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Lawrence Lifshitz, Ph.D.

Academic Role: Associate Professor

Faculty Appointment(s) In:
   Program in Molecular Medicine

Other Affiliation(s):
   Program in Neuroscience

Recent Publications

ZhuGe, R., K.E. Fogarty, R.A. Tuft, L.M. Lifshitz, K. Sayer, and J.V. Walsh, Jr.  Dynamics of Signaling between Ca²⁺ Sparks and Ca²⁺ activated K⁺ Channels Studied with a Novel Image-based Method for Direct Intracellular Measurement of Ryanodine receptor Ca²⁺ Current.  J. Gen. Physiol., 116:845-864, 2000.

Kirber, M.T., E.F. Etter, K.A. Bellvé, L.M. Lifshitz, R.A. Tuft, F.S. Fay, J.V. Walsh, Jr., and K.E. Fogarty.  The Relationship of Ca²⁺ Sparks to STOCs Studied with 2D and 3D Imaging in Feline Oesophageal Smooth Muscle Cells.  J. Physiol., 531(2):315-327, 2001.

Patki, V., J. Buxton, A. Chawla, L. Lifshitz, K. Fogarty, W. Carrington, R. Tuft, and S. Corvera.  Insulin action on GLUT4 traffic visualized in single 3T3-L1 adipocytes using ultra-fast microscopy.  Molec. Biol. Cell, 12(1):129-141, 2001.

Stachelek, S., R. Tuft, L. Lifshitz, D. Leonard, A. Farwell, J. Leonard.  Real-time Visualization of Processive, Myosin 5a mediated Vesicle Movement in Living Astrocytes.  J. Biol. Chem., 276(38):35652-35659, 2001.

Miyazaki, K., Yano, T., Schmidt, D.J., Tokui, T., Shibata, M., Lifshitz, L.M., Kimura, S., Tuft, R.A., and Ikebe, M.  Rho dependent agonist induced spatio-temporal change in myosin phosphorylation in smooth muscle cells.   J. Biol. Chem., 277(1) :725-734, 2002.

Zou, H., Lifshitz, L.M., Tuft, R.A., Fogarty, K.E., and Singer, J.J.  Visualization of Ca²⁺ entry through single stretch-activated cation channels.  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 99(9) :6404-6409, 2002.

Lawe, D., A. Chawla, E. Merithew, J. Dumas, W. Carrington, K. Fogarty, L. Lifshitz, R. Tuft, D.Lambright, and S. Corvera.  Sequential roles for phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate and Rab5 in tethering and fusion of early endosomes via their interaction with EEA1.  J. Biol. Chem., 277(10) :8611-8617, 2002.

Lawe, D.C., Sitouah, N., Hayes, S., Chawla, A., Virbasius, J.V., Tuft, R., Fogarty, K., Lifshitz, L., Lambright, D., and Corvera, S.  Essential role of Ca²⁺/calmodulin in Early Endosome Antigen-1 localization.  Mol. Biol. Cell, 14(7):2935-45, 2003. 

Femino, A.M., Fogarty, K., Lifshitz, L.M., Carrington, W., and Singer, R.H.  Visualization of single molecules of mRNA in situ.  Methods Enzymol., 361:245-304, 2003.

Zou, H., Lifshitz, L.M., Tuft, R.A., Fogarty, K.E., and Singer, J.J.  Using total fluorescence increase (signal mass) to determine the Ca²⁺ current underlying localized Ca²⁺ events.  J. Gen. Physiol., 124 :259-272, 2004.

Huang, S., Lifshitz, L., Patki-Kamath, V., Tuft, R., Fogarty, K., and Czech, M.P.  Phosphatidylinositol-4,5-bisphosphate-rich plasma membrane patches organize active zones of endocytosis and ruffling in cultured adipocytes.   Mol. Cell. Biol., 24(20) :9102-23, 2004.

ZhuGe, R., Fogarty, K.E., Baker, S.P., McCarron, J.G., Tuft, R.A., Lifshitz, L.M., and Walsh, Jr., J.V.  Ca²⁺ spark sites in smooth muscle cells are numerous and differ in number of ryanodine recepors, BK channels and coupling ratio between them.  Am. J. Physiol., Cell Physiol., 287(6) :C1577-88, 2004.

DeCrescenzo, V., ZhuGe, R., Velazquez-Marrero, C., Lifshitz, L.M., Custer, E., Carmichael, J., Lai, F.A., Tuft, R.A., Fogarty, K.E., Lemos, J.R., Walsh, Jr., J.V.  Ca²⁺ syntillas, miniature Ca²⁺ release events in terminals of hypothalamic neurons, are increased in frequency by depolarization in the absence of Ca²⁺ influx.  J. Neurosci. 24(5) :1226-35, 2004.

Office: Biotech 2 Suite 114
Phone: 508 856 3392
E-mail: Lawrence.Lifshitz@umassmed.edu
Keywords: Biophysics, Intracellular Trafficking, Cell Dynamics, Bioinformatics, Imaging and Microscopy

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