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Overview

Joshua Zimmerberg is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States and has a research portfolio focused primarily on medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work spans several subfields including molecular biology, epidemiology, infectious diseases, public health, environmental and occupational health, and immunology.

The main topics explored in Zimmerberg's research include lipid membrane structure and behavior, influenza virus research studies, and SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research. Additional areas of focus encompass bacteriophages and microbial interactions, malaria research and control, extracellular vesicles in disease, and respiratory viral infections.

Zimmerberg has published extensively in various scientific journals, with frequent contributions to the following publication venues:

  • Biophysical Journal
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Extracellular Biology
  • Nature Communications
  • Viruses

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Zimmerberg include:

  • "Identifying SARS-CoV-2 Entry Inhibitors through Drug Repurposing Screens of SARS-S and MERS-S Pseudotyped Particles," 2020, ACS Pharmacology & Translational Science
  • "Structural basis for placental malaria mediated by Plasmodium falciparum VAR2CSA," 2021, Nature Microbiology
  • "Contacting domains segregate a lipid transporter from a solute transporter in the malarial host-parasite interface," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Endothelial cells release microvesicles that harbour multivesicular bodies and secrete exosomes," 2023, Journal of Extracellular Biology
  • "Dye Transport through Bilayers Agrees with Lipid Electropore Molecular Dynamics," 2020, Biophysical Journal

Zimmerberg's collaborative network includes frequent co-authors such as Paul S. Blank, Jennifer D. Petersen, Hang Waters, Elena Mekhedov, and Yuto Kegawa, reflecting a sustained partnership in multiple research efforts.

Best Publications

  • How proteins produce cellular membrane curvature

    Joshua Zimmerberg;Michael M. Kozlov

  • Membrane dipole potentials, hydration forces, and the ordering of water at membrane surfaces

    K. Gawrisch;D. Ruston;J. Zimmerberg;V.A. Parsegian

  • Antimycin A mimics a cell-death-inducing Bcl-2 homology domain 3.

    Shie-Pon Tzung;Kristine M. Kim;Gorka Basañez;Chris D. Giedt

  • Dynamics of putative raft-associated proteins at the cell surface.

    Anne K. Kenworthy;Benjamin J. Nichols;Benjamin J. Nichols;Catha L. Remmert;Glenn M. Hendrix

  • Lipids in biological membrane fusion.

    L. Chernomordik;M. M. Kozlov;J. Zimmerberg

  • The pathway of membrane fusion catalyzed by influenza hemagglutinin: restriction of lipids, hemifusion, and lipidic fusion pore formation.

    Leonid V. Chernomordik;Vadim A. Frolov;Eugenia Leikina;Peter Bronk

  • Dynamic clustered distribution of hemagglutinin resolved at 40 nm in living cell membranes discriminates between raft theories.

    Samuel T. Hess;Travis J. Gould;Manasa V. Gudheti;Sarah A. Maas

  • A quantitative model for membrane fusion based on low-energy intermediates

    Peter I. Kuzmin;Joshua Zimmerberg;Yuri A. Chizmadzhev;Fredric S. Cohen

  • Line tension and interaction energies of membrane rafts calculated from lipid splay and tilt.

    Peter I. Kuzmin;Sergey A. Akimov;Sergey A. Akimov;Yuri A. Chizmadzhev;Yuri A. Chizmadzhev;Joshua Zimmerberg

  • Toxoplasma invasion: the parasitophorous vacuole is formed from host cell plasma membrane and pinches off via a fission pore

    E Suss-Toby;J Zimmerberg;G E Ward

  • GTPase Cycle of Dynamin Is Coupled to Membrane Squeeze and Release, Leading to Spontaneous Fission

    Pavel V. Bashkirov;Sergey A. Akimov;Sergey A. Akimov;Alexey I. Evseev;Sandra L. Schmid

  • Bax, but not Bcl-xL, decreases the lifetime of planar phospholipid bilayer membranes at subnanomolar concentrations

    G. Basañez;A. Nechushtan;O. Drozhinin;A. Chanturiya

  • Simultaneous electrical and optical measurements show that membrane fusion precedes secretory granule swelling during exocytosis of beige mouse mast cells.

    Joshua Zimmerberg;Michael Curran;Fredric S. Cohen;Malcolm Brodwick

  • Polymer inaccessible volume changes during opening and closing of a voltage-dependent ionic channel.

    Joshua Zimmerberg;V. Adrian Parsegian

  • Implications of lipid microdomains for membrane curvature, budding and fission.

    Wieland B Huttner;Joshua Zimmerberg

  • A voltage-dependent channel involved in nutrient uptake by red blood cells infected with the malaria parasite.

    Sanjay A. Desai;Sergey M. Bezrukov;Joshua Zimmerberg

  • Bax-type Apoptotic Proteins Porate Pure Lipid Bilayers through a Mechanism Sensitive to Intrinsic Monolayer Curvature

    Gorka Basañez;Juanita C. Sharpe;Jennifer Galanis;Teresa B. Brandt

  • An Early Stage of Membrane Fusion Mediated by the Low pH Conformation of Influenza Hemagglutinin Depends upon Membrane Lipids

    Leonid V. Chernomordik;Eugenia Leikina;Vadim Frolov;Peter Bronk

  • The hemifusion intermediate and its conversion to complete fusion: regulation by membrane composition.

    L. Chernomordik;A. Chanturiya;J. Green;J. Zimmerberg

  • Membranes of the world unite

    Leonid V. Chernomordik;Joshua Zimmerberg;Michael M. Kozlov

Frequent Co-Authors

Fredric S. Cohen
Fredric S. Cohen Rush University Medical Center
Leonid V. Chernomordik
Leonid V. Chernomordik National Institutes of Health
Sergey M. Bezrukov
Sergey M. Bezrukov National Institutes of Health
Leonid Margolis
Leonid Margolis National Institutes of Health
Samuel W. Cushman
Samuel W. Cushman National Institutes of Health
Daniel E. Goldberg
Daniel E. Goldberg Washington University in St. Louis
John E. Heuser
John E. Heuser Washington University in St. Louis
Thomas S. Reese
Thomas S. Reese National Institutes of Health
Klaus Gawrisch
Klaus Gawrisch National Institutes of Health
Michael M. Kozlov
Michael M. Kozlov Tel Aviv University

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