Scientific Report 2007

Cell Biology

Chairman's Overview

Staff

Sandra L. Schmid, Ph.D.*
Professor and Chairman

Francisco Asturias, Ph.D.**
Associate Professor

William E. Balch, Ph.D.*
Professor

Kristin Baldwin, Ph.D.***
Assistant Professor

Bridget Carragher, Ph.D.**
Associate Professor

Benjamin Cravatt, Ph.D.****
Professor
Director, Helen L. Dorris Child & Adolescent Neuro-Psychiatric Disorder Institute

Gaudenz Danuser , Ph.D.**
Associate Professor

Philip E. Dawson, Ph.D.*****
Associate Professor

Velia Fowler, Ph.D.**
Professor

Martin Friedlander, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor

Larry R. Gerace, Ph.D.*
Professor

Shelley Halpain, Ph.D.***
Associate Professor

Natasha Kralli, Ph.D.
Associate Professor

Peter Kuhn, Ph.D.**
Associate Professor

David Loskutoff, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus

Mari Manchester, Ph.D.**
Associate Professor

Stephen P. Mayfield, Ph.D.*****
Professor
Associate Dean of Graduate Studies

Mark Mayford, Ph.D.***
Associate Professor

Lindsey Miles, Ph.D.
Associate Professor

Ronald A. Milligan, Ph.D.**
Professor
Director, Center for Integrative Biosciences

Ulrich Müller, Ph.D.***
Professor

Ardem Patapoutian, Ph.D.^†
Associate Professor

Clinton Potter, B.S.**
Associate Professor

James Quigley, Ph.D.
Professor

Enrique Saez, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Lisa Stowers, Ph.D.^††
Assistant Professor

Peter N.T. Unwin, Ph.D.**
Professor

Clare Waterman-Storer, Ph.D.^†††
Associate Professor
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Bethesda, Maryland

Elizabeth Winzeler, Ph.D.^†
Associate Professor

John R. Yates III, Ph.D.
Professor

Mark J. Yeager, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor

Adjunct Appointments

Alan Bell, B.S.C.S.
Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
Palo Alto, California

Kelly Bethel, M.D.
Scripps Clinic Medical Group
La Jolla, California

Alan Bird, M.D.
Institute of Opthalmology
London, England

Richard Bruce, Ph.D.
Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
Palo Alto, California

Douglas Curry, B.S. (E.E.C.S.)
Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
Palo Alto, California

Bertil Daneholt, M.D.
Karolinska Institutet
Stockholm, Sweden

Scott Elrod, Ph.D.
Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
Palo Alto, California

Mark Ginsberg, M.D.
University of California
San Diego, California

David Goldberg, Ph.D.
Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
Palo Alto, California

Xiaohua Gong, Ph.D.
University of California
Berkeley, California

Klaus Hahn, Ph.D.
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Eric Peeters, Ph.D.
Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
Palo Alto, California

Heidi Stuhlmann, Ph.D.
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
New York, New York

Staff Scientists

Michael Bracey, Ph.D.

Anchi Cheng, Ph.D.

Elena Deryugina, Ph.D.

Robert Fischer, Ph.D.

Lesley Page-Chappel, Ph.D.

Matthew Ritter, Ph.D.

Elizabeth Wilson, Ph.D.

Senior Research Associates

Brian Adair, Ph.D.

Barbara Calabrese, Ph.D.

Mark Daniels, Ph.D.

Jeremiah Joseph, Ph.D.

Martin Schwander, Ph.D.

Defne Yarar, Ph.D.

Andries Zijlstra, Ph.D.^†††
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, Tennessee

Research Associates

Jessica Alexander, Ph.D.^†††
Merck Pharmaceuticals
Whitehouse Station, New Jersey

Geza Ambrus-Aikelin, Ph.D.

Veronica Ardi, Ph.D.

Andrea Bacconi, Ph.D.

Hedieh Badie, Ph.D.^†††
Burnham Institute for Medical Research
San Diego, California

Hongdong Bai, Ph.D.

Kent Baker, Ph.D.

Michael Bandell, Ph.D.

Claudia Barros, Ph.D.

Juan Bautista, Ph.D.

Maria Beligni, Ph.D.^†††
Rincon Pharmaceuticals
La Jolla, California

Richard Belvindrah, Ph.D.

Pablo Chamero Benito, Ph.D.

Edward Brignole III, Ph.D.

Florence Brunel, Ph.D.

Gang Cai, Ph.D.

Gregory Cantin, Ph.D.^†††
Dow Chemical Company
San Diego, California

Eric Carlson, Ph.D.

Aurelia Cassany, Ph.D.

Yuriy Chaban, Ph.D.

Emily Chen, Ph.D.

Yei Hua Chen, Ph.D.

Smita Chitnis, Ph.D.^†††
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York

Esther Choi, Ph.D.

Parag Chowdhury, Ph.D.^††††

Jill Chrencik, Ph.D.

Michael Churchill, Ph.D.

Francesco Conti, Ph.D.

Judith Coppinger, Ph.D.

Kaustuv Datta, Ph.D.

Leif Dehmelt, Ph.D.

Ajay Dhaka, Ph.D.Anouk Dirksen, Ph.D.

Meng-Qui Dong, Ph.D.

Jonas Dorn, Ph.D.

Michael Dorrell, Ph.D.

Kelly A. Dryden, Ph.D.

Jerome Dupuy, Ph.D.

Anna Durrans, Ph.D.^†††
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York

Santos Franco, Ph.D.

Margaret Gardel, Ph.D.^†††
University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois

Mohsen Sabouri Ghomi, Ph.D.

Jorg Grandl, Ph.D.

Nicolas Grillet, Ph.D.

