Cell Biology

Source: https://biology.mit.edu/faculty-and-research/areas-of-research/cell-biology/ Parent: https://biology.mit.edu/

cell division • organelle biogenesis and inheritance • cytoskeleton • signal transduction • cell motility • cell-cell and cell-matrix interactions • cell shape changes • metabolism • protein sorting and trafficking • cell wall and cell membrane biogenesis • nutrients and growth control

Faculty

Facundo Batista

Stephen Bell

Lindsay Case

Iain M. Cheeseman

Joseph (Joey) Davis

Alan D. Grossman

Whitney Henry

Siniša Hrvatin

Ankur Jain

Chris A. Kaiser

Kristin Knouse

Sally Kornbluth

Monty Krieger

Rebecca Lamason

Douglas Lauffenburger

Ruth Lehmann

Daniel Lew

Troy Littleton

Harvey F. Lodish

Sebastian Lourido

Adam C. Martin

Hernandez Moura Silva

Elly Nedivi

Sara Prescott

Alison E. Ringel

Thomas U. Schwartz

Phillip A. Sharp

Ron Vale

Matthew Vander Heiden

Robert A. Weinberg

Jonathan Weissman

Harikesh S. Wong

Yukiko Yamashita

Faculty Spotlight

Joseph (Joey) Davis

Associate Professor of Biology

Joseph Davis develops and applies new structural (cryoEM/ET) and biochemical methods to dissect how macromolecular machines such as ribosomes and autophagy complexes are dynamically assembled, regulated, and degraded to maintain cellular homeostasis.