Sabine Petry, Ph.D.

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Sabine Petry, Ph.D.
Title
Assistant Professor
Department
Molecular Biology Department
Institution
Princeton University
Address
Washington Road
415 Schultz Laboratory
City, State, ZIP
Princeton, NJ 08540
Phone
(609) 258-1553
Email
[email protected]
Website
http://molbio.princeton.edu/labs/petry
Research field
Cell Biology, Biochemistry, Structural Biology
Award year
2014

Research

The mission of my lab is to understand how cells acquire their shape, position organelles, move materials, and segregate chromosomes during cell division. These features are organized by the microtubule (MT) cytoskeleton, which resembles the skeletal system that supports our human body. Its biological function relies on the precise arrangement of MTs in the cell. To achieve this organization, MTs are generated at defined locations and then organized by proteins, which sever, grow, shrink, bundle, anchor, or move MTs. We want to understand these functionalities mechanistically and study them by combining methods of cell biology, biochemistry, biophysics, structural biology and engineering. This will ultimately reveal how the MT cytoskeleton builds structures to support essential functions of the cell, and enable us to address malfunction of the MT cytoskeleton, which lie at the heart of many diseases involving cell proliferation and cancer.

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