Editors for Cell Biology
Senior editors
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Anna Akhmanova
Utrecht University, Netherlands
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
- cell migration
- 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
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, United States
Jon Cooper is a member of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle and an Affiliate Professor of Biochemistry 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 establishing 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
- Neuroscience
- Research focus
- signaling pathways
- cell migration
- phosphorylation
- cell transformation
- Competing interests statement
- Jon Cooper receives research grants from the NIH.
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Erica Golemis
Fox Chase Cancer Center, United States
Erica A Golemis, PhD is a Professor at Fox Chase Cancer Center (FCCC), and Adjunct Professor at the Temple University School of Medicine, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Drexel University College of Medicine. Since 2008, she has served as Co-Leader for the FCCC Molecular Therapeutics program, and as Deputy Chief Science Officer at FCCC. She is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and holds the William Wikoff Smith Chair in Biology at Fox Chase. Dr Golemis joined FCCC in 1993, after completing graduate training in mechanisms of leukemogenesis at MIT, and postdoctoral work at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital leading to the development of new technology for the identification and analysis of protein interaction networks. One focus of her reserch is the targeted study of a group of oncogenes including NEDD9, AURKA, and associated proteins that regulate cell cycle and metastasis; this work has recently focused on defining non-canonical activities of these proteins in control of ciliation as a mechanism for their oncogenic effect. A second research area is the use of bioinformatics-guided and siRNA screening approaches to elucidate signaling networks that can be targeted to improve therapeutic response; this work is typically highly collaborative with clinical researchers. In the past 25 years, she has served continuously on peer-review panels for the NIH, the American Cancer Society, the DOD, the Komen Foundation, and other agencies.
- Expertise
- Cancer Biology
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- signal transduction
- targeted therapy
- mitosis
- cilia
- polycystic kidney disease
- colorectal cancer
- head and neck cancer
- invasion
- metastasis
- Competing interests statement
- Dr Golemis currently receives funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and holds editorial roles at the following journals: Cancer Biology and Therapy, Frontiers in Oncology, Gene and BMC Cancer.
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David James
University of Sydney, Australia
Professor James currently holds the Leonard P Ullmann Chair in Molecular Systems Biology and he is the Domain Leader for Biology at the Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney. Professor James has made major contributions to our understanding of insulin action. In the late 1980s he published a series of journal articles in Nature describing the identification and characterization of the insulin responsive glucose transporter GLUT4. Professor James then focused his efforts on unveiling the cellular and molecular control of insulin-stimulated glucose transport. He has also made contributions in the area of SNARE proteins, signal transduction and more recently in systems biology.
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
- Research focus
- diabetes
- metabolism
- insulin action
- protein phosphorylation
- signal transduction
- Experimental organism
- D. melanogaster
- human
- mouse
- Competing interests statement
- David James has been funded by bodies like National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), Wellcome Trust, Australian Research Council (ARC), NIH, Pfizer, Eli Lilly and Novo, had continuous NHMRC research fellowships since 1998 and is now Senior Principal Research Fellow.
James has served on editorial boards of journals such as The Journal of Biological Chemistry and The American Journal of Physiology for more than 10 years and is currently on five boards with major roles at Cell Metabolism (only Australian) and The Journal of Clinical Investigation. James reviews ~30 manuscripts per year for journals like Nature, Nature Cell Biology, Nature Medicine, Science, PNAS, The Journal Clinical Invest, Molecular Endocrinology, Endocrinology, Molecular Biology of the Cell, Journal of Cell Biology, Traffic, FASEB J, Genes & Development and grants for Diabetes Australia, National Heart, Wellcome Trust, ARC, NHMRC and International Foundations.
