News Archive
July 2021
The lab bids a fond adieu to technicians Lucas Marmorale, off to graduate school in Arizona, and Tom Reidy, off to greener(?) pastures in Pennsylvania.
July 2021
The lab welcomes CMB student Maha Hamed as a PhD candidate in the lab.
June 2021
Exomer complex regulates protein traffic at the TGN through differential interactions with cargos and clathrin adaptor complexes a collaboration with former visiting scholar Carlos Antón-Plágaro was published in the FASEB journal.
March 2021
The lab welcomes technician Noel Wys onto our stem cell team!
April 2021
Spatially resolved cell polarity proteomics of a human epiblast model describing our first foray into hPSC work was published in Science Advances.
Nov 2020
Plasma membrane to vacuole traffic induced by glucose starvation requires Gga2-dependent sorting at the trans-Golgi network was published in the special issue on endocytosis and stress in the journal Biology of the Cell.
Jan 2020
Our collaborative work with the Babst lab Plasma membrane tension regulates eisosome structure and function. was published in the Molecular Biology of the Cell.
October 2019
The lab was awarded a grant from the National Institutes of General medicine to study how the Clathrin Adaptor Protein complex -1 is regulated in yeast, and how it contributes to morphology in human stem cells.
April 2019
A team lead by Mara Duncan and Deb Gumucio was awarded a MICHR synergy grant to build a holistic model of membrane traffic in epithelia using pluripotent stem cells.Jan 2020
Our collaborative work with the Babst lab Plasma membrane tension regulates eisosome structure and function. was published in the Molecular Biology of the Cell.
October 2019
The lab was awarded a grant from the National Institutes of General medicine to study how the Clathrin Adaptor Protein complex -1 is regulated in yeast, and how it contributes to morphology in human stem cells.
April 2019
A team lead by Mara Duncan and Deb Gumucio was awarded a MICHR synergy grant to build a holistic model of membrane traffic in epithelia using pluripotent stem cells.
January 2019
Chris published his paper entitled "Adaptor protein complex-1 (AP-1) is recruited by the HEATR5 protein Laa1 and its co-factor Laa2 in yeast." in the Journal of Biological Chemsitry
November 2018
Jorge published his paper entitled "Investigation of Ldb19/Art1 localization and function at the late Golgi." in PlosOne.
Mara presented on Chris's work elucidating a new AP-1 accessory factor at the Midwest Yeast Meeting.
August 2018
Chao-wei published his paper entitled "A simple and inexpensive quantitative technique for determining chemical sensitivity in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. " in Scientific Reports
May 2018
Jorge defended his dissertation entitled " Novel roles and molecular mechanisms of membrane traffic machinery in yeast"
March 2018
Justin was awarded Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange for Young Professionals (CBYX) to spend a year in Germany.