Encyclopedia of Cell Biology

Ralph A. Bradshaw is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at the University of California, Irvine. Prior to that he was on the faculty of the Department of Biological Chemistry, Washington University, and Professor and Chair of the Department of Biological Chemistry, University of California Irvine. He presently is Professor of Pharmacology at the University of California, San Diego. He served as president of FASEB, was the founding president of the Protein Society and was the treasurer of the ASBMB. He was the founding editor of Molecular and Cellular Proteomics. His research has focused on protein chemistry and proteomics, with emphasis on the structure and function of growth factors and their receptors, particularly nerve growth factor and ?broblast growth factor, and the involvement of receptor tyrosine kinases in cell signaling. He has also studied the role of proteolytic processing and N-terminal modi?cation in protein stability and turnover. Philip D. Stahl is Professor Emeritus at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. He was educated at West Virginia University and Vanderbilt University. He served as Head of the Department of Cell Biology and Physiology and Director of the Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences at Washington University. He has been the recipient of many awards including a MERIT award from the NIH and the WICB Senior Recognition award given by the American Society for Cell Biology in recognition of his work supporting the advancement of women in science. Among Stahl Lab contributions are the discovery of the lysosomal enzyme clearance pathway now implemented in the treatment of lysosomal storage disease, discovery of the innate immune receptor, the mannose receptor, discovery of the exosome secretion pathway, and the role of Rab5 and Arf6 in endocytosis. Currently his research focuses on endocytosis, signal transduction, and exosome biogenesis and secretion.

Topics included:

cell mechanics

cell biology of metabolic pathways

cytokinesis

chromatin and chromosomes

cytoskeleton dynamics

lipid dynamics and signaling

stem cells

motors

cell and tissue morphogenesis

intracellular trafficking

prokaryotic cell biology

RNA Biology

Aging

Edo and Exocytosis

Cell Growth/Injury/Death

Imaging

cellular stress response

extracellular matrix

mitosis and meiosis

nuclear cell biology

organelle structure and biogenesis

cell growth

cell migration and motility

cell polarity

cell cycle

cilia and centrosomes

cells of the immune system

cytoskeletal and nuclear intermediate filaments and disease

cell biology to therapeutics

autophagy

signal transduction

plant cell structures

protein processing