Editors for Cell Biology
Senior editors
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Anna Akhmanova
Deputy Editor
Anna Akhmanova is a Professor of Cell Biology at the Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University, the Netherlands. She studied biochemistry and molecular biology at the Moscow State University and obtained her PhD at the University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Akhmanova studies cytoskeletal organization and trafficking processes, which contribute to cell polarization, differentiation, vertebrate development and human disease. The main focus of the work in her group is the microtubule cytoskeleton. Research in the group relies on combining high-resolution live cell imaging and quantitative analysis of cytoskeletal dynamics with in vitro reconstitution experiments. Her work has resulted in identification and characterization of a broad variety of factors which control microtubule organization and dynamics and motor attachment to membrane organelles. Anna Akhmanova is an elected member of the European Molecular Biology Organization and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- cytoskeletal dynamics
- microtubule-binding proteins
- microtubule-based motors
- membrane transport
- Competing interests statement
- Anna Akhmanova receives funding from the European Research Council, Human Frontier Science Program, and the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research. She is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience. She served on the editorial boards of BMC Cell Biology and Journal of Biological Chemistry. She is a currently on the editorial boards of PLOS Biology, Journal of Cell Science, Traffic, and BioArchitecture.
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Jonathan A Cooper
Senior Editor
Jon Cooper is a member of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, where he is also a Senior Vice-President and Director of the Division of Basic Sciences. He holds an Affiliate Professor appointment in the Biochemistry department at the University of Washington. After undergraduate studies at the University of Cambridge and post-graduate research at the University of Warwick, he performed postdoctoral research with Bernard Moss at the NIH and with Tony Hunter at the Salk Institute. With Tony, he found that oncogenic retroviruses (Rous sarcoma virus and others) and growth factors (EGF and PDGF) stimulate the tyrosine phosphorylation of overlapping subsets of cell proteins, which were candidates to regulate cell proliferation and metabolism. He joined Fred Hutch in 1985 to continue the work he started at the Salk, investigating the mechanisms by which protein kinases regulate cell proliferation and transformation. His laboratory played important roles in establishing how Src is regulated, how activated growth factor receptors recruit signaling proteins, and Ras-Raf-MAPK signaling. In 1995, postdoc Brian Howell knocked out the gene for a Src substrate and observed a distinctive brain development phenotype. Efforts by several laboratories rapidly established a signaling pathway that regulates neuron migrations during brain development. Further studies on this pathway revealed the importance of ubiquitination and degradation for terminating signaling, and led in recent years to detailed investigation of the roles of Cullin-RING ligases in regulating signal transduction events in vivo and in cultured cells.
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- signaling pathways
- cell migration
- phosphorylation
- cell transformation
- Competing interests statement
- Jon Cooper receives research grants from the NIH and he serves on the editorial board of Molecular and Cellular Biology.
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Ivan Dikic
Senior Editor
Ivan Dikic is a Professor and Chairman of Institute of Biochemistry II at the Medical School Goethe University and a member of the Buchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences in Frankfurt. He was trained as a medical doctor at Zagreb University and obtained his PhD in molecular biology with Joseph Schlessinger. His career is focused on studying intracellular signaling initially via protein tyrosine kinases where he revealed how multiple monoubiquitination controls EGFR endocytosis. His lab has pioneered a concept of Ubiquitin as a multivalent cellular signal that regulates multitude of physiological and pathophysiological processes including DNA repair, inflammation, cancer, infection and proteasomal degradation. Ivan’s group also provided structural and functional evidence for a new type of Ub chains that are Met1-linked (called linear ubiquitination) in promoting the NF-kB signaling. His current interests focus on selective autophagy, which is essential for the clearance of protein aggregates, pathogens, and damaged mitochondria from the cell. He has received many awards for his work including the AACR Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cancer Research, the Award of European Association for Cancer Research, the Hans Krebs Prize, the Leibniz Award and the Ernst Jung Award in Medicine. He is a Member of the German Academy for Sciences Leopoldina, Academia Europaea, Croatian Academy of Medical Sciences and the European Molecular Biology Organization.
- Expertise
- Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- ubiquitination
- autophagy
- endocytosis
- inflammation
- cancer biology
- Competing interests statement
- Ivan Dikic receives funding from the Deutsche Forshungsemeinschaft and European Union, and serves as a Scientific Advisory Board member of the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center of Protein Research Copenhagen, MRC Phosphorylation and Ubiquitination Unit Dundee, DKFZ-ZMBH Allianz. He is a chairman of the EMBO Publication Committee and is on the editorial boards of Cell, Molecular Cell, Developmental Cell, EMBO Journal, EMBO Reports, BMC Biology, Biochemical Journal, and Cell Death and Differentiation.
