User:Katie B Shannon

Dr. Shannon in the Cellular Imaging Facility

Katie B Shannon Department of Biological Sciences Missouri University of Science and Technology 105 Schrenk Hall 400 W. 11th St. Rolla, MO 65409 shannonk@mst.edu (573) 341-6336

I run the Cytokinesis Lab at Missouri University of Science and Technology.

Research Interests

1. Assembly and Contraction of the Actomyosin Ring in Budding Yeast
2. Microscopy
3. Synthetic Biology and iGEM
4. Cellular Uptake and Transport of Nanoparticles

Education

• 2000, PhD, Cell and Developmental Biology, Harvard Medical School
• 1994, BA with Honors in Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Publications

1. Stayton I, Winiarz J, Shannon K, and Ma Y. Study of uptake and loss of silica nanoparticles in living human lung epithelial cells at single cell level. Anal Bioanal Chem. 2009 Jul;394(6):1595-608. DOI:10.1007/s00216-009-2839-0 |
1. Shannon KB and Li R. A myosin light chain mediates the localization of the budding yeast IQGAP-like protein during contractile ring formation. Curr Biol. 2000 Jun 15;10(12):727-30. DOI:10.1016/s0960-9822(00)00539-x |
1. Shannon KB and Salmon ED. Chromosome dynamics: new light on Aurora B kinase function. Curr Biol. 2002 Jul 9;12(13):R458-60. DOI:10.1016/s0960-9822(02)00945-4 |
1. Shannon KB and Li R. The multiple roles of Cyk1p in the assembly and function of the actomyosin ring in budding yeast. Mol Biol Cell. 1999 Feb;10(2):283-96. DOI:10.1091/mbc.10.2.283 |
1. Shannon KB, Canman JC, and Salmon ED. Mad2 and BubR1 function in a single checkpoint pathway that responds to a loss of tension. Mol Biol Cell. 2002 Oct;13(10):3706-19. DOI:10.1091/mbc.e02-03-0137 |
1. Shannon KB, Canman JC, Ben Moree C, Tirnauer JS, and Salmon ED. Taxol-stabilized microtubules can position the cytokinetic furrow in mammalian cells. Mol Biol Cell. 2005 Sep;16(9):4423-36. DOI:10.1091/mbc.e04-11-0974 |
1. Milne GT, Jin S, Shannon KB, and Weaver DT. Mutations in two Ku homologs define a DNA end-joining repair pathway in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Mol Cell Biol. 1996 Aug;16(8):4189-98. DOI:10.1128/MCB.16.8.4189 |
1. Canman JC, Sharma N, Straight A, Shannon KB, Fang G, and Salmon ED. Anaphase onset does not require the microtubule-dependent depletion of kinetochore and centromere-binding proteins. J Cell Sci. 2002 Oct 1;115(Pt 19):3787-95. DOI:10.1242/jcs.00057 |
1. Lippincott J, Shannon KB, Shou W, Deshaies RJ, and Li R. The Tem1 small GTPase controls actomyosin and septin dynamics during cytokinesis. J Cell Sci. 2001 Apr;114(Pt 7):1379-86. DOI:10.1242/jcs.114.7.1379 |

1. =17631663 This is a very interesting PMID

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