Ram Dixit awarded $2M NIH grant to study dynamics of intracellular scaffolds
Biologist Ram Dixit in the Biology Department at Washington University in St. Louis has been awarded $2 million by the National Institutes of Health to help uncover the mechanisms underlying the dynamics, spatial organization and ...
Ben Prosser to Co-Lead $6.5 Million Transatlantic Grant to Investigate Cytoskeleton’s Role in Heart Disease
Benjamin L. Prosser, PhD, an assistant professor of Physiology in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, will serve as the North American coordinator for a new, multi-institutional $6.5 million grant from ...
Motor proteins create more stable tracks to deliver much-needed materials in plant cells
From WashU's, The Source. June 2, 2020. As a plant grows, it moves cellular material from its version of manufacturing sites to the cell wall construction zone. Transporter proteins, called motor proteins, are ...
Yale E. Goldman: 2020 recipient of the Kazuhito Kinosita Award in Single-Molecule Biophysics
Congratulations to Yale E. Goldman for winning the Biophysical Society’s 2020 Kazuhito Kinosita Award in Single Molecule Biophysics. This award is in recognition of Yale’s seminal contributions in measuring and understanding orientations, rotations, and ...
Remembering Barbara G. Pickard
With great sadness, we share the loss of our friend, Prof. Barbara G. Pickard of Washington University in St. Louis. Barbara passed on December 6, 2019, from complications related to hip surgery. She served ...
Healing interventions for spinal disc injuries
Researchers in the Mauck group have discovered that using a biological inhibitor to prevent cells in the spinal cord from becoming stressed and starting a subpar healing process gives doctors more time to treat ...
