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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1998 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1975 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

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Lewis G. Tilney is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States.

Their academic profile includes recognition such as membership in the National Academy of Sciences, awarded in 1998, and fellowship at the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1975.

Best Publications

  • Actin filaments and the growth, movement, and spread of the intracellular bacterial parasite, Listeria monocytogenes.

    L G Tilney;D A Portnoy

  • A Plastid of Probable Green Algal Origin in Apicomplexan Parasites

    Sabine Köhler;Charles F. Delwiche;Paul W. Denny;Lewis G. Tilney

  • The rate of actin-based motility of intracellular Listeria monocytogenes equals the rate of actin polymerization.

    Julie A. Theriot;Timothy J. Mitchison;Lewis G. Tilney;Daniel A. Portnoy

  • Dual roles of plcA in Listeria monocytogenes pathogenesis

    Andrew Camilli;Lewis G. Tilney;Daniel A. Portnoy

  • Microtubules: evidence for 13 protofilaments.

    Lewis G. Tilney;Joseph Bryan;Doris J. Bush;Keigi Fujiwara

  • The organization of actin filaments in the stereocilia of cochlear hair cells.

    L G Tilney;D J Derosier;M J Mulroy

  • The road less traveled: transport of Legionella to the endoplasmic reticulum

    Craig R. Roy;Lewis G. Tilney

  • How the parasitic bacterium Legionella pneumophila modifies its phagosome and transforms it into rough ER: implications for conversion of plasma membrane to the ER membrane.

    Lewis G. Tilney;Omar S. Harb;Patricia S. Connelly;Camenzind G. Robinson

  • The Deaf Jerker Mouse Has a Mutation in the Gene Encoding the Espin Actin-Bundling Proteins of Hair Cell Stereocilia and Lacks Espins

    Lili Zheng;Gabriela Sekerková;Kelly Vranich;Lewis G. Tilney

  • Polymerization of actin. IV. Role of Ca++ and H+ in the assembly of actin and in membrane fusion in the acrosomal reaction of echinoderm sperm.

    LG Tilney;DP Kiehart;C Sardet;M Tilney

  • Actin filaments, stereocilia, and hair cells: how cells count and measure.

    Lewis G. Tilney;Mary S. Tilney;David J. DeRosier

  • Organization of actin, myosin, and intermediate filaments in the brush border of intestinal epithelial cells.

    N Hirokawa;N Hirokawa;L G Tilney;L G Tilney;K Fujiwara;J E Heuser;J E Heuser

  • Role of listeriolysin O in cell-to-cell spread of Listeria monocytogenes.

    Margaret M. Gedde;Darren E. Higgins;Lewis G. Tilney;Daniel A. Portnoy

  • Gamma interferon limits access of Listeria monocytogenes to the macrophage cytoplasm.

    D A Portnoy;R D Schreiber;P Connelly;L G Tilney

  • The plastid of Toxoplasma gondii is divided by association with the centrosomes.

    Boris Striepen;Boris Striepen;Michael J. Crawford;Michael K. Shaw;Lewis G. Tilney

  • THE ROLE OF MICROTUBULES IN THE MOVEMENT OF PIGMENT GRANULES IN TELEOST MELANOPHORES

    Douglas B. Murphy;Lewis G. Tilney

  • Actin filaments, stereocilia, and hair cells of the bird cochlea. III. The development and differentiation of hair cells and stereocilia.

    Lewis G. Tilney;Lewis G. Tilney;Mary S. Tilney;Mary S. Tilney;James S. Saunders;James S. Saunders;David J. DeRosier;David J. DeRosier

  • Actin from Thyone sperm assembles on only one end of an actin filament: a behavior regulated by profilin.

    L G Tilney;E M Bonder;L M Coluccio;M S Mooseker

  • A plastid segregation defect in the protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii

    Cynthia Y. He;Michael K. Shaw;Charles H. Pletcher;Boris Striepen

  • Actin filaments, stereocilia, and hair cells of the bird cochlea. V. How the staircase pattern of stereociliary lengths is generated

    L G Tilney;M S Tilney;D A Cotanche

Frequent Co-Authors

David J. DeRosier
David J. DeRosier Brandeis University
David S. Roos
David S. Roos University of Pennsylvania
Daniel A. Portnoy
Daniel A. Portnoy University of California, Berkeley
Boris Striepen
Boris Striepen University of Pennsylvania
Edward H. Egelman
Edward H. Egelman University of Virginia
James C. Saunders
James C. Saunders University of Pennsylvania
Mark S. Mooseker
Mark S. Mooseker Yale University
Craig R. Roy
Craig R. Roy Yale University
Douglas A. Cotanche
Douglas A. Cotanche Boston University
Jeffrey D. Palmer
Jeffrey D. Palmer Indiana University

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