Mitosis & Cytokinesis laboratory

Current Lab Web Site

New Lab Web Site -- still under development

New site organization

  1. Home

    • written overview of lab

  2. People

    • Principle Investigator - Pat Wadsworth
    • Lab Manager - Carey Fagerstrom

    • Current Students

      • Graduate Students - U. Serdar Tulu, Kausalya Murthy, and Nick Ferenz
      • Undergraduate Students - Tim Blegen and Tscheko Makuwa

    • Alumni

      • Doctoral  Students - Nasser M. Rusan, Anne-Marie Yvon, Eric Shelden, and Rama Dhamodharan
      • Masters Students - Jay McMeeken

  3. Research

    • Mitosis
    • Cytokinesis
    • Cell Motility

  4. Publications

    • Add the pubs listed below to the current pubs on the lab web site

  5. Movie Collection

    • spindle assembly
    • spindle disassembly
    • spindle flux
    • cytokinesis
    • microtubule dynamics
    • microtubule nucleation
    • cell motility
    • fish keratocyttes
    • fish embryos

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New pubs to add

Murthy, K. and P. Wadsworth (2005). "Myosin-II-dependent localization and dynamics of F-actin during cytokinesis." Curr. Biol. 15: 724-731.

Rusan, N. M. and P. Wadsworth (2005). "Centrosome fragments and microtubules are released and transported asymetrically away from division plane in anaphase." J. Cell Biol. 168: 21-28.

Tulu, U. S., C. Fagerstrom, et al. (2006). "Molecular requirements for kinetochore-associated microtubule formation in mammalian cells." Curr. Biol. 16: 536-541.

Wadsworth, P. (2004). Studying mitosis in cultured mammalian cells. Live Cell Imaging: A laboratory Manual. D. L. Spector and R. D. Goldman. Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y., Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press.

Wadsworth, P. (2005). "Cytokinesis: Rho marks the spot." Curr. Biol. 15: R871-874.

Wadsworth, P. and A. Khodjakov (2004). "E pluribus unum: toward a universal mechanism for spindle assembly." Trends in Cell Bio 14(8): 413-419.

Wadsworth, P. and N. Rusan (2004). Mechanics of Mitosis. Encyclopedia of Biological Chemistry. W. J. Lennarz and M. D. Lane. San Diego, Academic Press/Elsevier. 2: 743-747.

Wadsworth, P., N. M. Rusan, et al. (2005). "Stable expression of fluorescently tagged proteins for studies of mitosis in mammalian cells." Nat. Methods 2(12): 981-987.