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Matt Kaeberlein
University of Washington, United States
Dr Matt Kaeberlein is a Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at the University of Washington School of Medicine, with Adjunct appointments in Genome Sciences and Oral Health Sciences. Dr Kaeberlein’s research interests are focused on biological mechanisms of aging in order to facilitate translational interventions that promote healthspan and improve quality of life. He has published more than 200 scientific papers and has been recognized by several prestigious awards including young investigator awards from the Ellison Medical Foundation and the Alzheimer’s Association, the Vincent Cristofalo Rising Start in Aging Research Award, the Murdock Trust Award, and the NIA Nathan W. Shock Award. Dr Kaeberlein has been awarded Fellow status with the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the American Aging Association (AGE), and the Gerontological Society of America (GSA). Dr Kaeberlein is currently the CEO of the American Aging Association and has served on the Board of Directors for the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB), AGE, and GSA. Dr Kaeberlein is the founding Director of the University of Washington (UW) Healthy Aging and Longevity Research Institute, the Director of the UW Nathan Shock Center of Excellence in the Basic Biology of Aging, Director of the UW Biological Mechanisms of Healthy Aging Training Program, and founder and co-Director of the Dog Aging Project.
- Expertise
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Cell Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Immunology and Inflammation
- Neuroscience
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- aging
- longevity
- mitochondria
- proteostasis
- neurodegeneration
- inflammation
- senescence
- geroscience
- Experimental organism
- yeast
- C. elegans
- mouse
- dog
- Competing interests statement
- Dr Kaeberlein receives funding from the NIH (NIA and NINDS) and NSF. He is the Editor-in-chief of Translational Medicine of Aging and an editorial board member at Science, GeroScience, Aging Research Reviews, and BioEssays.
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Vivek Malhotra
The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Spain
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 membranes
- protein secretion
- collagen
- mucins
- unconventional protein 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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Suzanne R Pfeffer
Stanford University School of Medicine, United States
Suzanne Pfeffer is the Emma Pfeiffer Merner Professor of Medical Sciences and Professor of Biochemistry at Stanford University School of Medicine. She is an expert in the field of membrane trafficking in the secretory and endocytic pathways, and her research currently focuses on the molecular basis of LRRK2-mediated, familial Parkinson's Disease and Niemann Pick Type C disease, with emphasis on Rab GTPase regulation and cholesterol export from lysosomes. She is a past President of the American Society for Cell Biology and the American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and a Fellow of the American Society for Cell Biology, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- membrane traffic
- endosomes
- lysosomes
- golgi complex
- secretory pathway
- cholesterol transport
- Competing interests statement
- Suzanne Pfeffer's research is currently funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Michael J. Fox Foundation and the Ara Parseghian Medical Research Foundation. She serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Ara Parseghian Medical Research Foundation, the Swiss National Science Foundation funded NCCR program in Chemical Biology at the EPFL and University of Geneva, and she is a chartered member of the NIH NCSD review panel. Suzanne Pfeffer also serves as Co-Section Head for Membranes and Sorting, Faculty of 1000.
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David Ron
Cambridge University, United Kingdom
David Ron is a Professor at Cambridge University. He directs a lab at the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research (CIMR) studying protein-folding homeostasis in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). The lab uses biochemical, biophysical and cell-based tools to research both the molecular mechanisms that recognize the burden of unfolded proteins and thus initiate signalling in the ER unfolded protein response (UPR) and the downstream effector pathways by which cells adapt to unfolded protein stress in their ER. These effector mechanisms engage post-translational regulation of ER chaperone function, regulated translation of mRNA and transcriptional control of gene expression and thus interface with other cellular stress pathways.
To eLife, David Ron brings scientific expertise in the study of the unfolded protein response, chaperone function and stress-induced regulation of mRNA translation and editorial experience from having served as an eLife Reviewing Editor since 2012.
- Expertise
- Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- chaperones
- unfolded protein response
- oxidative protein folding
- protein synthesis
- Experimental organism
- C. elegans
- E. coli
- human
- mouse
- S. cerevisiae
- Competing interests statement
- David Ron holds a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellowship and is on the editorial advisory boards of J. Cell Science, PLOS Biology and EMBO J.
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Piali Sengupta
Brandeis University, United States
Piali Sengupta is a Professor and current Chair of the Department of Biology at Brandeis University. Dr Sengupta completed her PhD at MIT, and postdoctoral training with Dr Cori Bargmann at UCSF. Her lab uses the C. elegans experimental system to investigate the mechanisms by which animals sense and respond to environmental cues in a context- and experience-dependent manner. In one line of research, her lab examines how sensory cilia are generated and specialized for the unique functions of each neuron type. A second major focus is to identify the molecular and genetic pathways by which neurons sense and transduce chemical and thermal cues, and describe how this information is translated into specific developmental and behavioral responses. She is a MERIT awardee from the NIH, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and served as elected Treasurer of the Genetics Society of America.
