EMBO Associate Member

Tomas Kirchhausen

Harvard Medical School, Boston | United States

EMBO 2014

Membrane traffic, endocytosis & organelle biogenesis

Our research focuses on the processes that mediate the movement of membrane proteins throughout cells, the cell's sorting machineries responsible for receptor-mediated endocytosis and for secretion, and how they are high-jacked by toxins, viruses and bacterial pathogens to enter cells. We also study how during division, cells control their size, organelle architecture and membrane traffic.

Keywords: Membrane traffic / endocytosis / virology / clathrin / single-molecule live-cell imaging / crystallography / cryo-EM

Subject area(s): Membranes & Transport | Proteins & Biochemistry | Structural Biology & Biophysics