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LMCB Group Leader, UCL Senior Research Fellow (part-time)
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Cell migration
Selected publications
Cramer LP (2013). Mechanism of Cell Rear Retraction in Migrating Cells. Current Opinion Cell Biology 25(5) 591-599 doi: 10.1016/j.ceb.2013.05.001
Nightingale TD, et al (2012). Actin Coats and Rings Promote Regulated Exocytosis. Trends Cell Biol. 22:329-337 doi: 10.1016/j.tcb.2012.03.003
Kalaji R, et al (2012). ROCK1 and ROCK2 regulate epithelial polarisation and geometric cell shape. Biol. Cell 104: 435-451
Mseka T & Cramer LP (2011). Actin Depolymerization-Based Force Retracts the Cell Rear in Polarizing and Migrating Cells. Curr Biol 21(24):2085-91 doi:10.1016/j.cub.2011.11.006.
Nightingale TD, et al (2011). Actomyosin II contractility expels von Willebrand factor from Weibel-Palade bodies during exocytosis. J Cell Biol 194(4), 613-629 doi:10.1083/jcb.201011119.
Cramer LP (2010). Forming the cell rear first; breaking cell symmetry to trigger directed cell migration. Nature Cell Biol. 12:628-632
Research themes
Cytoskeleton
Polarity and cell shape
Cell migration
Collaborators
Dan Cutler (LMCB, UK)
Rob Kay (LMB, Cambridge, UK)
Tom Nightingale (Barts, UK)
Clare Bryant (University Cambridge, UK)