- Expertise
- Neuroscience
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- cilia biology
- sensory transduction
- chemosensation
- thermosensation
- behavior
- Experimental organism
- C. elegans
- Competing interests statement
- Dr Sengupta’s research is funded by the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. She is currently a chartered member of the NCF study section at the NIH, serves as ad hoc member of additional NIH panels, and is on the Advisory Board of the Searle Scholars Program. She is an Advisory Board Member of PLOS Biology, and on the Editorial Boards of PLOS Biology, Current Opinion in Neurobiology, and Section Editor (Neurobiology and Behavior) of WormBook (in Genetics). She previously served on the Editorial Boards of Genetics, eNeuro, Genes Brain and Behavior, BMC Neuroscience, and Developmental Neurobiology.
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Kevin Struhl
Harvard Medical School, United States
Kevin Struhl received a BS and MS from MIT, a PhD from Stanford University Medical School, and did postdoctoral work at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, UK. He has been in the Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at Harvard Medical School since 1982, was acting Chair from 1997–98, and has been the David Wesley Gaiser Professor since 1991. His research combines genetic, molecular, genomic, and evolutionary approaches to address a wide variety of fundamental questions about transcriptional regulatory mechanisms and chromatin structure in yeast. In addition, he is interested in elucidating transcriptional regulatory circuits that mediate the process of cellular transformation and the formation of cancer stem cells. He has authored or co-authored nearly 300 research articles and reviews, and is an ISI Highly Cited Researcher. He received the Eli Lilly Award in Microbiology and is a Distinguished Researcher at the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology in Crete. Dr. Struhl is a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, and the National Academy of Medicine.
- Expertise
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- chromatin biology
- cancer biology
- transcription mechanisms
- transcription
- gene regulatory circuits
- epigenetics
- mRNA decay
- biological function
- cellular transformation
- cancer stem cells
- molecular biology
- Competing interests statement
- Kevin Struhl receives funding from the National Institutes of Health. He is on the Scientific Advisory Board of Sangamo, Inc and the Klarman Cell Observatory at the Broad Institute. He is on the editorial boards of Current Protocols in Molecular Biology and Epigenetics and Chromatin.
Reviewing editors
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Derek Applewhite
Reed College, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- cytoskeleton
- actin-microtubule crosslinkers
- actin
- microtubules
- cell migration
- non-muscle myosin II
- morphogenesis
- Experimental organism
- D. melanogaster
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Michel Bagnat
Duke University, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Developmental Biology
- Research focus
- morphogenesis
- Experimental organism
- zebrafish
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Mohan Balasubramanian
University of Warwick, United Kingdom
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- cytokinesis
- cell cycle
- cytoskeleton
- Experimental organism
- S. pombe
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Frederic A Bard
Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (A*STAR), Singapore
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Cancer Biology
- Research focus
- Golgi
- protein glycosylation
- signaling
- cancer
- matrix degradation
- cell migration
- Experimental organism
- human
- mouse
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Patricia Bassereau
Institut Curie, France
- Expertise
- Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
- Cell Biology
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- membrane mechanics
- membrane trafficking
- endocytosis
- in vitro reconstituted membrane systems
- membrane curvature
- filopodia
- membrane organization
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Victoria L Bautch
University of North Carolina, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Developmental Biology
- Research focus
- growth and interactions of cells
- blood vessel formation
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Nils Brose
Max Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine, Germany
- Expertise
- Neuroscience
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- synapses
- synaptogenesis
- transmitter release
- synaptic plasticity
- synaptopathies
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Felix Campelo
The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Spain
- Expertise
- Physics of Living Systems
- Cell Biology
- Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
- Research focus
- membrane mechanics
- membrane curvature
- intracellular trafficking
- membrane organization
- membrane contact sites
- Golgi complex
- endoplasmic reticulum exit sites
- super-resolution microscopy
- single-molecule microscopy
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Andrew Carter
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (Cambridge), United Kingdom
- Expertise
- Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- x-ray crystallography
- cryo-EM
- single molecule methods
- dynein
- microtubules
- actin
- cytoskeleton
- dynactin
- cryo-ET
- kinesin
- myosin
- motor proteins
- macromolecular machines
- ATPase
- AAA+ ATPases
- Experimental organism
- human
- mouse
- S. cerevisiae
- viruses
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Agnieszka Chacinska
University of Warsaw, Poland
- Expertise
- Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- biogenesis
- organelles
- mitochondria
- protein transport
- proteasome
- protein degradation
- protein synthesis
- Experimental organism
- S. cerevisiae
- mammalian cells
- nematode
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Henry M Colecraft
Columbia University, United States
- Expertise
- Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- ion channels
- ion channel regulation
- voltage-gated calcium channels
- ubiquitin
- ion channelopathy
- Experimental organism
- human
- mouse
- rat
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Edna Cukierman
Fox Chase Cancer Center, United States
- Expertise
- Cancer Biology
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- tumor microenvironment
- fibroblastic cells
- cancer associated fibroblasts
- extracellular matrix fibrillogenesis
- extracellular matrix function
- wound healing
- fibrosis
- cancer triad
- fibroblastic cell function
- stromagenesis
- desmoplasia
- pancreatic cancer
- epithelial cancers
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Michael Czech
University of Massachusetts Medical School, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- insulin
- metabolism
- lipid-protein interactions
- signal transduction
- membranes
- adipose
- obesity
- insulin resistance
- diabetes
- Experimental organism
- human
- mouse
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Weiwei Dang
Baylor College of Medicine, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Research focus
- aging
- epigenetics
- histone modifications
- chromatin
- chromatin remodeling
- yeast
- yeast aging
- stem cell aging
- Experimental organism
- S. cerevisiae
- C. elegans
- mouse
- human
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Roger J Davis
University of Massachusetts Medical School, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Research focus
- signal transduction
- Experimental organism
- mouse
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Ralph J DeBerardinis
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, United States
- Expertise
- Cancer Biology
- Cell Biology
- Medicine
- Research focus
- metabolism
- cancer
- genetics
- medicine
- pediatrics
- genomics
- mitochondria
- 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
- Experimental organism
- mouse
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Jennifer DeLuca
Colorado State University, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- mitosis
- cell division
- cell cycle
- kinetochores
- microtubules
- spindle
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Danelle Devenport
Princeton University, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Developmental Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- cell polarity
- planar cell polarity
- epidermis
- skin
- oriented cell divisions
- morphogenesis
- epithelia
- Experimental organism
- mammals
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Ivan Dikic
Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
- Expertise
- Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- ubiquitination
- autophagy
- bacterial effectors
- Legionella
- ER-phagy
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Volker Dötsch
Goethe University, Germany
- Expertise
- Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- membrane protein
- signal transduction
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Joaquin Espinosa
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, United States
- Expertise
- Cancer Biology
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- cancer biology
- apoptosis
- p53
- tumor suppressors
- trisomy 21
- Down syndrome
- gene expression
- chromatin
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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
- Experimental organism
- mouse
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Lydia W S Finley
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Cancer Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- cell metabolism
- cancer
- stem cells
- epigenetics
- cell fate
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Adam Frost
University of California, San Francisco, United States
- Expertise
- Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
- Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- cryo-EM
- electron cryo-microscopy
- membranes
- membrane remodeling
- proteostasis
- stress responses
- translation
- mitochondria
- nuclear envelope
- intracellular trafficking
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Maribel Isabel Geli
Institut de Biología Molecular de Barcelona (IBMB), Spain
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- actin cytoskeleton
- endocytic pathway
- type I myosins
- phosphoinositides
- Experimental organism
- yeast
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Amy S Gladfelter
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- cell cycle control
- septin cytoskeleton
- phase separation
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Jan Gruber
