Fields of study

Fields of study 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
• Macromolecular Crystallography
• Bacterial, Yeast, Drosophila, and Mouse genetics
• Immunocytochemistry and Electron Microscopy
• Cell Fractionation
• Live Cell Imaging