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Jonathan M. Scholey is affiliated with the University of California, Davis, in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a specialized focus on several subfields including Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, and Genetics.

The main topics addressed in their work cover Microtubule and mitosis dynamics, Genetic and Kidney Cyst Diseases, Protist diversity and phylogeny, Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms, as well as Cellular transport and secretion.

Among recent publications, Jonathan M. Scholey is the author of the paper titled Mitotic spindle membranes, published in 2025 in the journal Molecular Biology of the Cell. This work adds to the understanding of spindle membrane dynamics during cell division.

Another related work, while authored by a frequent coauthor Guangshuo Ou, includes the paper Motor Cooperation During Mitosis and Ciliogenesis published in 2022 in the Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology. Jonathan M. Scholey has collaborated closely with Guangshuo Ou, evidencing their engagement in studies addressing cellular mechanisms during mitosis.

The primary publication venues for Jonathan M. Scholey's research contributions are the Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology and Molecular Biology of the Cell.

  • Guangshuo Ou

  • Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology
  • Molecular Biology of the Cell

  • Microtubule and mitosis dynamics
  • Genetic and Kidney Cyst Diseases
  • Protist diversity and phylogeny
  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
  • Cellular transport and secretion

  • Cell Biology
  • Molecular Biology
  • Genetics

  • Motor Cooperation During Mitosis and Ciliogenesis (2022), Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology
  • Mitotic spindle membranes (2025), Molecular Biology of the Cell

Best Publications

  • A standardized kinesin nomenclature.

    Carolyn J. Lawrence;R. Kelly Dawe;Karen R. Christie;Don W. Cleveland

  • Microtubule motors in mitosis

    David J. Sharp;Gregory C. Rogers;Jonathan M. Scholey

  • Genes required for mitotic spindle assembly in Drosophila S2 cells.

    Gohta Goshima;Roy Wollman;Roy Wollman;Sarah S. Goodwin;Nan Zhang

  • Two anterograde intraflagellar transport motors cooperate to build sensory cilia on C. elegans neurons

    Joshua J. Snow;Guangshuo Ou;Amy L. Gunnarson;M. Regina S. Walker

  • Functional coordination of intraflagellar transport motors

    Guangshuo Ou;Oliver E. Blacque;Joshua J. Snow;Michel R. Leroux

  • A bipolar kinesin

    A. S. Kashina;R. J. Baskin;D. G. Cole;K. P. Wedaman

  • Regulation of non-muscle myosin assembly by calmodulin-dependent light chain kinase.

    J. M. Scholey;K. A. Taylor;K. A. Taylor;J. Kendrick-Jones

  • The bipolar kinesin, KLP61F, cross-links microtubules within interpolar microtubule bundles of Drosophila embryonic mitotic spindles

    David J. Sharp;Kent L. McDonald;Heather M. Brown;Heinrich J. Matthies

  • Intraflagellar transport motors in cilia: moving along the cell's antenna

    Jonathan M. Scholey

  • Novel heterotrimeric kinesin-related protein purified from sea urchin eggs

    D. G. Cole;S. W. Chinn;K. P. Wedaman;K. Hall

  • Two mitotic kinesins cooperate to drive sister chromatid separation during anaphase

    Gregory C. Rogers;Stephen L. Rogers;Tamara A. Schwimmer;Stephanie C. Ems-McClung

  • Identification of kinesin in sea urchin eggs, and evidence for its localization in the mitotic spindle.

    J. M. Scholey;M. E. Porter;P. M. Grissom;J. R. McIntosh

  • Role of a class DHC1b dynein in retrograde transport of IFT motors and IFT raft particles along cilia, but not dendrites, in chemosensory neurons of living Caenorhabditis elegans.

    Dawn Signor;Karen P. Wedaman;Jose T. Orozco;Noelle D. Dwyer

  • Efficient chromosome capture requires a bias in the 'search-and-capture' process during mitotic-spindle assembly

    R. Wollman;E.N. Cytrynbaum;J.T. Jones;T. Meyer

  • Cell division : cytoskeleton

    Jonathan M. Scholey;Ingrid Brust-Mascher;Alex Mogilner

  • Length control of the metaphase spindle

    Gohta Goshima;Roy Wollman;Roy Wollman;Nico Stuurman;Nico Stuurman;Jonathan M. Scholey

  • Identification of globular mechanochemical heads of kinesin

    Jonathan M. Scholey;John Heuser;Joy T. Yang;Lawrence S B Goldstein

  • Identification of a microtubule-based cytoplasmic motor in the nematode C. elegans.

    R.J. Lye;M.E. Porter;J.M. Scholey;J.R. McIntosh

  • Control of Mitotic Spindle Length

    Gohta Goshima;Jonathan M. Scholey

  • Intraflagellar transport and cilium-based signaling.

    Jonathan M. Scholey;Kathryn V. Anderson

Frequent Co-Authors

Ronald D. Vale
Ronald D. Vale University of California, San Francisco
Alex Mogilner
Alex Mogilner Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Michel R. Leroux
Michel R. Leroux Simon Fraser University
John Kendrick-Jones
John Kendrick-Jones MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Oliver E. Blacque
Oliver E. Blacque University College Dublin
Mary E. Porter
Mary E. Porter University of Minnesota
Nico Stuurman
Nico Stuurman University of California, San Francisco
Gohta Goshima
Gohta Goshima Nagoya University
Lawrence S.B. Goldstein
Lawrence S.B. Goldstein University of California, San Diego
Kent L. McDonald
Kent L. McDonald University of California, Berkeley

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