Friday Lecture Series
Friday, May 6, 2016
3:45 p.m., Caspary Auditorium
Tom A. Rapoport, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Cell Biology,
Harvard Medical School
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
How an Organelle Gets into Shape
Recommended Readings:
Hu, J., Shibata, Y., Voss, C., Shemesh, T., Li, Z., Coughlin, M., … & Prinz, W. A. (2008). Membrane proteins of the endoplasmic reticulum induce high-curvature tubules. Science, 319(5867), 1247-1250. doi: 10.1126/science.1153634.
Shemesh, T., Klemm, R. W., Romano, F. B., Wang, S., Vaughan, J., Zhuang, X., … & Rapoport, T. A. (2014). A model for the generation and interconversion of ER morphologies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(49), E5243-E5251. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1419997111.
Shibata, Y., Hu, J., Kozlov, M. M., & Rapoport, T. A. (2009). Mechanisms shaping the membranes of cellular organelles. Annual Review of Cell and Developmental, 25, 329-354. doi: 10.1146/annurev.cellbio.042308.113324.
Shibata, Y., Shemesh, T., Prinz, W. A., Palazzo, A. F., Kozlov, M. M., & Rapoport, T. A. (2010). Mechanisms determining the morphology of the peripheral ER. Cell, 143(5), 774-788. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2010.11.007.
Shibata, Y., Voeltz, G. K., & Rapoport, T. A. (2006). Rough sheets and smooth tubules. Cell, 126(3), 435-439.
