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Founded in 1993, the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology is a dynamic and successful center of higher education with an international reputation for high quality teaching and research.

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  • Civelekoglu-Scholey G, He B, Shen M, Wan X, Roscioli E, Bowden B, Cimini D. (2013) ) Dynamic bonds and polar ejection force distribution explain kinetochore oscillations in PtK1 cells. J Cell Biol 201, 577-93
  • Roberts, N.J., G. Morieri, G. Kalsi, A. Rose, J. Stiller, A. Edwards, F. Xie, P.M. Gresshoff, G.E.D. Oldroyd, J.A. Downie, and M.E. Etzler. (2013) Rhizobial and mycorrhizal symbioses in Lotus japonicas require lectin nucleotide phosphohydrolase, which acts upstream of calcium signaling. Plant Physiology 161, 556-567
  • Emami, S., D. Arumainayagam, I. Korf, and A.B. Rose. (2013) The effects of a stimulating intron on the expression of heterologous genes in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Biotechnology Journal Doi: 10.1111,
  • Dranow, DB, Tucker, RP and Draper, BD. (2013) Germ cells are required to maintain a stable sexual phenotype in adult zebrafish. Dev Biol 376, 43-50
  • Lui DY, Cahoon CK, Burgess SM. (2013) Multiple Opposing Constraints Govern Chromosome Interactions during Meiosis. PLoS Genet 9(1), e1003197
  • Acar, S., Carlson, D.B, Budamagunta, M.S., Yarov-Yarovoy, V., Correia, J.J., Ninonuevo, M.R., Jia, W., Tao, L., Leary, J.A., Voss, J.C., Evans, J.E. and J.M. Scholey. (2013) The bipolar assembly domain of the mitotic motor kinesin-5. Nat Comm DOI: 10.1038, ncomms2348
  • Beer, R. L. and B. W. Draper. (2013) nanos3 maintains germline stem cells and expression of the conserved germline stem cell gene nanos2 in the zebrafish ovary. Dev Biol 374, 308 - 318
  • Espiritu EB, Krueger LE, Ye A, Rose LS. (2012) CLASPs function redundantly to regulate astral microtubules in the C. elegans embryo. Dev Biol 368, 242-54
  • Kelley, D. R., Arreola, A., Gallagher, T. L., and Gasser, C. S. (2012) ETTIN/AUXIN RESPONSE FACTOR3 physically interacts with KANADI proteins to form a functional complex essential for integument development and polarity determination in Arabidopsis. Development 139, 1105-1109
  • Karen L.P. McNally, Amy S. Fabritius, Marina L. Ellefson, Jonathan R. Flynn, Jennifer A. Milan, Francis J. McNally. (2012) Kinesin-1 Prevents Capture of the Oocyte Meiotic Spindle by the Sperm Aster. Developmental Cell 22, 788
  • Paul A. Ginno, Paul L. Lott, Holly C. Christensen, Ian Korf, Frédéric Chédin. (2012) R-Loop Formation Is a Distinctive Characteristic of Unmethylated Human CpG Island Promoters. Mol Cell DOI 10.1016, molcel.2012.01.017
  • Niles BJ, Mogri H, Hill A, Vlahakis A, Powers T.. (2012) Plasma membrane recruitment and activation of the AGC kinase Ypk1 is mediated by target of rapamycin complex 2 (TORC2) and its effector proteins Slm1 and Slm2. PNAS 109(5), 1536-41
  • Bidlack, W. and R. L. Rodriguez. (2011) Nutritional Genomics: Impact of Dietary Regulation of Gene Function on Human Disease. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis ,
  • Ho HC, Burgess SM. (2011) Pch2 acts through Xrs2 and Tel1/ATM to modulate interhomolog bias and checkpoint function during meiosis. PLoS Genet 7(11), e1002351
  • Rose AB, Emami S, Bradnam K and Korf I. (2011) Evidence for a DNA-based mechanism of intron-mediated enhancement. Front. Plant Sci 2:98,
  • Galvez, A.F., Huang, L., Magbanua, M.M.J. Dawson, K. R. L. Rodriguez. (2011) Differential Expression of Thrombospondin (THBS1) in Turmorigenic and Nontumorigenic Prostate Epithelial Cells in Response to a Chromatin-Binding Soy Peptide. Nutrition and Cancer 63, 623-636
  • Parra, G., K. Bradnam, A.B. Rose, and I Korf. (2011) Comparative and functional analysis of intron-mediated enhancement signals reveals conserved features among plants. Nucleic Acids Res 39, 5328-5337
  • Krueger, Lori E., Jui-Ching Wu, Meng-Fu Bryan Tsou and Lesilee S. Rose. (2010) . Lateral inhibition of cortical pulling forces by LET-99 regulates asymmetric spindle positioning in C. elegans embryos. J Cell Bio 189, 481-94
  • Xing L, Wang JC, Li TC, Yasutomi Y, Lara J, Khudyakov Y, Schofield D, Emerson SU, Purcell RH, Takeda N, Miyamura T, Chenag, RH. (2011) Spatial configuration of hepatitis E virus antigenic domain. J Virol 82, 1117-24
  • Moscoso CG, Sun Y, Poon S, Xing L, Kan E, Martin L, Green D, Lin F, Vahlne AG, Barnett S, Srivastava I, Cheng RH. (2011) Quaternary structures of HIV Env immunogen exhibit conformational vicissitudes and interface diminution elicited by ligand binding. PNAS 108, 6091-6
  • Marina L. Ellefson and Francis J. McNally. (2011) CDK-1 inhibits meiotic spindle shortening and dynein-dependent spindle rotation in C. elegans. J Cell Biol DOI: 10.1083, jcb.201104008
  • Hao, L, M. Thein, I. Brust-Mascher, G. Civelekoglu-Scholey, Y. Lu, S. Acar, B. Prevo, S. Shaham, and JM Scholey. (2011) Intraflagellar transport delivers tubulin isotypes to sensory cilium middle and distal segments. Nat Cell Biol 13, 790-8
  • Tapley EC, Ly N, Starr DA.. (2011) Multiple mechanisms actively target the SUN protein UNC-84 to the inner nuclear membrane. Mol Biol Cell ,
  • Hotton SK, Eigenheer RA, Castro MF, Bostick M, Callis J. (2011) AXR1-ECR1 and AXL1-ECR1 heterodimeric RUB-activating enzymes diverge in function in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Mol Biol 75, 515-26
  • Jorge Lora, José I. Hormaza, María Herrero, and Charles S. Gasser. (2011) Seedless fruits and the disruption of a conserved genetic pathway in angiosperm ovule development. PNAS 108, 5461-5465