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William Theurkauf, Ph.D.

Academic Role: Professor

Faculty Appointment(s) In:
   Program in Molecular Medicine

Other Affiliation(s):
   Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
   Cell Dynamics Group
   Interdisciplinary Graduate Program

Selected publications

Sibon, O. C. M., V. Stevenson and W. E. Theurkauf. (1997). Checkpoint control at the Drosophila midblastula transition. Nature 388, 93-97.

Theurkauf, W. E. and T. I. Hazelrigg. (1998). In vivo analysis of cytoplasmic transport during Drosophila oogenesis: characterization of a multi-step anterior localization pathway. Development 125, 3655-3666.

Sibon, O. C.M., A. Laurençon, R. S. Hawley, and William E. Theurkauf (1999). The Drosophila ATM homologue Mei-41 has an essential checkpoint function at the midblastula transition. Current Biology 9, 302-312.

Sibon, O. C. M., A. Kelkar, W. Lemstra and W. E. Theurkauf. (2000). DNA replication/damage-dependent centrosome inactivation in Drosophila embryos. Nature Cell Biology 2, 90-95.

Groisman, I., Y-S. Huang, R. Mendez, Q. Cao, W. E. Theurkauf, and J. D. Richter. (2000). CPEB, Maskin, and Cyclin B1 mRNA at the Mitotic Apparatus: Implications for Local Translational Control of Cell Division. Cell 103, 435-447.

Stevenson, V., J. Kramer, J. Kuhn and W. E. Theurkauf. (2001). Centrosomes and the Scrambled protein coordinate microtubule-independent actin reorganization in Drosophila syncytial blastoderm embryos. Nature Cell Biology 3, 68-75.

Richter, J. and Theurkauf, W. E. (2001). Development: the message is in the translation. Science 293, 60-62.

Theurkauf, W. E. (2001). TACCing down the spindle poles. Nature Cell Biology 3, E159-161.

Cha, B.-J., Koppetsch, B. and Theurkauf, W. E. (2001). In vivo analysis of bicoid mRNA localization reveals a novel microtubule-dependent anterior axis specification pathway. Cell, 106, 35-46.

Stevenson, V., Hudson, A., Cooley, L. and Theurkauf, W. E. (2002). Arp2/3-dependent pseudocleavage furrow assembly in syncytial Drosophila embryos. Current Biology, 12, 1-20.

Cha, B.-J., Koppetsch, B., and Theurkauf, W. E. (2002). Kinesin-dependent cortical exclusion restricts pole plasm to the oocyte posterior. Nature Cell Biology, 4, 592-598.

Arn, E. A., Cha, B.-J., Theurkauf, W. E., and Macdonald, P. M. (2003). Recognition of the bicoid mRNA localization signal by a large protein complex containing Swallow, Nod and RNA binding proteins. Developmental Cell, 4, 41-51.

Takada, S., Kelkar, A., and Theurkauf, W. E. (2003). Drosophila Chk2 kinase links centrosome function to genome integrity. Cell, Accepted.

Office: Bio4 312E
Phone: 508-856-4900
E-mail: William.Theurkauf@umassmed.edu
Keywords: Genetic Systems, Cancer Biology, Developmental Biology

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