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Name: Gary G. Borisy
Title: Leslie B. Arey Professor
Research area: Role of the cytoskeleton in cell division, cell movement, and the establishment and maintenance of cell form.
Degree: Ph.D., University of Chicago
E-mail: borisy@northwestern.edu
Link to lab webpage: http://
www.borisylab.northwestern.edu


Representative publications:

Rodionov, V.I. and Borisy, G.G. (1998). Self-centering in
  cytoplasmic fragments of melanophores. Mol. Biol.
  Cell. 9: 1613-1615.

Rodionov, V.I., Nadezhdina, E. and Borisy, G.G. (1999).
  Centrosomal control of microtubule dynamics. Proc.
  Natl. Acad. Sci. 96: 115-120.

Verkhovsky, A.B., Svitkina, T.M. and Borisy, G.G. (1999).
  Self-polarization and directional motility of cytoplasm.
  Current Biol. 9: 11-20.

Keating, T.J. and Borisy, G.G. (1999). Centrosomal and
  non-centrosomal microtubules. Biol. of the Cell.
  91: 321-329.

Vorobjev, I.A., Rodionov, V.I., Maly, I.V. and Borisy, G.G.
  (1999). Contribution of plus and minus end pathways
  to microtubule turnover. J. Cell Sci. 112: 2277-2289.

Svitkina, T.M. and Borisy, G.G. (1999). Arp2/3 complex
  and ADF/cofilin in dendritic organization and
  treadmilling of actin filament array in lamellipodia. J.
  Cell Biol. 145: 1009-1026.

Svitkina, T.M. and Borisy, G.G. (1999). Progress in
  protrusion: the telltale Scar. Trends Biochem.
  Sci. 24: 432-436.

Chang, S., Svitkina, T.M., Borisy, G.G. and Popov, S.
  (1999). Speckle microscopy evaluation of microtubule
  transport in growing nerve processes. Nature Cell
  Biol. 1: 399-403.

Henson, J.H., Svitkina, T.M., Burns, A.R., Hughes, H.E.,
  MacPartland, K.J., Nazarian, R. and Borisy, G.G.
  (1999). Two components of centripetal flow in sea
  urchin coelomocytes. Mol. Biol. Cell 10: 4075-4090.

Carlier, M.-F. and Borisy, G.G. (2000). Cytoskeleton:
  molecular hardware in action. Curr. Opin. Cell Biol.
  12: 17-19.

Borisy, G.G. (2000). Beyond Cell Toons. J. Cell Science
  113: 749-750.

Keating, T.J. and Borisy, G.G. (2000). Template
  mechanism of microtubule nucleation:
  Immunostructural evidence. Nature Cell Biol. in press.