Kraig T. Kumfer
| PhD |
Cellular and Molecular Biology |
| Research Experience |
Brandeis University, Rosenthiel Center, 2000-02
Indiana University School of Medicine, summer 1997 and summer 1998
The attainment of a defined axis of polarity is a necessary prerequisite for a cell to execute diverse functions, such as directed motility, the generation of daughter cells with different differentiated states and for the morphogenesis of ensembles of cells into organs.
I have begun using a combination of reverse genetics, cell biology and microscopy techniques to elucidate the establishment and maintenance of cell polarity in the C. elegans embryo. |
| Publications | Kumfer KT, Cook SJ, Squirrell JM, Eliceiri KW, Peel N, O'Connell KF, White JG. 2010. CGEF-1 and CHIN-1 regulate CDC-42 activity during asymmetric division in the C. elegans embryo. Mol Biol Cell 21:266-77. PMCID: 2808230 |
| Presentations |
Poster: 41st Annual Meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology, Dec. 8-12, 2001. Kraig Kumfer and Michael A. Welte. A Genetic Screen for Regulators of Microtubule-Based Organelle Transport. (Welte presented)
Poster: 43rd Annual Drosophila Research Conference, April 10-14, 2002. Kraig Kumfer and Michael A. Welte. A Genetic Screen for Regulators of Microtubule-Based Organelle Transport. (Kumfer presented) |
| Abstracts | Abstract: Dickson TJ, Gurudutt V, Nguyen AQ, Kumfer K, Maxted W, Brown J, Mahomed Y, Sharp T, Aufiero TX, Fineberg N, March KL. (1999). Establishment of a clinically correlated human pericardial fluid bank: evaluation of intrapericardial diagnostic potential. Clinical Cardiology 22, I40-2. |