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  • 2010 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

David G. Drubin is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with significant contributions in related subfields such as cell biology, molecular biology, atomic and molecular physics and optics, biophysics, and cardiology and cardiovascular medicine.

Their recent publications include studies focusing on cellular transport mechanisms, force microscopy applications, and membrane biology. Notable papers are:

  • Principles of self-organization and load adaptation by the actin cytoskeleton during clathrin-mediated endocytosis (2020, eLife)
  • Mechanistic insights into actin force generation during vesicle formation from cryo-electron tomography (2022, Developmental Cell)
  • Simultaneous co-localized super-resolution fluorescence microscopy and atomic force microscopy: combined SIM and AFM platform for the life sciences (2020, Scientific Reports)
  • Induced nanoscale membrane curvature bypasses the essential endocytic function of clathrin (2022, The Journal of Cell Biology)
  • Branched actin networks are organized for asymmetric force production during clathrin-mediated endocytosis in mammalian cells (2022, Nature Communications)

The scientist's work covers a range of topics, including:

  • Cellular transport and secretion
  • Force microscopy techniques and applications
  • Microtubule and mitosis dynamics
  • Advanced fluorescence microscopy techniques
  • Lipid membrane structure and behavior
  • Fungal and yeast genetics research
  • Cellular mechanics and interactions

Frequent collaborators include Cyna Shirazinejad, Matthew Akamatsu, Yuichiro Iwamoto, Ross T.A. Pedersen, and Daniel Serwas. The pairing with these coauthors reflects ongoing collaborative research efforts across multiple projects.

Publications by David G. Drubin have appeared frequently in several scientific journals, with multiple articles published in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), The Journal of Cell Biology, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Molecular Biology of the Cell, and Biophysical Journal.

Among their awarded recognitions, the scientist was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2010.

Best Publications

  • Origins of Cell Polarity

    David G Drubin;W.James Nelson

  • Tau protein function in living cells.

    David G. Drubin;Marc W. Kirschner

  • High Rates of Actin Filament Turnover in Budding Yeast and Roles for Actin in Establishment and Maintenance of Cell Polarity Revealed Using the Actin Inhibitor Latrunculin-A

    Kathryn R. Ayscough;Joel Stryker;Navin Pokala;Miranda Sanders

  • Harnessing actin dynamics for clathrin-mediated endocytosis

    Marko Kaksonen;Christopher P. Toret;David G. Drubin

  • Immunofluorescence Methods for Yeast

    John R. Pringle;Alison E.M. Adams;David G. Drubin;Brian K. Haarer

  • A Modular Design for the Clathrin- and Actin-Mediated Endocytosis Machinery

    Marko Kaksonen;Christopher P. Toret;David G. Drubin

  • A pathway for association of receptors, adaptors, and actin during endocytic internalization.

    Marko Kaksonen;Yidi Sun;David G. Drubin

  • Phospho-regulation of kinetochore-microtubule attachments by the Aurora kinase Ipl1p.

    Iain M. Cheeseman;Scott Anderson;Miri Jwa;Erin M. Green

  • Actin Assembly and Endocytosis: From Yeast to Mammals

    Asa E Y Engqvist-Goldstein;David G Drubin

  • Fluorescence microscopy methods for yeast.

    John R. Pringle;Robert A. Preston;Alison E.M. Adams;Tim Stearns

  • Functional cooperation between the microtubule and actin cytoskeletons.

    Bruce L Goode;David G Drubin;Georjana Barnes

  • Nerve growth factor-induced neurite outgrowth in PC12 cells involves the coordinate induction of microtubule assembly and assembly-promoting factors.

    D G Drubin;S C Feinstein;E M Shooter;M W Kirschner

  • Cofilin promotes rapid actin filament turnover in vivo

    Pekka Lappalainen;David G. Drubin

  • Observing the cell in its native state: Imaging subcellular dynamics in multicellular organisms

    Tsung-Li Liu;Srigokul Upadhyayula;Daniel E. Milkie;Ved Vati Singh

  • CDC12P, A PROTEIN REQUIRED FOR CYTOKINESIS IN FISSION YEAST, IS A COMPONENT OF THE CELL DIVISION RING AND INTERACTS WITH PROFILIN

    Fred Chang;David Drubin;Paul Nurse

  • Ultrastructure of the yeast actin cytoskeleton and its association with the plasma membrane.

    J Mulholland;D Preuss;A Moon;A Wong

  • Systematic mutational analysis of the yeast ACT1 gene.

    K F Wertman;D G Drubin;D Botstein

  • A protein interaction map for cell polarity development

    Becky L. Drees;Bryan Sundin;Elizabeth Brazeau;Juliane P. Caviston

  • Homology of a yeast actin-binding protein to signal transduction proteins and myosin-I.

    David G. Drubin;Jon Mulholland;Jon Mulholland;Zhimin Zhu;Zhimin Zhu;David Botstein;David Botstein

  • The Dam1 kinetochore ring complex moves processively on depolymerizing microtubule ends

    Stefan Westermann;Hong-Wei Wang;Agustin Avila-Sakar;David G. Drubin

Frequent Co-Authors

John R. Yates
John R. Yates Scripps Research Institute
Eva Nogales
Eva Nogales University of California, Berkeley
Marko Kaksonen
Marko Kaksonen University of Geneva
Pekka Lappalainen
Pekka Lappalainen University of Helsinki
George Oster
George Oster University of California, Berkeley
Bruce L. Goode
Bruce L. Goode Brandeis University
David Botstein
David Botstein Princeton University
Steven C. Almo
Steven C. Almo Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Hong-Wei Wang
Hong-Wei Wang Tsinghua University

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