Katherine Phelps, PhD

Professor
Cell Biology
Graduate Program: Cell Regulation

Contact Information

UT Southwestern Medical Center
5323 Harry Hines Boulevard
Dallas, Texas 75390

Office Phone: 214-648-2570
Office Fax: 214-648-8694

kate.phelps@utsouthwestern.edu

Education

Graduate SchoolUniversity of Colorado at Boulder (1981)
UndergraduateYale University (1975)

Publications

Featured
Mechanism of Ca2+-dependent nuclear accumulation of calmodulin.

Liao B, Paschal BM, Luby-Phelps K. , Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. , May 1999; (96):6217-6222

Featured
Autophagy gene-dependent clearance of apoptotic cells during embryonic development.

Qu X, Zou Z, Sun Q, Luby-Phelps K, Cheng P, Hogan RN, Gilpin C, Levine B. , Cell , March 2007; (128):931-946

Featured
A novel fluorescence ratiometric method confirms the low solvent viscosity of the cytoplasm.

Luby-Phelps K, Mujumdar S, Mujumdar RB, Ernst LA, Galbraith W, Waggoner AS. , Biophys J. , July 1993; (65):236-242

Featured
Cytoarchitecture and physical properties of cytoplasm: volume, viscosity, diffusion, intracellular surface area.

Luby-Phelps K. , Int Rev Cytol. , 2000; (192):931-946

Featured
Cytoarchitecture of size-excluding compartments in living cells.

Provance DW Jr, McDowall A, Marko M, Luby-Phelps K. , J Cell Sci. , 1993; (106):565-577

Featured
Subcellular compartmentalization by local differentiation of cytoplasmic structure.

Luby-Phelps K, Taylor DL. , Cell Motil Cytoskeleton. , 1988; (10):28-37

Spatial distribution of intraflagellar transport proteins in vertebrate photoreceptors.

Luby-Phelps K, Fogerty J, Baker SA, Pazour GJ, Besharse JC. , Vision Res. , February 2008; (48):413-423

A statistical approach for intensity loss compensation of confocal microscopy images.

Gopinath S, Wen Q, Thakoor N, Luby-Phelps K, Gao JX. , J Microsc. , 2008; (230):143-159

Honors/Awards

American Heart Established Investigator

(1991)