The following laboratories are interested in muscle, cell motility and cytoskeletal.
Regulation of cell proliferation and differentiation by the extracellular matrix, the actin cytoskeleton, and integrins |
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| Stephen M. Baylor |
Excitation-contraction coupling; intracellular calcium signaling. |
| Erfei Bi |
Development of cell polarity and control of cytokinesis in budding yeast. |
| Janis Burkhardt |
Regulation and function of the T cell cytoskeleton. |
| Samuel Chacko |
Pathobiology of smooth muscle, signal transduction, myosin, thin filament-associated protein caldesmon, smooth muscle cell differentiation, translational research. |
| Christopher S. Chen |
Regulation of angiogenesis, cancer growth, and stem cell differentiation by adhesive and mechanical cues; Mechanochemical signal transduction; Cadherin and integrin signaling; Rho GTPases and cytoskeletal processes; Cell and tissue engineering. |
| Peter Davies |
Biomechanics in Vascular Biology/Pathology, Hemodynamics and Atherosclerosis, Vascular Cell Communication, Cytoskeletal and membrane biophysics. |
| Horace M. DeLisser |
Endothelial Cell Adhesion and Motility. |
| Dennis Discher |
Cell and nuclear membrane structure-function; Adhesion mechanisms and responses of cells; Phagocyte recognition processes; Membrane skeleton and cytoskeleton; Diseases ranging from muscular dystrophy to anemias to athersclerosis; Drug delivery. |
| Yale Goldman |
Relating the structural changes to enzymatic reactions and mechanical steps of the energy transduction mechanism by mapping the real-time domain motions of the motor proteins and ribosomal elongation factors. |
| Wei Guo |
The molecular basis for polarized exocytosis and how exocytosis contributes to polarized cell growth and morphogenesis. |
| Erika L. Holzbaur |
Microtubule-based motility. |
| Paul Janmey |
Cytoskeleton, phosphoinositide signalling, cell mechanics. |
| Anna S. Kashina |
Protein modifications, mouse genetics, cancer, cytoskeleton, cardiovascular development, angiogenesis. |
| Frank Luca |
Yeast and mammalian cell cycle regulation; Cytokinesis. Daughter cell-specific gene expression; Polarized growth Mitotic Exit Network (MEN); Regulation of Ace2-dependent transcription and Morphogenesis (RAM). |
| John Murray |
Cell biology, structural biology, cytoskeleton, motility, cell division |
| Jordan S. Orange |
Directed secretion at the cytolytic immunological synapse; Role of NF-kB activation in cytolytic function |
| Michael Ostap |
Molecular mechanisms of cell motility. |
| Tatyana Svitkina |
Roles of the cytoskeleton in cell motility. |
| Phong Tran |
The cytoskeleton and cellular pattern formation. |
| John W. Weisel |
Intermolecular and cellular interactions in blood clotting, fibrinolysis, and atherosclerosis studied by molecular biophysical methods. |
