Wallace Marshall, Ph.D.
Title: How cells regulate organelle size
Abstract
Dr. Wallace Marshall is an associate professor at UCSF. He was originally trained as an electrical engineer and became interested in the question of how cells are able to solve engineering problems. He obtained his Ph.D. in Biochemistry at UCSF, then did postdoctoral studies at Yale university. After his independence in 2003, he has been addressing questions of how cells regulate geometrical features such as size, position, and number of organelles. He has been awarded a Helen Hay Whitney Foundation postdoctoral fellowship, a Leukemia and Lymphoma Society special fellowship, a Searle Scholar award, and was named a WM Keck Foundation Distinguished Young Scholar in Biomedical Research. Major contributions from his lab have been the publication of a simplified model for flagellar length control that can integrate known aspects of flagellar biogenesis to explain how size may be regulated, as well as systematic studies of the composition of cilia, flagella and cnetroles using proteomic and transcriptomic methods. He is editorial board member of several journals including Current Biology and Journal of Cell Biology. He has authored and co-authored 95 papers including those in Science, Nature reviews.
Venue: Room143, New Biology Building, THU
Time: Apr.23 (Tuesday), 2013; 16:30
Host: Prof. Junmin Pan
