Mark Terasaki
Associate Professor

Department of Cell Biology
University of Connecticut Health Center
Farmington, CT 06032

phone 860 679 2695
fax 860 679 1661
email terasaki@neuron.uchc.edu

Research interests

Mechanism of nuclear envelope breakdown; structure and function of the endoplasmic reticulum; plasma membrane re-sealing

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Recent publications

Lowe, C.J., Terasaki, M., Wu, M., Freeman, R., Runft, L., Kwan, K., Haigo, S., Aronowicz, J., Lander, E., Gruber, C., Kirschner, M., and Gerhart, J.  2006.  Dorsoventral patterning in hemichordates: insights into early chordate evolution.  PLOS 4: e291

Terasaki, M. 2006. Fluorescence quantitation in thick specimens, with an application to cyclin B-GFP expression in starfish oocytes. Biol. Cell 98: 245-252. pdf

Fein, A., and Terasaki, M. 2005. Rapid increase in plasma membrane chloride permeability during wound resealing in starfish oocytes. J. Gen. Physiol. 126: 151-159 pdf

Lenart, P., Daigle, N., Bacher, C., Hand, A.R. , Eils, R., Terasaki, M., and Ellenberg, J. 2005.  A contractile nuclear actin network drives chromosome congression in oocytes. Nature 436: 812-818 pdf

Terasaki, M., Okumura, E., Hinkle, B., and Kishimoto, T. 2003. Localization and dynamics of Cdc2-cyclin B during meiotic reinitation in starfish oocytes. Mol. Biol. Cell 14:4685-4694. pdf

Slepchenko, B.M., and Terasaki, M. 2003. Cyclin aggregation and robustness of bio-switching. Mol. Biol. Cell 14: 4695-4706. pdf

Galbraith, J.A., and Terasaki, M. 2003. Controlled damage in thick specimens by multiphoton excitation. Mol. Biol. Cell 14: 1808-1817. pdf

Hinkle, B., Slepchenko, B., Rolls, M.M., Walther, T.C., Stein, P.A., Mehlmann, L.M., Ellenberg, J., and Terasaki, M. 2002. Chromosomal association of Ran during meiotic and mitotic divisions. J. Cell Sci. 115: 4685-4693. pdf

Terasaki, M., Runft, L., and Hand, A. 2001. Changes in organization of the endoplasmic reticulum during Xenopus oocyte maturation and egg activation. Mol. Biol. Cell 12: 1103-1116. pdf

Terasaki, M., Campagnola, P., Rolls, M.M., Stein, P., Ellenberg, J., Hinkle, B., and Slepchenko, B. 2001. A new model for nuclear envelope breakdown. Mol. Biol. Cell 12: 503-510. pdf

 

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