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Vivek Malhotra
Senior Editor
Vivek Malhotra was a professor in the biology division at UC San Diego from 2007 and is now the ICREA Professor and Chair of the Cell and Developmental Biology at Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona. His research focuses on a central station of the secretory pathway, the Golgi complex. Specifically, his work has resulted in the identification of the machinery required for the sorting and packaging of secretory cargoes. His recent work has uncovered a novel secretory routing that bypasses the conventional pathway of protein secretion. He has identified new genes required for the export of bulky collagens and the regulated secretion of mucins. He received his BSc from Stirling University and was a Pirie–Reid scholar at Oxford; a Damon Runyon Walter Winchell and an American Cancer Society postdoctoral fellow at Stanford; and Basil O’Conner scholar, established Investigator of the American Heart Association, and Senior Investigator of Sandler’s Foundation for Asthma at UC San Diego. He received the MERCK award from the American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, is a fellow of the American association of the arts and science, and is an elected EMBO member.
- Expertise
- Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- Golgi apparatus: biogenesis, structure, and function
- Collagen and Mucin secretion
- Competing interests statement
- Vivek Malhotra receives funding from ERC/European Research Council, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, AGAUR and the Plan Nacional (Spain) He is a Scientific Advisory Board member of TIGEM (Naples, Italy), CNR (Naples, Italy), CBMSO (Madrid, Spain) and Department of Biotechnology (India). He has served on the editorial board of Cell and was an associate editor of Molecular Biology of the Cell. He is currently on the editorial boards of Journal of Cell Biology and Current Opinion in Cell Biology.
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Andrea Musacchio
Senior Editor
Andrea Musacchio is Director of the Department of Mechanistic Cell Biology at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology in Dortmund (Germany) since 2011, and he is also adjunct professor at the University of Duisburg-Essen. Before this, he worked at the European Institute of Oncology in Milan (Italy), where he established his first laboratory as an independent investigator in 1999. Musacchio completed undergraduate studies at the University of Rome-Tor Vergata and moved for his graduate studies to the EMBL in Heidelberg, working under the guidance of Dr. Matti Saraste on the structural analysis of signalling domains. He later moved to do his postdoctoral training at the Harvard Medical School under the guidance of Prof. Stephen C. Harrison, working on structures of clathrin. Work in the Musacchio laboratory focuses on the biochemical reconstitution, structural analysis, and functional investigation of kinetochores and centromeres, structures required for chromosome segregation during mitosis. Musacchio is EMBO Member since 2009.
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
- Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
- Research focus
- kinetochore
- cell cycle
- centromere
- Competing interests statement
- Andrea Musacchio receives funding from the Max Planck Society, the Deutsche Forschung Gemeinschaft, and the European Commission. He serves on the Editorial Boards of Current Biology, EMBO Reports, Chromosoma, Cell Research, Journal of Cell and Molecular Biology, Biology Open, and Journal of Structural Biology. He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Armenise-Harvard Foundation.
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Randy Schekman
Editor-in-Chief
Randy Schekman was awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, with James Rothman and Thomas Sudhof. He is Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, and an Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. His work concerns the mechanism of membrane assembly and vesicular traffic in eukaryotic cells. He and his laboratory discovered many of the genes and proteins required for secretion in yeast and they have applied this knowledge to understand human genetic diseases that affect core components of the secretory machinery. Among other awards, he shared the Gairdner International Award, the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize and the Lasker Award with James Rothman. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society and the National Academy of Sciences, he was elected President of the American Society for Cell Biology in 1999 and served as Editor-in-Chief of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences from 2006 to late 2011.
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- membrane assembly
- vesicular trafficking
- protein transport
- animal and human cell biology
- Competing interests statement
- Randy Schekman has received funding from the HHMI, the UC Berkeley Miller Foundation and from the Glenn Foundation. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Annual Reviews of Cell and Developmental Biology, Head of Faculty for Cell Biology for F1000, the Scientific Director of the Jane Coffin Childs Fund (ends 2012), and Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Tamasek Life Science laboratory, Singapore (ends 2012). He was the Editor-in-Chief of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (until 2011), and was an elected Council member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (until this year).
