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Special Seminar - Ed Ballister
- Venue: Baddiley Clark Seminar Room
- Start: Fri, 15 Apr 2016 11:00:00 BST
- End: Fri, 15 Apr 2016 12:00:00 BST
Ed Ballister was previously a PhD student in Michael Lampson's group at UPenn, and is now a postdoc with Prof Rob Lucas in Manchester. He will discuss his cutting edge methods for "Experimentally manipulating kinase localisation to probe mitosis". Ed has published a series of excellent papers on Aurora B and checkpoint function, and also on optical methods for controlling protein activity in cells.
Optogenetic control of organelle transport using a photocaged chemical inducer of dimerization. Ballister ER, Ayloo S, Chenoweth DM, Lampson MA, Holzbaur EL. Curr Biol. 2015;25(10):R407-8
Localized light-induced protein dimerization in living cells using a photocaged dimerizer. Ballister ER, Aonbangkhen C, Mayo AM, Lampson MA, Chenoweth DM. Nat Commun. 2014;5:5475
Recruitment of Mad1 to metaphase kinetochores is sufficient to reactivate the mitotic checkpoint. Ballister ER, Riegman M, Lampson MA. J Cell Biol. 2014;204(6):901-8
Chromosomal Instability: Mad2 beyond the spindle checkpoint. Ballister ER, Lampson MA. Curr Biol. 2012;22(7):R233-5
Aurora B dynamics at centromeres create a diffusion-based phosphorylation gradient. Wang E, Ballister ER, Lampson MA. J Cell Biol. 2011;194(4):539-49
Feedback control in sensing chromosome biorientation by the Aurora B kinase. Salimian KJ, Ballister ER, Smoak EM, Wood S, Panchenko T, Lampson MA, Black BE. Curr Biol. 2011;21(13):1158-65