Joachim Seemann, PhD

Associate Professor
Endowed Title: Virginia Murchison Linthicum Scholar in Medical Research 2002-2006
Cell Biology
Graduate Program: Cancer Biology
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

joachim.seemann@utsouthwestern.edu

Biography

Max-Planck Institue for Biophysical Chemistry

Education

Graduate SchoolMax-Planck-Institute for Biophyscial Chem.,Germany (1996)

Research Interests

Biogenesis of the Golgi apparatus
Cell migration
Membrane traffic
Mitosis

Publications

Golgi biogenesis

Wang Y and Seemann J , Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology, 2011;

Nakiterpiosin targets tubulin and triggers mitotic catastrophe in human cancer cells

Wei JH, Seemann J , Molecular Cancer Therapeutics , 2010; (9):3375-3385

Induction of asymmetrical cell division to analyze spindle-dependent organelle partitioning using correlative microscopy techniques

Wei JH, Seemann J , Nature Prot , 2009; (4):1653-1662

The mitotic spindle mediates inheritance of the Golgi ribbon structure

Wei JH, Seemann J , The Journal of Cell Biology , 2009; (184):391-397

ERK regulates Golgi and centrosome orientation towards the leading edge through GRASP65

Bisel B, Wang Y, Wei JH, Xiang Y, Tang D, Miron-Mendoza M, Yoshimura S, Nakamura N, Seemann J , The Journal of Cell Biology , 2008; (182):837-843

Golgi cisternal unstacking stimulates COPI vesicle budding and protein transport

Wang Y, Wei JH, Bisel B, Seemann J , PLoS ONE , 2008; (3):e1647

Spatial separation of Golgi and ER during mitosis protects SREBP from unregulated activation

Bartz R, Sun LP, Bisel B, Wei JH, Seemann J , EMBO J , 2008; (27):948-955

Nucleoporin levels regulate cell cycle progression and phase-specific gene expression

Chakraborty P, Wang Y, Wei JH, van Deursen J, Yu H, Malureanu L, Dasso M, Forbes DJ, Levy DE, Seemann* J, Fontoura* BMA , Developmental Cell , 2008; (15):657-667

A direct role for GRASP65 as a mitotically regulated Golgi stacking factor

Wang* Y, Seemann* J, Pypaert M, Shorter J, Warren G , EMBO J. , 2003; (22):3279

Partitioning of the matrix fraction of the Golgi apparatus during mitosis in animal cells

Seemann J, Pypaert M, Taguchi T, Malsam J, Warren G , Science , 2002; (295):848

Honors/Awards

Virginia Murchison Lithicum Scholar in Medical Research

UT Southwestern Endowed Scholar (2003)

Imperial Cancer Research Fund

Postdoctoral Fellowship (1999)

German Research Foundation

Postdoctoral Fellowship (1997)

Max Planck Society

Graduate Fellowship (1994)

Professional Associations/Affiliations

American Society for Cell Biology