Role of membrane trafficking in polarity and cell shape definition

Speaker: Isabelle Jourdain, University of Exeter, UK
Host: Rasmus Hartmann-Petersen (Section for Biomolecular Sciences)

Recent papers
Fission yeast sec3 bridges the exocyst complex to the actin cytoskeleton. Jourdain I, Dooley HC, Toda T. Traffic. 2012 Nov;13(11):1481-95. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0854.2012.01408.x. Epub 2012 Sep 7.

Actin cables and the exocyst form two independent morphogenesis pathways in the fission yeast. Bendezú FO, Martin SG. Mol Biol Cell. 2011 Jan 1;22(1):44-53. doi: 10.1091/mbc.E10-08-0720. Epub 2010 Dec 9.

Exo70 isoform switching upon epithelial-mesenchymal transition mediates cancer cell invasion. Lu H, Liu J, Liu S, Zeng J, Ding D, Carstens RP, Cong Y, Xu X, Guo W. Dev Cell. 2013 Dec 9;27(5):560-73. doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2013.10.020.