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LMCB Group Leader, Associate Professor of Cell Biology
Employed part-time
Employed part-time
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Cell migration and Education Research
Selected publications
Cramer L (2021) EQUITY, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION: Alternative strategies for closing the award gap between white and minority ethnic students. eLife 2021;10:e58971 DOI: 10.7554/eLife.58971
Feature news article, Nature, Sept 2021
Cramer LP, et al (2018) Repellent and Attractant Guidance Cues Initiate Cell Migration by Distinct Rear-Driven and Front-Driven Cytoskeletal Mechanisms. Current Biology, doi:10.1016/j.cub.2018.02.024
Nightingale TD, et al (2018). Tuning the endothelial response: differential release of exocytic cargos from Weibel-Palade Bodies. Journal of thrombosis and haemostasis : JTH, doi:10.1111/jth.14218
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.
Funders
3i
Cancer Research UK
BBSRC
Human Frontiers Science Programme Organisation
Wellcome Trust
Royal Society
Research themes
Race equality in Higher Education
Cytoskeleton
Polarity and cell motility
Cell migration
Collaborators
Dan Cutler (LMCB, UK)
Rob Kay (LMB, Cambridge, UK)
Tom Nightingale (Barts, UK)
Clare Bryant (University Cambridge, UK)