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. Dr. Lázaro-Diéguez 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. Dr. Lázaro-Diéguez 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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