Yale-NUS College, Singapore
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Research focus
- aging
- molecular mechanisms of aging
- mitochondria
- damage
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Jing-Dong Jackie Han
Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
- Expertise
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Genetics and Genomics
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- genomics
- functional genomics
- disease-related networks
- genetic networks
- aging
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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
- Experimental organism
- human
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Brandon Harvey
NIDA/NIH, Intramural Research Program, United States
- Expertise
- Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
- Cell Biology
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Immunology and Inflammation
- Neuroscience
- Research focus
- ER stress
- ER calcium
- neuroinflammation
- gene therapy
- cellular neuroscience
- gene delivery
- Experimental organism
- rat
- mouse
- human cells
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Silke Hauf
Virginia Tech, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- mitosis
- cell cycle
- quantitative biology
- spindle
- Experimental organism
- S. pombe
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P Robin Hiesinger
Institute for Biology Free University Berlin, Germany
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Developmental Biology
- Research focus
- synaptogenesis
- synaptic function
- synaptic maintenance
- endocytosis
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Julie Hollien
University of Utah, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- unfolded protein response
- protein folding and aggregation
- mRNA stability
- mRNA decay
- endoplasmic reticulum protein folding
- lysosome trafficking
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Tiffany Horng
ShanghaiTech University, China
- Expertise
- Immunology and Inflammation
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- immunometabolism
- macrophage biology
- intermediary metabolism
- macrophage metabolism
- mitochondria
- Experimental organism
- mouse
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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
- cancer
- signal transduction
- phosphorylation
- ubiquitylation
- sumoylation
- Experimental organism
- mouse
- yeast
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Arezu Jahani-Asl
McGill University, Canada
- Expertise
- Cancer Biology
- Cell Biology
- Developmental Biology
- Research focus
- glioblastoma
- stem cells
- mitochondria
- transcription
- mental retardation
- neurodegeneration
- cancer
- Experimental organism
- mouse
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Megan C King
Yale School of Medicine, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Genetics and Genomics
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- nuclear envelope
- nuclear lamins
- LINC complex
- nuclear mechanics
- DNA repair
- genome organisation
- Experimental organism
- mouse
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Melanie Königshoff
University of Colorado, United States
- Expertise
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Medicine
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- lung regeneration
- wnt signaling
- pulmonary fibrosis
- chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- epithelial cell biology
- Experimental organism
- human
- mouse
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Benoît Kornmann
University of Oxford, United Kingdom
- Expertise
- Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
- Cell Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- membrane contact sites
- mitochondria
- membrane dynamics
- membrane trafficking
- phospholipids
- Experimental organism
- S. cerevisiae
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Michael Kozlov
Tel Aviv University, Israel
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- modeling membrane shapes
- membrane curvature
- membrane fusion
- membrane fission
- membrane bending by proteins
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Melike Lakadamyali
University of Pennsylvania, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- super-resolution microscopy
- single molecule biophysics
- chromosome structure
- cytoskeleton
- motor proteins
- intracellular transport
- Experimental organism
- human
- mouse
- mammalian cells
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Pekka Lappalainen
University of Helsinki, Finland
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- actin
- cytoskeleton
- cell migration
- endocytosis
- mechanosensation
- Experimental organism
- S. cerevisiae
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Michael Laub
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- bacterial cell cycle
- toxin-antitoxin systems
- signal transduction
- protein evolution
- chromosome organisation
- Experimental organism
- E. coli
- C. crescentus
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Petra Anne Levin
Washington University in St. Louis, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- bacterial cytoskeleton
- temporal and spatial control of cell division
- cell size control
- cell cycle dynamics in bacterial systems
- Experimental organism
