Cell Contact & Extracellular Matrix

Argraves lab, Medical University of South Carolina (molecular basis for ECM function)
Ginsberg lab, University of California, San Diego (genetic strategies for analysis of integrin signaling)
Healy lab, Berkeley (artificial ECM biomimetic materials)
Plopper lab, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (interaction of adhesion proteins with ECM molecules)
Schwarzbauer lab, Princeton (cell-ECM interactions in C elegans)

Cell Differentiation & Development

Blau lab, Stanford (mechanisms controlling stem cell fate & nuclear reprogramming)
De Camilli lab, Yale (development and function of neuronal synapses)
Goldstein lab, UNC Chapel Hill (roles of cytoskeletal dynamics in development, in C. elegans)
Hogan lab, Duke University (molecular mechanisms underlying organ development)
Karsenti lab, European Molecular Biology Lab (self-organization principles in cell morphogenesis)
Lodish lab, MIT (hematopoiesis, muscle differentiation, adipocyte differentiation)
Meyer lab, Berkeley (mechanisms of cell fate commitment in C. elegans)
Morrison lab, University of Michigan (regulation of stem cell function)
Smith-Sommerville lab, The University of Alabama (signal-mediated differentiation in the ciliate T. vorax):
Sardet lab, Marine Station, Villefranche sur Mer, France (reproduction, fertilization and development of ascidians, ctenophores, chaetognaths, cnidarians and sea urchins)

Cell Division , Growth & Death

A to Z, Mitosis Principal Investigators
Bloom lab, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (chromosome and spindle dynamics)
Desai lab, University of California - San Diego (Cell Division, Centromere, Chromosome Segregation):
Forsburg lab, University of Southern California (DNA replication, cell cycle, and chromosome dynamics in the fission yeast S. pombe)
Kapoor lab, Rockefeller University (chromosome segregation)
Klionsky lab, University of Michigan (autophagy)
Mitchison lab, Harvard (actin, microtubules and chromatin structure)
Salmon lab, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (mitosis, microtubules, microscopy)

Cell Regulation

Emr lab, Cornell (membrane trafficking, cell signaling, endocytosis, receptor down-regulation)
Farquhar lab, University of California, San Diego (interplay between cell signaling and protein trafficking)
Heldin lab, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Uppsala, Sweden (signal transduction downstream of PDGF receptors)
Pawson lab, Mt Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada (intracellular signal transduction)

Cytoskeleton & Cell Dynamics

Bretscher lab, Cornell (functional organization and regulation of microfilaments in eucaryotic cells)
Burgess lab, Boston College (molecular motors)
Condeelis lab, Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Cell motility, Chemotaxis and Cancer)
Gelfand lab, Northwestern University (mechanisms of intracellular transport)
Goldman lab, Northwestern University (intermediate filaments)
Nedelec lab, European Molecular Biology Lab (microtubule organization, especially in mitosis)
Oegama lab, University of California, San Diego (role of the cytoskeleton in the morphogenetic transformations required for cell division in C elegans)
Ridley lab, LICR London (mechanisms of cell migration)
Ross lab, University of Pennsylvania (biophysics of microtubules and molecular motors)
Spudich lab, Stanford (molecular basis of cell motility)

Membranes & Organelles

Dutcher lab, Washington University School of Medicine (structure and function of basal bodies in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii)
Heuser lab, Washington University/St Louis (membrane budding and fusion, synaptic vesicle discharge, movement of cilia and flagella, muscle contraction)
Howell lab, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center (structure and function of the Golgi complex):
Lippincott-Schwartz lab, NICHD (secretory membrane trafficking, sorting and compartmentalization in eukaryotic cells):
Sluder lab, University of Massachusetts Medical School (centrosome reproduction)
Terasaki Lab, University of Connecticut (mechanism of nuclear envelope breakdown; structure and function of the endoplasmic reticulum; plasma membrane re-sealing)

Nucleus & Gene Expression

Blackburn lab, UCSF (telomeres and chromosome structure)
Ellenberg lab, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany (nuclear envelope structure and function in living cells)
Gall lab, Carnegie Institute of Washington (nuclear organelles in the synthesis and processing of RNA)
Kane lab, Berkeley (gene expression in eukaryotic cells):
Koshland lab, Carnegie Institute of Washington (chromosome structure, integrity and evolution)
Spector lab, Cold Spring Harbor Lab (intranuclear dynamics, gene expression)
Wente lab, Vanderbilt (nuclear pore complex)

Plant Cell Biology

A to Z, Arabidopsis Principal Investigators
Amasino lab, University of Wisconsin, Madison (regulation of plant development; specifically, floral induction and plant senescence)
Bartel lab, Rice University (genetic approaches to understanding peroxisome biogenesis, microRNAs, and plant responses to and metabolism of the growth hormone auxin)
Hawes lab, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK (plant endomembranes research)
Meyerowitz lab, Cal Tech (plant development):

Systems Biology

Alon lab, Weizmann Institute (transcription networks from bacteria to mammals)
Gunawardena lab, Harvard, (virtual cell program)
O'Shea lab, Harvard (systems and molecular analysis of signal transduction and transcriptional regulation)
Palsson lab, University of California, San Diego (metabolic systems biology)
Sauro lab, University of Washington (computational systems biology)

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