Rory Duncan: Random organelle dynamics shaped by navigation through a molecular interaction landscape; aka What’s the point of super-resolution imaging?



External Seminar Institute of Molecular Cell and Systems Biology
25.10.2017

Prof Rory Duncan

Heriot Watt University



Papers mentioned in the talk: 

Rory R. Duncan, Jennifer Greaves, Ulrich K. Wiegand, Ioulia Matskevich, Georg Bodammer, David K. Apps, Michael J. Shipston and Robert H. Chow  Nature doi:10.1038/nature01389

Navigation through the Plasma Membrane Molecular Landscape Shapes Random Organelle Movement. Dun AR, Lord GJ, Wilson RS, Kavanagh DM, Cialowicz KI, Sugita S, Park S, Yang L, Smyth AM, Papadopulos A, Rickman C, Duncan RR.
Curr Biol. 2017 Feb 6;27(3):408-414. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.12.002. Epub 2017 Jan 12.

Anatomy and dynamics of a supramolecular membrane protein cluster. Sieber JJ, Willig KI, Kutzner C, Gerding-Reimers C, Harke B, Donnert G, Rammner B, Eggeling C, Hell SW, Grubmüller H, Lang T. Science. 2007 Aug 24;317(5841):1072-6.
Automated single particle detection and tracking for large microscopy datasets Wilson, R. S., Yang, L., Dun, A., Smyth, A. M., Duncan, R. R., Rickman, C. & Lu, W. May 2016 In : Royal Society Open Science. 3, 5, 160225

Functional, quantitative, and super-resolution imaging and spectroscopic approaches for studying exocytosis Duncan, R. R. & Rickman, C. 2014 Exocytosis Methods. Vol. 83, p. 75-91 17 p

Munc18/syntaxin interaction kinetics control secretory vesicle dynamics Rickman, C. & Duncan, R. R. 5 Feb 2010 In : Journal of Biological Chemistry. 285, 6, p. 3965-3972 8


More about Rory: https://researchportal.hw.ac.uk/en/persons/rory-r-duncan


Artist in Residence: Hannah Imlach