A, Brent R. Negative feedback that improves information transmission in yeast signalling. Nature. 2008 Dec 11; 456(7223):755-61. PMID: 19079053; PMCID: PMC2716709.
      Citations: 114     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    46. King N, Westbrook MJ, Young SL, Kuo A, Abedin M, Chapman J, Fairclough S, Hellsten U, Isogai Y, Letunic I, Marr M, Pincus D, Putnam N, Rokas A, Wright KJ, Zuzow R, Dirks W, Good M, Goodstein D, Lemons D, Li W, Lyons JB, Morris A, Nichols S, Richter DJ, Salamov A, Sequencing JG, Bork P, Lim WA, Manning G, Miller WT, McGinnis W, Shapiro H, Tjian R, Grigoriev IV, Rokhsar D. The genome of the choanoflagellate Monosiga brevicollis and the origin of metazoans. Nature. 2008 Feb 14; 451(7180):783-8. PMID: 18273011; PMCID: PMC2562698.
      Citations: 498     Fields:    Translation:HumansAnimalsCells
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