EMBO Associate Member
William T. Wickner
EMBO 2000
Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, United States
Fusion of biological membranes
We study membrane fusion mechanisms with yeast vacuoles, from cell physiology to the fusion of the purified organelle, to reconstitution as a chemically defined reaction with specified lipids and purified proteins.
Keywords
Organelle trafficking / S. cerevisiae / vacuoles (lysosomes)