Biomimetic membrane systems to
study cellular organization.
Not exact matches
The
study's senior author, Amy S. Gladfelter of University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, began this work as part of the HHMI / HCIA Summer Institute at the MBL, a group of 70 scientists who explored this emerging paradigm of
cellular organization over five summers of intense, synergistic research.
«We found that mitochondria communicate changes in
cellular organization to initiate a specific metabolic reconfiguration that supports primitive hMSC properties,» said Dr. Teng Ma, senior author of the STEM CELLS
study..
Interestingly, isolated islets provide a superior platform for
studying propagation of IAPP aggregates because islets retain the composition and
organization of endocrine cells and the extracellular matrix, which is absent in isolated,
cellular monolayers.
The American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology focuses on the physiology of the heart, blood vessels and lymphatics, including experimental and theoretical
studies of cardiovascular function at all levels of
organization ranging from the intact animal to the
cellular, subcellular and molecular levels.
Since the discovery of GFP over 50 years ago, the growing spectrum of fluorescent proteins (FPs) has been an invaluable resource for
studying the
organization and function of
cellular systems.
My research is framed within the Wellcome Trust consortium on the archaeal origins of eukaryotic cell
organization (http://evocyt.com/), which includes a diverse group of researchers
studying the evolution of eukaryotic machinery from different points of view — e.g. how do specific
cellular systems work in different lineages, and how did that affect the origin of the eukaryotic cell plan?