- B. subtilis
- E. coli
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Hening Lin
Cornell University, United States
- Expertise
- Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- sirtuin
- PARP
- diphthamide
- post-translational modifications
- proteomics
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Adam Linstedt
Carnegie Mellon University, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- protein secretion
- secretory and endocytic pathways
- Golgi biogenesis
- protein trafficking
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Polina V Lishko
University of California, Berkeley, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- ion channels
- sperm cell
- mitochondria
- mammalian reproduction
- signal transduction
- ion homeostasis
- reproductive aging
- Experimental organism
- human
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Sebastian Lourido
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, United States
- Expertise
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Cell Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
- Research focus
- calcium signaling
- host-pathogen interactions
- genetic screening
- protein kinases
- genomics
- quantitative proteomics
- Apicomplexan parasites
- Experimental organism
- T. gondii
- P. falciparum
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Jens Lüders
Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Spain
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- microtubule nucleation
- centrosome
- centrioles
- mitotic spindle
- mitosis
- MTOCs
- cilia
- microcephaly
- cytoskeleton
- Experimental organism
- mouse
- human
-
Yuting Ma
Suzhou Institute of Systems Medicine, China
- Expertise
- Cancer Biology
- Immunology and Inflammation
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- tumor immunology
- immunotherapy
- tumor microenvironment
- stress responses
- neuroendocrine-immune crosstalk
- cell death
-
Kay F Macleod
University of Chicago, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Cancer Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- autophagy
- mitochondria
- stress responses
- tumor progression and metastasis
- tumor stem cells
- hepatic steatosis and hepatocellular carcinoma
- breast cancer
- pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma
-
Mark Marsh
University College London, United Kingdom
- Expertise
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- virus entry
- membrane trafficking
- cellular mechanisms of viral restriction
- viral pathogenesis
- HIV
- Alphaviruses
- Flaviviruses
- endocytosis
- virus receptors
- Experimental organism
- viruses
-
Adèle L Marston
University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Expertise
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Cell Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- chromosome segregation
- meiosis
- mitosis
- chromosome organisation
- cohesin
- kinetochore
- centromere
- yeast
- oocytes
- Experimental organism
- S. cerevisiae
- S. pombe
-
Satyajit Mayor
National Center for Biological Sciences, India
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- mechanisms of membrane organization
- endocytosis
- construction of signalling complexes
- regulation of membrane trafficking
- plasma membrane
-
Sheila McCormick
University of California, Berkeley, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Plant Biology
- Research focus
- plant reproductive development
- genetics
- plant gametophyte development
- receptor tyrosine kinases
- Experimental organism
- A. thaliana
- tomato
- maize
-
Heather E McFarlane
University of Toronto, Canada
- Expertise
- Plant Biology
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- plant cell biology
- plant cell walls
- cell wall signalling
- protein trafficking
- secretion
- live cell imaging
- electron microscopy
- Experimental organism
- A. thaliana
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Alphee Michelot
Institut de Biologie du Développement, France
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- cytoskeleton
- actin dynamics
- motility
- endocytosis
- cytokinesis
- actin mechanics
- energy conversion
- force transduction
- Experimental organism
- S. cerevisiae
-
Elizabeth A Miller
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, United Kingdom
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
- Research focus
- membrane traffic
- endoplasmic reticulum
- protein quality control
- COPII vesicles
- Experimental organism
- S. cerevisiae
-
Noboru Mizushima
University of Tokyo, Japan
- Expertise
- Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- protein degradation
- lysosome
- autophagy
- protein/organelle degradation
- autophagosome
- Experimental organism
- mouse
- yeast
-
Jacqueline Monaghan
Queen's University, Canada
- Expertise
- Plant Biology
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- plant immunology
- plant molecular biology
- plant immune signal transduction
- plant genetics
- Experimental organism
- A. thaliana
-
Shaeri Mukherjee
University of California, San Francisco, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- membrane traffic
- host-pathogen interactions
- endoplasmic reticulum
- Experimental organism
- L. pneumophila
-
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
-
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
- A. thaliana
-
Lucy O'Brien
Stanford University, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Developmental Biology
