Biography 

Dr Peter Dallas, Senior Research Officer, is the Head of the Brain Tumour Research Program within the Division of Children’s Leukaemia and Cancer Research at the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research.  Dr Dallas has been with the Institute since 1999.  He and his team are investigating the molecular biology of primitive neuroectodermal tumours of the central nervous system or CNS-PNETs, the most common type of brain tumour affecting children.

Publications

1.         Katelaris PM, Cossart YE, Rose BR, Thompson CH, Sorich E, Nightingale B, et al. Human papillomavirus: the untreated male reservoir. J Urol. 1988; 140(2):300-5.  

2.         Dallas PB, Flanagan JL, Nightingale BN, Morris BJ. Polymerase chain reaction for fast, nonradioactive detection of high- and low-risk papillomavirus types in routine cervical specimens and in biopsies. J Med Virol. 1989; 27(2):105-11.  

3.         Barker SC, Briscoe DA, Close RL, Dallas PB. Genetic variation in the Heterodoxus octoseriatus group (Phthiraptera): a test of Price's model of parasite evolution. Int J Parasitol. 1991; 21(5):555-63. 

4.         Degli-Esposti MA, Dallas PB, Dawkins RL. Neuromuscular function and polymorphism of the acetylcholine receptor gamma gene. Muscle Nerve. 1992; 15(5):543-9.  

5.         Xu J, Dallas PB, Lyons PA, Shellam GR, Scalzo AA. Identification of the glycoprotein H gene of murine cytomegalovirus. J Gen Virol. 1992; 73 ( Pt 7):1849-54.  

6.         Wykes MN, Shellam GR, McCluskey J, Kast WM, Dallas PB, Price P. Murine cytomegalovirus interacts with major histocompatibility complex class I molecules to establish cellular infection. J Virol. 1993; 67(7):4182-9.  

7.         Dallas PB, Lyons PA, Hudson JB, Scalzo AA, Shellam GR. Identification and characterization of a murine cytomegalovirus gene with homology to the UL25 open reading frame of human cytomegalovirus. Virology. 1994; 200(2):643-50.  

8.         Lyons PA, Dallas PB, Carrello C, Shellam GR, Scalzo AA. Mapping and transcriptional analysis of the murine cytomegalovirus homologue of the human cytomegalovirus UL103 open reading frame. Virology. 1994; 204(2):835-9. 

9.         Dallas PB, Yaciuk P, Moran E. Monoclonal antibody NM11 recognizes a C-terminal epitope shared by p300 and CBP. Hybridoma. 1997; 16(3):273-5.  

10.       Dallas PB, Yaciuk P, Moran E. Characterization of monoclonal antibodies raised against p300: both p300 and CBP are present in intracellular TBP complexes. J Virol. 1997; 71(2):1726-31.  

11.       Dallas PB, Cheney IW, Liao DW, Bowrin V, Byam W, Pacchione S, et al. p300/CREB binding protein-related protein p270 is a component of mammalian SWI/SNF complexes. Mol Cell Biol. 1998; 18(6):3596-603.  

12.       Dallas PB, Pacchione S, Wilsker D, Bowrin V, Kobayashi R, Moran E. The human SWI-SNF complex protein p270 is an ARID family member with non-sequence-specific DNA binding activity. Mol Cell Biol. 2000; 20(9):3137-46.  

 13.       Wilsker D, Patsialou A, Dallas PB, Moran E. ARID proteins: a diverse family of DNA binding proteins implicated in the control of cell growth, differentiation, and development. Cell Growth Differ. 2002; 13(3):95-106.  

14.       Scalzo AA, Dallas PB, Forbes CA, Mikosza AS, Fleming P, Lathbury LJ, et al. The murine cytomegalovirus M73.5 gene, a member of a 3' co-terminal alternatively spliced gene family, encodes the gp24 virion glycoprotein. Virology. 2004; 329(2):234-50.  

15.       Wang X, Nagl NG, Jr., Flowers S, Zweitzig D, Dallas PB, Moran E. Expression of p270 (ARID1A), a component of human SWI/SNF complexes, in human tumors. Int J Cancer. 2004; 112(4):636.  

16.       Wang X, Nagl NG, Wilsker D, Van Scoy M, Pacchione S, Yaciuk P, et al. Two related ARID family proteins are alternative subunits of human SWI/SNF complexes. Biochem J. 2004; 383(Pt 2):319-25.  

17.       Wilsker D, Patsialou A, Zumbrun SD, Kim S, Chen Y, Dallas PB, et al. The DNA-binding properties of the ARID-containing subunits of yeast and mammalian SWI/SNF complexes. Nucleic Acids Res. 2004; 32(4):1345-53.  

18.       Dallas PB, Gottardo NG, Firth MJ, Beesley AH, Hoffmann K, Terry PA, et al. Gene expression levels assessed by oligonucleotide microarray analysis and quantitative real-time RT-PCR -- how well do they correlate? BMC Genomics. 2005; 6(1):59.  

19.       Dallas PB, Terry PA, Kees UR. Genomic deletions in cell lines derived from primitive neuroectodermal tumors of the central nervous system. Cancer Genet Cytogenet. 2005; 159(2):105-13.  

20.       Nagl NG, Jr., Patsialou A, Haines DS, Dallas PB, Beck GR, Jr., Moran E. The p270 (ARID1A/SMARCF1) subunit of mammalian SWI/SNF-related complexes is essential for normal cell cycle arrest. Cancer Res. 2005; 65(20):9236-44. 

21.       Dallas PB, Egli S, Terry PA, Kees UR. Aberrant over-expression of a forkhead family member, FOXO1A, in a brain tumor cell line. BMC Cancer. 2007; 7:67.  

22.        Holthouse, D. J., Dallas, P. B., Ford, J., Fabian, V., Murch, A. R., Watson, M., Wong, G., Bertram, C. M., Egli, S., Baker, D. L., and U. R. Kees. 2008. Classic and desmoplastic medulloblastoma: complete case reports and characterizations of two new cell lines. Neuropathology. 29(4):398-409

23.        Bertram, C. M., Hawes, S., Egli, S., Peh, G., Kees, U. R., and Dallas, P. B. 2010. Effective adenovirus mediated gene transfer into neural stem cells derived from human embryonic stem cells. Stem Cells Dev 19:569-578