Bin Guo, Ph.D.^†††
University of California
Berkeley, California

Stephanie Gupton, Ph.D.^†††
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Xuemei Han, Ph.D.

Johannes Hewel, Ph.D.^††††

Michael Hock, Ph.D.

Ke Hu, Ph.D.^†††
Inidiana University
Bloomington, Indiana

Michael Huber, Ph.D.

Darren Hutt, Ph.D.

Eric Hwang, Ph.D.

Khuloud Jaqaman, Ph.D.

Lin Ji, Ph.D.Nobutaka Kato, Ph.D.

Jin Young Kim, Ph.D.

Katsuhiro Kita, Ph.D.

Kevin Koehntop, Ph.D.

Jenny Kohler, Ph.D.^†††

Atanas Koulov, Ph.D.

Shailendra Kumar, Ph.D.

Jean-Cheng Kuo, Ph.D.^†††
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Bethesda, Maryland

Paul LaPointe, Ph.D.

Nicole Lazarus, Ph.D.

Philip Lee, Ph.D.

Raymond Lewis, Ph.D.

Lujian Liao, Ph.D.^†††
Emory University Medical School
Atlanta, Georgia

Jennifer Lin, Ph.D.^†††
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
La Jolla, California

Dinah Loerke, Ph.D.

Darren Logan, Ph.D.

Bingwen Lu, Ph.D.

Matthias Machacek, Ph.D.^†††
Novartis AG
Basel, Switzerland

Kalotina Machini, Ph.D.

Mark Madsen, Ph.D.^†††
Biogen Idec
San Diego, California

Valentina Marchetti, Ph.D.

Brent Martin, Ph.D.Isabel Martinez-Garay, Ph.D.

Julia Navarro, Ph.D.

Michael Matho, Ph.D.

Naoki Matsuo, Ph.D.

Daniel McClatchy, Ph.D.

Caroline McKeown, Ph.D.

Stephan Meister, Ph.D.

Marcel Mettlen, Ph.D.

Jennifer Mitchell, Ph.D.

Nico Mitro, Ph.D.

Machiko Muto, Ph.D.

Ryuichiro Nakai, Ph.D.

Aleksey Nakorchevskiy, Ph.D.

Andromeda Nauli, Ph.D.

Claire Tiraby Nguyen, Ph.D.

Sherry Niessen, Ph.D.

Yukako Nishimura, Ph.D.^†††
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Bethesda, Maryland

Bryan O'Neill, Ph.D.

Silvia Ortega-Gutierrez, Ph.D.^†††
Universidad Complutense
Madrid, Spain

Sandra Pankow, Ph.D.

Fabio Papes, Ph.D.

Ana Maria Pasapera, Ph.D.^†††
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Bethesda, Maryland

Joanna Pawlak, Ph.D.

Per Pettersson, Ph.D.Sergey Plotnikov, Ph.D.^†††
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Bethesda, Maryland

Barbie Pornillos, Ph.D.

Anita Pottekat, Ph.D.

Judith Prieto, Ph.D.

Thomas Pucadyil, Ph.D.

Rajesh Ramachandran, Ph.D.

Vandana Ramachandran, Ph.D.

Abbas Razvi, Ph.D.

Leon Reijmers, Ph.D.

Anna Reynolds, Ph.D.

Cristian Ruse, Ph.D.

Kumar Saikatendu, Ph.D.

Cleo Salisbury, Ph.D.

Manuela Schmidt, Ph.D.

Ian Schneider, Ph.D.

Christina Schroeder, Ph.D.^††††

Pratik Singh, Ph.D.^†††
University of California
Irvine, California

Scott Stagg, Ph.D.

Mark Surka, Ph.D.^†††
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.
New York, New York

Patricia Szainer, Ph.D.

Ingo Thievessen, Ph.D.^†††
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Bethesda, Maryland

Valerie Uzzell, Ph.D.

John Venable, Ph.D.^†††
Novartis
Boston, Massachusetts

Josep Villena, Ph.D.^†††
Fundació Institut de Recerca de l'Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron
Barcelona, Spain

Neil Voss, Ph.D.

Kari Bradtke Weber, Ph.D.^†††
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, Wisconsin

Eranthie Weerapana, Ph.D.

BinQing Wei, Ph.D.

Scott Westenberger, Ph.D.

Ann Wheeler, Ph.D.^†††
Imperial College London
London, England

James Wohlschlegel, Ph.D.^†††
University of California
Los Angeles, California

Catherine Wong, Ph.D.

Charmian Cher Wong, Ph.D.

Aaron Wright, Ph.D.

Beili Wu, Ph.D.

Ge Yang, Ph.D.

Bailong Xiao, Ph.D.

Wei Xiong, Ph.D.

Fan Zhang, Ph.D.

Qiang Zhao, Ph.D.

Scientific Associates

Hilda Edith Aguilar de Diaz, M.D.

Alexei Brooun, Ph.D.^††††

Claire Delahunty, Ph.D.

Mohammed El-Kalay, Ph.D.Tinglu Guan, Ph.D.

Anand Kolatkar, Ph.D.

Tatyana Kupriyanova, Ph.D.

Lujian Liao, Ph.D.

* Joint appointment in the Department of Molecular Biology
** Joint appointment in the Center for Integrative Molecular Biosciences
*** Joint appointment in the Institute for Childhood and Neglected Diseases
**** Joint appointments in the Department of Chemistry, The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, and the Helen L. Dorris Child and Adolescent Neuro-Psychiatric Disorder Institute
***** Joint appointment in The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology
^† Joint appointments in the Institute for Childhood and Neglected Diseases and the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation
^†† Joint appointment in the Helen L. Dorris Child and Adolescent Neuro-Psychiatric Disorder Institute
^††† Appointment completed; new location shown
^†††† Appointment completed