Cell Biology Training Track Faculty

Track Chair:  Joel Goodman

Joseph Albanesi -- Mechanisms of membrane fusion; Role of lipids in membrane trafficking; Membrane vesiculation of dynamin.

Richard Anderson -- Compartmentalization of signal transduction by caveolae and coated pits.

Michael Brown -- Regulation of gene expression; cell-surface receptor function; genetics and biochemistry of lipoprotein and cholesterol metabolism.

Beatriz M.A. Fontoura -- Role of nuclear transport factors in interphase and mitosis: from viral pathogenesis to cell division.

Joel Goodman -- Intracellular sorting of newly synthesized proteins; organelle biogenesis and membrane structure and function; the yeast peroxisome as a model of organellar assembly.

Jer-Tsong (J.T.) Hsieh -- Human cancer gene therapy; signaling defects in urogenital cancers.

Michael Roth -- Recognition and sorting of cell-surface glycoproteins.

Joachim Seemann -- Biogenesis of the Golgi apparatus.

William Snell -- Cell-cell interactions and signal transduction during fertilization in Chlamydomonas; cellular and molecular mechanisms of cell-cell fusion.

Christoph Wuelfing -- Regulation of cytoskeletal rearrangements during T lymphocyte activation.

Helen Yin -- Mechanisms for signal transduction through the actin cytoskeleton.

Hui Zou -- Molecular circuitries that ensure a timely and equal separation of chromosomes into the forming daughter cells; vertebrate mechanisms of chromatid cohesion and separation; unequal division of cytoplasmic content during asymmetric cell divisions.