Sentences with phrase «studying kinetochores»

For a post-doc, Corbett joined the lab of Stephen Harrison at Harvard Medical School with the intention of studying kinetochores, enormous protein assemblies that control the motion of chromosomes during cell division.

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Biologists who study the mechanics of cell division have for years disagreed about how much force is at work when the cell's molecular engines are lining chromosomes up in the cell, preparing to winch copies to opposite poles across a bridge - like structure called the kinetochore to form two new cells.

We therefore study functions of kinetochore proteins and spatio - temporal control of kinase / phosphatase signaling complexes, in particular those involved in attachment error - correction and the spindle assembly checkpoint.

He completed his master's in biotechnology at the University of Pennsylvania, where he worked in Michael Lampson's lab studying microtubule — kinetochore dynamics during mitosis.