Sedigheh (Mobi) Ghanbarzadeh and Darius in close collaboration with theorists Sami Al-Izzi and Richard Morris from the School of Physics, UNSW Sydney (both alumni of Warwick) investigate how the level of ATP (our loved fuel for molecular motors and other cellular processes) changes the dynamics and patterning of membrane bound actomyosin networks.
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Ferdos and Alex in a collaboration between Straube and Carter (MRC-LMB) labs, show that complexes of dynein, KIF1C, dynactin and cargo adapter Hook3 undertake plus and minus end-directed motility along microtubules.
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Intracellular nanovesicles come in many flavours. Mary in the Royle lab dug into the cell and pulled out an ATG9A flavour INV.
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James and Selena in Royle and Bayliss (Leeds) labs found an affimer that could inhibit the interaction between TACC3 and ch-TOG.
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