Field of study

Fields include membrane traffic and protein sorting, organelle biogenesis, epithelial cell

polarity, membrane function in the nervous system (synapse formation and function),

axon guidance, developmental genetics, cell biology of protozoan parasites and of

pathogen/host interactions, cell biology of the immune response, mRNA biogenesis and

localization, RNA folding, non-coding RNAs, stem cells, structural biology, cell biology

of bone remodeling and of the cytoskeleton, cellular signaling and motility, cytokinesis.

Approaches to these topics include biochemistry, molecular biology, and macromolecular crystallography; bacterial, yeast, Drosophila, and mouse genetics; immunocytochemistry and electron microscopy; cell fractionation; and live cell imaging.