Investigators in the Cell Dynamics Group

The Cell Dynamics group consists of a number of highly interactive laboratories studying cell motility, cell architecture, and/or the cytoskeleton.  Each investigator has a primary appointment in one of several academic departments.  The Program in Cell Dynamics serves to unite the shared research interests of these investigators under a common umbrella in order to foster interaction, collaboration, and rapid communication of research advances.  Forums sponsored by the Program include a weekly journal club, a bi-weekly research data club, and a seminar series.

All investigators are available for both graduate and postdoctoral studies.  For information on the research and postdoctoral opportunities in each of the individual labs, click on the investigator's name below.  For general information on graduate studies, contact the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences.

Participating investigators and their interests are as follows:

Zheng-Zheng Bao: Molecular Mechanisms in Vertebrate Development
Roger Craig: Molecular Structure of Muscle
Stephen Doxsey: Mitotic Spindle and Centrosome Function
Kirsten Hagstrom: Chromosome Structure and Segregation During Cell Division
Mitsuo Ikebe: Function, Regulation of Myosin Superfamily
Y. Tony Ip: Regulatory mechanisms in Drosophila innate immunity
John Leong: Interactions of pathogenic bacteria with mammalian cells
Elizabeth Luna: Membrane-Skeleton in Motile Cells
Dannel McCollum: Cell Cycle, Cytokinesis in Yeast
Craig Mello: Regulation of gene expression during early embryogenesis in C. elegans
Mary Munson: Regulation of vesicle targeting and fusion
Gregory Pazour: Intraflagellar transport (IFT) proteins in eukaryotic ciliary assembly
Thoru Pederson: RNA traffic in eukaryotic cells, RNA processing, RNA-protein interactions
Peter Pryciak: Signal Transduction and Cell Polarity
Greenfield Sluder: Mitosis, Checkpoints, Centrosome
William Theurkauf: Drosophilia Cytoskeleton, Mitosis
Yu-li Wang: Cytoskeleton Dynamics in living cells
George Witman: Motor Proteins in Cilia and Flagella
Zuoshang Xu: Neuronal Cytoskeleton, ALS mice

Both beginning and senior postdoctorals are invited to apply. Applicants for postdoctoral positions in one or more of the listed laboratories should send a curriculum vitae, description of research experience, and names and addresses of three references to the investigator(s) of interest.

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