Cell Biology and Metabolism Branch
National Cancer Institute
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland
A Functional Link Between Mitochondrial Morphology and Cell Cycle Progression at G1-S
(Oct. 6, 3:30 PM )
Presentation Summary
Dr. Lippincott-Schwartz is Chief of the Section on Organelle Biology in the Cell Biology and Metabolism Branch at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), a position she has held since 1992.
She obtained her PhD in Biochemisty from the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland in 1986. She then continued her graduate studies focusing on membrane trafficking in the laboratory of Dr. Richard Klausner at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH, where she conducted her postdoctoral research. She demonstrated for the first time a retrograde transport pathway for recycling of proteins from the Golgi complex to the endoplasmic reticulum.
Dr. Lippincott-Schwartz’ group has pioneered the use of green fluorescent protein (GFP) technology for the quantitative analysis and modeling of intracellular protein traffic and organelle biogenesis in live cells and embryos. Her results analyzing the distribution and behavior of proteins within living cells have led to new insights into cell compartmentalization, protein trafficking, and organelle inheritance.
