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Principal Investigator: |
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Our Fearless Leader Julie Theriot is an assistant professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Department of Microbiology and Immunology Stanford School of Medicine. |
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Lab phone number: (650) 723-6220 Theriot Lab Dept of Biochemistry Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305 |
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Current Lab Members: |
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Anna Brotcke, Ph.D. student. |
Annie studies the pathogenesis of intracellular bacteria. |
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Aretha Fiebig, Postdoctoral Fellow |
Aretha is interested dynamic processes in bacterial cell biology, in particular, chromosome segregation species with more than one chromosome. Aretha is also investigating species specific differences in motility of intracellular pathogens. |
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Matt is using biochemistry to probe the interactions among the proteins required for actin-based motility. He is also pursuing new mechanisms for 'man-made' actin-based motility via creation of asymetrically-coated particles. |
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Karine Gibbs, Ph.D. student. |
Karine studies the generation of subcellular spatial asymmetries in bacterial proteins. |
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Kinneret Keren, Postdoctoral Fellow. |
Kinneret investigates the biophysics of cell motility. |
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Catherine Lacayo, Ph.D. student. |
Catherine investigates the motile behavior of Listeria monocytogenesas a function of its subcellular location. |
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Zachary Pincus, Ph.D. student. |
Zach is interested in approaches to automatically analyzing and categorizing image data. He is also interested in relating image data to the outputs and parameters of computational models of cellular processes. |
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Susanne Rafelski, Ph.D. student. |
Susanne wants to understand the mechanism of Listeria motility initiation. She is interested in how ActA and actin surface distribution effect initiation dynamics. |
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Martijn van Duijn, Postdoctoral Fellow. |
Martijn will study the crawling of cells over surfaces structured with photolithographic techniques. Also, he will try to reconstruct cell crawling with purified proteins in large lipid vesicles. |
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Cyrus Wilson, Ph.D. student. |
Cyrus is quantitatively investigating how molecular and mechanical processes across multiple scales integrate to produce cell motility. |
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Patricia Yam, Ph.D. student. |
Patricia uses fish epithelial keratocytes to investigate events that occur when the cells shift from a non-motile to a motile state. She is also investigating actin dynamics in cells initiating motility and undergoing steady state motility. |
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Nathalie
Dye, Ph.D. student |
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People We Really Like Who Hang Out Here A Lot: |
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Denise Monack, Ph.D. student. |
Denise is a member of the Falkow group, and is interested in what it takes to be an intracellular pathogen. With a combination of genetic and cell biological techniques, she studies the Shigella life cycle and its protease-dependent mechanism for mediating actin-based motility. |
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Alexander, a recent post-doctoral fellow in Steve Boxer's lab, studies the physics of Brownian ratchets. Using computer modelling, microfabrication and video microscopy, he studies actin-based force generation and the spontaneous acquisition of asymmetry in actin-based motility. |
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Diana Rios-Cardona, Ph.D. student |
Diana's is a Ph.D student in Jim Ferrell's lab. Her research interest is (for now) cloning and characterization of G-Protein coupled receptors of Xenopus oocytes. |
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Julie Sneddon, Ph.D. student |
Julie is a graduate student in Pat Brown's lab interested in the cellular response to Listeria infection. |
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Alumni: |
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Paula Giardini, Ph.D., |
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Rachael Ream, Ph.D., |
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David Baldwin, Ph.D., |
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Chloe Chhor, M.D., |
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Yaroslaw Bazaliy, Ph.D., |
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John Lyo, M.D., |
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Sandy McCallum, Ph.D. |
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David Fung, Ph.D. |
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Mitch Sanders, Ph.D. |
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Barrett Simms |
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