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  • 2018 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Carole A. Parent is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research contributions span several key areas within biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, medicine, immunology, and microbiology. The subfields of their work include molecular biology, immunology, oncology, cell biology, and immunology and allergy.

Their principal research topics focus on cell adhesion molecules, immune cells in cancer, neutrophil, myeloperoxidase and oxidative mechanisms, extracellular vesicles in disease, cellular mechanics and interactions, chemokine receptors and signaling, and skin and cellular biology.

Key recent publications authored or co-authored by Carole A. Parent include:

  • The principles of directed cell migration, 2021, Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
  • Dense sampling of bird diversity increases power of comparative genomics, 2020, Nature
  • The ins-and-outs of exosome biogenesis, secretion, and internalization, 2023, Trends in Cell Biology
  • Extracellular vesicles: Critical players during cell migration, 2021, Developmental Cell
  • Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Cells Recruit Neutrophils by Secreting TGF-β and CXCR2 Ligands, 2021, Frontiers in Immunology

The frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Carole A. Parent include Shuvasree SenGupta, Pierre A. Coulombe, Subhash B. Arya, Yang Xu, and Craig Johnson.

The scientist has published extensively in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Cell Biology, PLoS Biology, the Journal of Investigative Dermatology, and Nature.

Carole A. Parent was awarded the distinction of Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2018.

Best Publications

  • Neutrophil swarms require LTB4 and integrins at sites of cell death in vivo

    Tim Lämmermann;Philippe V. Afonso;Bastian R. Angermann;Ji Ming Wang

  • G Protein Signaling Events Are Activated at the Leading Edge of Chemotactic Cells

    Carole A. Parent;Brenda J. Blacklock;Wendy M. Froehlich;Douglas B. Murphy

  • Cell motility in cancer invasion and metastasis: insights from simple model organisms

    Christina H. Stuelten;Carole A. Parent;Denise J. Montell

  • LTB4 Is a Signal-Relay Molecule during Neutrophil Chemotaxis

    Philippe V. Afonso;Mirkka Janka-Junttila;Young Jong Lee;Colin P. McCann;Colin P. McCann

  • The principles of directed cell migration.

    Shuvasree SenGupta;Carole A Parent;James E Bear

  • Localization of the G Protein βγ Complex in Living Cells During Chemotaxis

    Tian Jin;Ning Zhang;Yu Long;Carole A. Parent

  • Molecular Genetics of Signal Transduction in Dictyostelium

    Carole A. Parent;Peter N. Devreotes

  • Making all the right moves: chemotaxis in neutrophils and Dictyostelium.

    Carole A Parent

  • Receptor-mediated Regulation of PI3Ks Confines PI(3,4,5)P3 to the Leading Edge of Chemotaxing Cells

    Yi Elaine Huang;Miho Iijima;Carole A. Parent;Satoru Funamoto

  • TOR complex 2 integrates cell movement during chemotaxis and signal relay in Dictyostelium

    Susan Lee;Frank I. Comer;Atsuo Sasaki;Ian X. McLeod

  • mTORC2 Regulates Neutrophil Chemotaxis in a cAMP- and RhoA-Dependent Fashion

    Lunhua Liu;Satarupa Das;Wolfgang Losert;Carole A. Parent

  • Adenylyl cyclase localization regulates streaming during chemotaxis

    Paul W. Kriebel;Valarie A. Barr;Carole A. Parent

  • PI 3-Kinases and PTEN: How Opposites Chemoattract

    Frank I. Comer;Carole A. Parent

  • Eukaryotic chemotaxis at a glance.

    Anna Bagorda;Carole A. Parent

  • Constitutive reductions in mTOR alter cell size, immune cell development, and antibody production

    Shuling Zhang;Julie A. Readinger;Wendy DuBois;Mirkka Janka-Junttila

  • Retraction: Exosomes Mediate LTB4 Release during Neutrophil Chemotaxis.

    Ritankar Majumdar;Aidin Tavakoli Tameh;Carole A. Parent

  • Ras-mediated activation of the TORC2–PKB pathway is critical for chemotaxis

    Huaqing Cai;Satarupa Das;Yoichiro Kamimura;Yu Long

  • Cell Shape Dynamics: From Waves to Migration

    Meghan Driscoll;Colin McCann;Rael Kopace;Tess Homan

  • Collective cell migration requires vesicular trafficking for chemoattractant delivery at the trailing edge.

    Paul W. Kriebel;Valarie A. Barr;Erin C. Rericha;Guofeng Zhang

  • TOR kinase complexes and cell migration

    Lunhua Liu;Carole A. Parent

Frequent Co-Authors

John T. Fourkas
John T. Fourkas University of Maryland, College Park
Peter N. Devreotes
Peter N. Devreotes Johns Hopkins University
Alan R. Kimmel
Alan R. Kimmel National Institutes of Health
Pierre A. Coulombe
Pierre A. Coulombe University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Alessio Fasano
Alessio Fasano Mead Johnson (United States)
Edward D. Korn
Edward D. Korn National Institutes of Health
Satyandra K. Gupta
Satyandra K. Gupta University of Southern California
David B. Lombard
David B. Lombard University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Cornelis J. Weijer
Cornelis J. Weijer University of Dundee
Michael Sixt
Michael Sixt Institute of Science and Technology Austria

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