Dr. Lázaro-Diéguez is a cell biologist and microscopist at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He earned his B.Sc. from the University of Valencia and his Ph.D. from the University of Barcelona where he contributed to the understanding of how the actin filaments are involved in the maintenance of Golgi apparatus cisternae architecture and post-Golgi trafficking (Cell Motil. Cytoskeleton. 63, 778-91; FEBS Lett. 581, 3875-81). He also developed a cell culture model to elucidate the mechanisms implicated in the formation and clearance of a filamentous actin Hirano body-like aggresome (J. Cell Sci. 121, 1415-25). As a postdoctoral researcher/associate at Einstein, he studied the role of the serine/threonine kinase Par1b and cell-cell adhesion during cell division in determining columnar/ductal or hepatocytic polarity in epithelial cells (J. Cell Biol. 203, 251-64; J. Cell Biol. 216, 3847-59), how the cell shape impacts the positioning of the mitotic spindle (Mol. Biol. Cell. 26, 1286-95), and the implication of Rho activity in the exit from the trans-Golgi network of apical and basolateral carriers in hepatocytes (Traffic 21, 364-74). His current research focuses on the study of the molecular mechanisms that govern the formation and maintenance of the bile canaliculi. He has served on the editorial boards of Cells and International Journal of Molecular Sciences and is currently Associate Editor of Cell Biology International.

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