Reviewing editors
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Abby Dernburg
University of California, Berkeley, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Research focus
- meiosis
- synapsis
- meiotic recombination
- chromosome dynamics
- Experimental organism
- C. elegans
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Jody Rosenblatt
University of Utah, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Human Biology and Medicine
- Cancer Biology
- Research focus
- apoptosis
- mitosis
- cell extrusion
- epithelial
- homeostasis
- morphogenesis
- cancer cell biology
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Xiaochen Wang
Institute of Biophysics Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- lysosome homeostasis
- Phagocytosis
- Experimental organism
- C. elegans
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Hitoshi Nakatogawa
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
- Research focus
- molecular mechanisms of autophagy
- protein/organelle degradation
- membrane dynamics
- Experimental organism
- S. cerevisiae
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Arun Radhakrishnan
UT Southwestern Medical Center, United States
- Expertise
- Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
- Cell Biology
- Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
- Research focus
- cholesterol sensors
- cholesterol transport
- endoplasmic reticulum
- Experimental organism
- E. coli
- human
- mouse
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Thomas Surrey
The Francis Crick Institute, United Kingdom
- Expertise
- Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- Microtubule cytoskeleton
- in vitro reconstitution
- Experimental organism
- human
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Peter Ratcliffe
University of Oxford, United Kingdom
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Human Biology and Medicine
- Research focus
- cancer
- metabolism
- epigenetics
- cellular biology
- angiogenesis
- hypoxia
- Experimental organism
- human
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Jurgen Kleine-Vehn
University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria
- Expertise
- Plant Biology
- Cell Biology
- Developmental Biology
- Research focus
- Plant growth regulation at organelle level
- phytohormonal control of cellular growth
- auxin-dependent growth regulation on subcellular, cellular, tissue and organ level.
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Mohan Balasubramanian
Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory (Singapore) & University of Warwick, United Kingdom
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- cytokinesis
- cell cycle
- cytoskeleton
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Patricia Bassereau
Institut Curie, France
- Expertise
- Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- membrane biophysics
- intracellular trafficking
- membrane shaping mechanisms
- biomimetic membrane systems
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Philippe Bastiaens
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Germany
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- systems biology
- functional microscopy
- signal transduction
- quantitative biology
- biosensors
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Dominique Bergmann
Stanford University, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Plant Biology
- Research focus
- cell polarity
- plant development
- Experimental organism
- arabidopsis thaliana
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Margaret Buckingham
Institut Pasteur, France
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- cardiogenesis
- muscle stem cells
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Christopher G Burd
Yale University School of Medicine, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- endocytosis
- secretion
- organelle biogenesis
- phosphoinositide signaling
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Agnieszka Chacinska
University of Warsaw, Poland
- Expertise
- Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- mitochondria
- organelles
- protein biogenesis
- protein degradation
- protein transport
- Experimental organism
- human
- S. cerevisiae
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Michael Czech
University of Massachusetts Medical School, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Human Biology and Medicine
- Research focus
- insulin
- metabolism
- lipid-protein interactions
- signal transduction
- membranes
- adipose
- obesity
- insulin resistance
- diabetes
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Roger Davis
University of Massachusetts Medical School, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Research focus
- signal transduction
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Ralph J DeBerardinis
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, United States
- Expertise
- Cancer Biology
- Cell Biology
- Human Biology and Medicine
- Research focus
- cancer
- metabolism
- medicine
- genetics
- Experimental organism
- human
- mouse
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Elisabetta Dejana
FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology, Italy
- Expertise
- Cancer Biology
- Cell Biology
- Developmental Biology
- Research focus
- angiogenesis
- cell adhesion
- VE-cadherin
- vascular permeability
- vascular development and patterning
- endothelium
- blood brain barrier
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Volker Dötsch
Goethe University, Germany
- Expertise
- Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- membrane proteins
- signal transduction
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Joaquin Espinosa
University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, United States
- Expertise
- Cancer Biology
- Cell Biology
- Human Biology and Medicine
- Research focus
- apoptosis
- p53
- tumor suppressors
- cancer biology
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Reinhard Fässler
Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Germany
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Developmental Biology
- Research focus
- ECM
- integrin adhesion and signalling
- cell biology
- mouse genetics
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Matthew Freeman
Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, United Kingdom
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- cell signalling
- trafficking
- Experimental organism
- Drosophila
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J Wade Harper
Harvard Medical School, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- protein turnover
- ubiquitin
- autophagy
- signal transduction
- protein interactions
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Ramanujan S Hegde
Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, United Kingdom
- Expertise
- Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- protein translocation
- endoplasmic reticulum
- quality control
- protein degradation
- membrane protein insertion
- protein aggregation
- in vitro reconstitution
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Valerie Horsley
Yale University, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Developmental Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- epithelial stem cells
- adipocyte stem cells
- adipose tissue
- epithelial-mesenchymal interactions
- mechanical regulation of tissues
- tissue regeneration
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Tony Hunter
Salk Institute for Biological Studies, United States
- Expertise
- Cancer Biology
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- cell signaling and basic cancer biology
- signaling pathways in animal and human cells
- cell cycle
- phosphorylation
- protein modification
- cancer
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Tony Hyman
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Germany