- Research focus
- cell cycle dynamics
- stem cells
- organ size type issues
- midgut
- Experimental organism
- D. melanogaster
-
Kassandra Ori-McKenney
University of California , United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- Microtubule cytoskeleton
- microtubule-associated proteins
- molecular motors
- dynein
- kinesin
- neuronal development
- single-molecule imaging
-
Duojia Pan
UT Southwestern Medical Center, United States
- Expertise
- Cancer Biology
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- growth control
- tumor suppressors
- oncogenes
- Hippo signaling
- transcription
- regeneration
- Experimental organism
- D. melanogaster
- mouse
-
Junmin Pan
Tsinghua University, China
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- cilia
- flagella
- centrosome
- basal body
- microtubules
- motors
- Experimental organism
- C. reinhardtii
-
Maddy Parsons
King's College London, United Kingdom
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- adhesion
- migration
- cytoskeleton
- microscopy
- signaling
- cancer
- fibrosis
-
Lotte Pedersen
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- primary cilia
- ciliogenesis
- centrosomes
- intraflagellar transport
- cilia-mediated signalling
- kinesin-3 motors
- Experimental organism
- mammalian cells
- C. reinhardtii
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Jon Pines
Institute of Cancer Research, 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
- Experimental organism
- human
-
Lynne-Marie Postovit
University of Alberta, Canada
- Expertise
- Cancer Biology
- Cell Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- cellular plasticity
- tumour microenvironment
- hypoxia
- stem cells
- metastasis
- ovarian cancer
- breast cancer
-
Ambra Pozzi
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- integrins
- extracellular matrix
- mechanisms of fibrosis
- receptor tyrosine kinases
- kidney
- cell signalling and translation
- Experimental organism
- human
- mouse
-
Benjamin L Prosser
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Physics of Living Systems
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Research focus
- cardiac function
- muscle
- cardiomyocytes
- mechanotransduction
- cytoskeleton
- microtubules
- sarcomere
-
Arun Radhakrishnan
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, United States
- Expertise
- Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
- Cell Biology
- Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
- Research focus
- lipid sensors
- cholesterol
- sphingomyelin
- cholesterol transport
- SREBP
- Scap
- cholesterol homeostasis
- endoplasmic reticulum
- Experimental organism
- E. coli
- human
- mouse
-
Mani Ramaswami
Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
- Expertise
- Neuroscience
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- neurogenetics
- neural circuits
- olfaction
- learning and memory
- mechanisms of neuronal translational control
- mRNA localization
- synaptic plasticity
- Experimental organism
- D. melanogaster
- insects
-
Michael Rape
University of California, Berkeley, United States
- Expertise
- Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- stem cells
- ubiquitin
- ubiquitylation
- degradation
- proteasome
- E3 ligase
- p97/VCP
- differentiation
- quality control
- Experimental organism
- human
- mouse
- Xenopus
-
Peter Ratcliffe
University of Oxford, United Kingdom
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Medicine
- Research focus
- hypoxia
- signaling
- hypoxia inducible factor
- prolyl hydroxylase
- oxygenase
- cysteine dioxygenase
- von Hippel-Landau
- N-degron
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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
- cytoskeleton
- intracellular transport
- microtubules
- actin
- dynein
- kinesin
- myosin
- Experimental organism
- S. cerevisiae
- Aspergillus
- human
-
Jeremy Reiter
University of California, San Francisco, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Developmental Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- cilia
-
Margaret S Robinson
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- membrane traffic
- coated vesicles
- cell biology
- endocytosis
- endosomes
- golgi
- clathrin
- Experimental organism
- human
- mammalian cells
-
Jody Rosenblatt
King's College London, United Kingdom
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Cancer Biology
- Research focus
- apoptosis
- mitosis
- cell extrusion
- epithelial
- homeostasis
- morphogenesis
- cancer cell biology
-
Alejandro Sanchez Alvarado
Stowers Institute for Medical Research, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- regeneration
- stem cells
- Experimental organism
- planaria
-
Apurva Sarin
Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine, India
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Immunology and Inflammation
- Research focus
- apoptosis
- Notch1
- signal transduction
- T cells
- Experimental organism
- mouse
-
Randy Schekman
Founding Editor-in-Chief, HHMI, University of California, Berkeley, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- membrane assembly
- vesicular trafficking
- protein transport
- animal and human cell biology
- Experimental organism
- S. cerevisiae
-
Maya Schuldiner
Weizmann Institute, Israel
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- organelles
- contact sites
- targeting
- translocation
- high content screening
