FIRST Fellow - Lea Alford, Ph.D.



	Lea M. Alford, Ph.D. Department of Cell Biology Emory University School of Medicine Research Mentor: Winfield S. Sale, Ph.D., Professor

Education B.A., Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2003 Ph.D., Biology, Boston College, Boston, MA, 2009 1st year FIRST Postdoctoral Fellow, 2009 - present

Research Statement

Publications Alford, L.M., Ng, M.M., Burgess, D.R. (2009) Cell polarity emerges at first cleavage in sea urchin embryos. Dev Biol., 330(1):12-20. Epub 2009 Mar 17. Alford, L.M., Burgess, D.R. (2008) Cytokinesis: a new lipid aboard the raft. Curr Biol.,18(19):R921-3. Mayer, C., Filopei, J., Batac, J., Alford, L., Paluh, J.L. (2006) An extended anaphase signaling pathway for Mad2p includes microtubule organizing center proteins and multiple motor-dependent transitions. Cell Cycle, 5(13):1456-63.

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