Lew Tilney

Affiliations: 
Biology University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States 
Area:
Cell biology of actin and microfilaments
Website:
http://www.med.upenn.edu/apps/faculty/index.php/g20000220/p4380899
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http://www.jcb.org/cgi/reprint/93/3/820

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Parents

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George B. Chapman grad student 1964 Cornell Medical College (Chemistry Tree)
Keith R. Porter post-doc Harvard
David Epel research scientist Stanford (Neurotree)
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Children

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Mark S. Mooseker grad student 1976 Penn (Chemistry Tree)
Lynne M. Coluccio post-doc 1982-1985 Penn
Douglas A. Cotanche post-doc 1983-1985 Penn (Neurotree)
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Hegan PS, Mermall V, Tilney LG, et al. (2007) Roles for Drosophila melanogaster myosin IB in maintenance of enterocyte brush-border structure and resistance to the bacterial pathogen Pseudomonas entomophila. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 18: 4625-36
Tilney LG, DeRosier DJ. (2005) How to make a curved Drosophila bristle using straight actin bundles. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 102: 18785-92
Guild GM, Connelly PS, Ruggiero L, et al. (2005) Actin filament bundles in Drosophila wing hairs: hairs and bristles use different strategies for assembly. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 16: 3620-31
Tilney LG, Connelly PS, Ruggiero L, et al. (2004) The role actin filaments play in providing the characteristic curved form of Drosophila bristles. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 15: 5481-91
Tilney LG, Connelly PS, Guild GM. (2004) Microvilli appear to represent the first step in actin bundle formation in Drosophila bristles. Journal of Cell Science. 117: 3531-8
Tilney LG, Connelly PS, Ruggiero L, et al. (2003) Actin filament turnover regulated by cross-linking accounts for the size, shape, location, and number of actin bundles in Drosophila bristles. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 14: 3953-66
Guild GM, Connelly PS, Ruggiero L, et al. (2003) Long continuous actin bundles in Drosophila bristles are constructed by overlapping short filaments. The Journal of Cell Biology. 162: 1069-77
Guild GM, Connelly PS, Vranich KA, et al. (2002) Actin filament turnover removes bundles from Drosophila bristle cells. Journal of Cell Science. 115: 641-53
Tilney LG, Connelly PS, Vranich KA, et al. (2000) Actin filaments and microtubules play different roles during bristle elongation in Drosophila. Journal of Cell Science. 113: 1255-65
Shaw MK, Compton HL, Roos DS, et al. (2000) Microtubules, but not actin filaments, drive daughter cell budding and cell division in Toxoplasma gondii. Journal of Cell Science. 113: 1241-54
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