- functional genomics
- Experimental organism
- yeast
-
Ranjan Sen
National Institute on Aging, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Immunology and Inflammation
- Research focus
- B cell biology
-
Tricia Serio
The University of Massachusetts, Amherst, United States
- Expertise
- Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- prion
- protein misfolding
- chaperones
- amyloid
- Experimental organism
- S. cerevisiae
-
Mahak Sharma
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali (IISER), India
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- lysosome
- lysosomal positioning
- vesicular transport
- Rab and Arl GTPases
- Arl8
- HOPS complex
- Rab effectors
- endocytic recycling
- Experimental organism
- human cells
- mouse cells
-
Kang Shen
Stanford University, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Neuroscience
- Research focus
- synapse
- neuronal cytoskeleton
- neuronal cell biology
- developmental neurobiology
-
Akira Shinohara
Osaka University, Japan
- Expertise
- Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- recombination
- DSB repair
- meiosis
- chromosome
- DNA damage response
- Experimental organism
- S. cerevisiae
- human
- mouse
-
Robert H Singer
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Research focus
- transcription
- mRNA localization
-
Nahum Sonenberg
McGill University, Canada
- Expertise
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Neuroscience
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- biochemistry
- mRNA translation
- cancer
- autism
- learning and memory
- 4EBP
- eIF4E
- translational control
- Experimental organism
- mouse
- D. melanogaster
-
Jonathan P Staley
University of Chicago, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Research focus
- splicing
- gene expression
- RNA
- spliceosome
- Experimental organism
- S. cerevisiae
- mammalian cells
-
Thomas Surrey
The Francis Crick Institute, United Kingdom
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
- Research focus
- cytoskeleton
- microtubules
- motor proteins
- self-organization
- cell division
- mitotic spindle
- in vitro reconstitution
- fluorescence microscopy
- Experimental organism
- human
- Xenopus
-
J Paul Taylor
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, United States
- Expertise
- Neuroscience
- Cell Biology
- Medicine
- Research focus
- liquid-liquid phase separation
- RNA granules
- biomolecular condensates
- neurodegeneration
- Experimental organism
- D. melanogaster
- human
-
Kelly Ten Hagen
National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institutes of Health, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- glycobiology
- fly physiology
- Experimental organism
- D. melanogaster
-
Peter Tontonoz
University of California, Los Angeles, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Medicine
- Research focus
- lipid metabolism
- cholesterol
- nuclear receptors
- adipocytes
- obesity
- atherosclerosis
- diabetes
- Experimental organism
- mouse
-
Ivan Topisirovic
Jewish General Hospital, Canada
- Expertise
- Cancer Biology
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- protein synthesis
- mRNA translation
- signal transduction
- post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression
- metabolism
-
Patrik Verstreken
VIB-KU Leuven, Belgium
- Expertise
- Neuroscience
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- neurodegeneration
- synaptic communication
- vesicle recycling at synapses
- Experimental organism
- D. melanogaster
- human
- mouse
-
David Wallach
The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Immunology and Inflammation
- Research focus
- apoptosis
- caspase
- cell death
- necroptosis
- NF-kB
- TNF
- TNF-family
-
Xiaochen Wang
Institute of Biophysics Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- lysosome
- cell hemostasis
- phagocytosis
- apoptotic cells
- development
- stress responses
- Experimental organism
- C. elegans
- mammalian cells
-
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
- C. albicans
-
Karsten Weis
ETH Zürich, Switzerland
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- nuclear transport
- nuclear pore
- mRNA transport
- Experimental organism
- S. cerevisiae
-
Julie P I Welburn
University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
- Research focus
- kinesin motors
- microtubules
- kinetochores
- kinases
- cell division
- in vitro reconstitution
- cytoskeleton
-
Jie Xiao
Johns Hopkins University, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- single molecule biophysics
- bacteria
- cell wall
- cell division
- gene regulation
- chromosome conformation
- Experimental organism
- B. subtilis
- E. coli
- human
-
Yukiko M Yamashita
HHMI, University of Michigan, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Developmental Biology
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- stem cell niche
- asymmetric cell division
- satellite DNA
- germline immortality
- ribosomal DNA
- Experimental organism
- D. melanogaster
-
Li Yu
Tsinghua University, China
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- migrasome
- autophagy
- lysosome
- membrane shaping
-
Yi Arial Zeng
Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, China
- Expertise
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- tissue stem cells
- organoids
- wnt signaling
- mammary development
- hormone
- Experimental organism
- mouse
-
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