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- cell division
- cytokinesis
- cell polarity
- organelles
- Experimental organism
- C. elegans
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Michael Kozlov
Tel Aviv University, Israel
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- modeling membrane shapes
- membrane curvature
- membrane fusion
- membrane fission
- membrane bending by proteins
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Werner Kuhlbrandt
Max Planck Institute for Biophysics, Germany
- Expertise
- Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
- Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- membrane protein structure and function
- membrane transporters
- macromolecular complexes
- molecular bioenergetics
- cryo-EM
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Pekka Lappalainen
University of Helsinki, Finland
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- actin
- cytoskeleton-membrane interplay
- cell migration
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Michael Laub
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- bacterial development
- bacterial systems biology
- signal transduction
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Jamey Marth
University of California, Santa Barbara, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Human Biology and Medicine
- Research focus
- glycobiology
- protein glycosylation
- cell biology of disease
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Joan Massagué
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, United States
- Expertise
- Cancer Biology
- Cell Biology
- Human Biology and Medicine
- Research focus
- signaling
- cell fate
- tumor heterogeneity
- metastasis
- Experimental organism
- human tissue
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Sheila McCormick
University of California, Berkeley, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Plant Biology
- Research focus
- cell polarity
- signal transduction
- plant gametophyte development
- reproductive biology
- Experimental organism
- arabidopsis thaliana
- tomato
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Noboru Mizushima
University of Tokyo, Japan
- Expertise
- Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- protein degradation
- lysosome
- autophagy
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Thorsten Nurnberger
University of Tübingen, Germany
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Plant Biology
- Research focus
- innate immunity
- plant-microbe interactions
- plant immunity
- Experimental organism
- arabidopsis thaliana
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Duojia Pan
UT Southwestern Medical Center, United States
- Expertise
- Cancer Biology
- Cell Biology
- Human Biology and Medicine
- Research focus
- signal transduction
- growth control
- cancer biology
- Experimental organism
- Drosophila
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Maddy Parsons
King's College London, United Kingdom
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- motility
- cell migration
- adhesion receptor signalling
- cancer metastasis
- integrin signalling
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Suzanne R Pfeffer
Stanford University, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Human Biology and Medicine
- Research focus
- membrane traffic
- endosomes
- lysosomes
- golgi complex
- secretory pathway
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Jon Pines
University College London, United Kingdom
- Expertise
- Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- cyclins and anaphase promoting complex/cycosome (APC/C)
- cell cycle
- mitosis
- spindle assembly checkpoint
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Ambra Pozzi
Vanderbilt University, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- integrins
- extracellular matrix
- mechanisms of fibrosis
- receptor tyrosine kinases
- kidney
- cell signalling and translation
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Nick J Proudfoot
Oxford University, United Kingdom
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Research focus
- mRNA processing
- transcription
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Michael Rape
UC Berkeley, United States
- Expertise
- Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- ubiquitin
- mitosis
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Samara L Reck-Peterson
University of California San Diego, United States
- Expertise
- Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- microtubule-based motors
- intracellular transport
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Danny Reinberg
New York University, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Research focus
- epigenetics
- chromatin biology
- chromatin
- histones
- transcription
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Jeremy Reiter
University of California, San Diego, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Developmental Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- cilia
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Margaret S Robinson
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- membrane traffic
- coated vesicles
- Experimental organism
- human
- mammalian cells
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David Ron
Cambridge University, United Kingdom
- Expertise
- Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- chaperones
- unfolded protein response
- oxidative protein folding
- protein synthesis
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Alejandro Sanchez Alvarado
Stowers Institute for Medical Research, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- regeneration
- Experimental organism
- planaria
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Kang Shen
Stanford University, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Neuroscience
- Research focus
- synapse
- neuronal cytoskeleton
- neuronal cell biology
- developmental neurobiology
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Robert H Singer
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Research focus
- transcription
- mRNA localization
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Jonathan P Staley
University of Chicago, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Research focus
- catalysis
- proofreading
- RNA dynamics
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Peter Tontonoz
University of California, Los Angeles, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Human Biology and Medicine
- Research focus
- nuclear receptors
- lipid metabolism
- obesity/diabetes
- atherosclerosis
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David Wallach
The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Immunology and Inflammation
- Research focus
- immune defense
- programmed cell death
- activation of transcription factors
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Yue Wang
Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- fungal pathogenesis
- fungal cell cycle and morphogenesis
- bacterial-fungal interaction
- Experimental organism
- candida albicans
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Karsten Weis
ETH Zürich, Switzerland
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- nuclear transport
- nuclear pore
- mRNA transport
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Yukiko M Yamashita
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Michigan, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Developmental Biology
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- stem cells
- stem cell niche
- asymmetric division
- spindle orientation
- centrosome
- Experimental organism
- D. melanogaster
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Hong Zhang
Institute of Biophysics Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Developmental Biology
- Research focus
- autophagy
- lysosome
- membrane contact
- Experimental organism
- C. elegans
