Editors for Cell Biology

We aim to publish significant research in all areas of cell biology, including but not limited to studies on cell cycle, cell polarity and fate, nuclear and chromosome organization and segregation/division, signal transduction, and vesicle transport. Read the latest research in this subject area.

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Senior editors

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

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.
Jonathan A Cooper

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, United States

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
Neuroscience

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.
Ivan Dikic

Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany

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.
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 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.
Andrea Musacchio

Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Germany

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
Chromosomes and Gene Expression

Research focus
kinetochore
cell cycle
centromere
spindle assembly checkpoint

Experimental organism
human
S. cerevisiae

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.
Randy Schekman

Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, Berkeley, United States

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

Experimental organism
S. cerevisiae

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).
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
transcription mechanisms
gene regulation
chromatin
mRNA decay
biological function
cellular transformation
cancer stem cells

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

Mohan Balasubramanian

Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory (Singapore) & University of Warwick, United Kingdom

Expertise
Cell Biology

Research focus
cytokinesis
cell cycle
cytoskeleton

Experimental organism
S. pombe
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
Philippe Bastiaens

Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Germany

Expertise
Cell Biology

Research focus
systems biology
functional microscopy
signal transduction
quantitative biology
biosensors

Experimental organism
human
mouse
rat
S. cerevisiae
Dominique Bergmann

Stanford University, United States

Expertise
Cell Biology
Plant Biology

Research focus
cell polarity
plant development

Experimental organism
arabidopsis thaliana
Margaret Buckingham

Institut Pasteur, France

Expertise
Cell Biology
Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

Research focus
cardiogenesis
muscle stem cells

Experimental organism
mouse
Christopher G Burd

Yale University School of Medicine, United States

Expertise
Cell Biology

Research focus
endocytosis
secretion
organelle biogenesis
phosphoinositide signaling

Experimental organism
human
S. cerevisiae
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
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

Experimental organism
human
mouse
Roger Davis

University of Massachusetts Medical School, United States

Expertise
Cell Biology
Chromosomes and Gene Expression

Research focus
signal transduction

Experimental organism
mouse
Ralph J DeBerardinis

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, United States

Expertise
Cancer Biology
Cell Biology
Human Biology and Medicine

Research focus
cancer
metabolism
metabolic pathways
medicine
genetics

Experimental organism
human
mouse
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
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
Volker Dötsch

Goethe University, Germany

Expertise
Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
Cell Biology

Research focus
membrane proteins
signal transduction
Joaquin Espinosa

University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, United States

Expertise
Cancer Biology
Cell Biology
Human Biology and Medicine

Research focus
cancer biology
apoptosis
p53
tumor suppressors
trisomy 21
Down syndrome
gene expression
chromatin
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
Matthew Freeman

University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Expertise
Cell Biology
Biochemistry and Chemical Biology

Research focus
cell signalling
trafficking
quality control

Experimental organism
Drosophila
J Wade Harper

Harvard Medical School, United States

Expertise
Cell Biology

Research focus
protein turnover
ubiquitin
autophagy
signal transduction
protein interactions

Experimental organism
human
Ramanujan S Hegde

MRC 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
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
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
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
Michael Kozlov

Tel Aviv University, Israel

Expertise
Cell Biology

Research focus
modeling membrane shapes
membrane curvature
membrane fusion
membrane fission
membrane bending by proteins
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
membrane proteins
cryo-EM

Experimental organism
E. coli
S. cerevisiae
Pekka Lappalainen

University of Helsinki, Finland

Expertise
Cell Biology

Research focus
actin
cytoskeleton-membrane interplay
cell migration
Michael Laub

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States

Expertise
Cell Biology
Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Research focus
Bacterial cell cycle
bacterial systems biology
signal transduction
protein evolution
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
Joan Massagué

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, United States

Expertise
Cancer Biology
Cell Biology
Human Biology and Medicine

Research focus
cell signalling
cell fate
tumor heterogeneity
metastasis

Experimental organism
human tissue
mouse
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
Noboru Mizushima

University of Tokyo, Japan

Expertise
Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
Cell Biology

Research focus
protein degradation
lysosome
autophagy
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
arabidopsis thaliana
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
Maddy Parsons

King's College London, United Kingdom

Expertise
Cell Biology

Research focus
cell motility
cell migration
adhesion receptor signalling
cancer metastasis
integrin signalling
Suzanne R Pfeffer

Stanford University, United States

Expertise
Cell Biology
Human Biology and Medicine

Research focus
membrane traffic
endosomes
lysosomes
golgi complex
secretory pathway
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
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
Nick J Proudfoot

Oxford University, United Kingdom

Expertise
Cell Biology
Chromosomes and Gene Expression

Research focus
mRNA processing
transcription

Experimental organism
human
S. cerevisiae
S. pombe
Arun Radhakrishnan

University of Texas 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
Michael Rape

University of California, Berkeley, United States

Expertise
Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
Cell Biology

Research focus
ubiquitin
mitosis

Experimental organism
human
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
mouse
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

Experimental organism
S. cerevisiae
aspergillus
Danny Reinberg

New York University School of Medicine, United States

Expertise
Cell Biology
Chromosomes and Gene Expression

Research focus
epigenetics
chromatin biology
chromatin
histones
transcription

Experimental organism
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

Experimental organism
human
mammalian cells
David Ron

Cambridge University, United Kingdom

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
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
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
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
Kang Shen

Stanford University, United States

Expertise
Cell Biology
Neuroscience

Research focus
synapse
neuronal cytoskeleton
neuronal cell biology
developmental neurobiology
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
protein synthesis
cell signalling and translation
translational control of memory
translation

Experimental organism
mouse
Jonathan P Staley

University of Chicago, United States

Expertise
Cell Biology
Chromosomes and Gene Expression

Research focus
catalysis
proofreading
RNA dynamics
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
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

Experimental organism
mouse
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
Xiaochen Wang

Institute of Biophysics Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Expertise
Cell Biology

Research focus
lysosome homeostasis
Phagocytosis

Experimental organism
C. elegans
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
Karsten Weis

ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Expertise
Cell Biology

Research focus
nuclear transport
nuclear pore
mRNA transport

Experimental organism
S. cerevisiae
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
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