[Plantsci] FW: Seminar visit of Dr. Susanne Rafelski

[Lambert, Georgina M - (glambert)]

On Behalf of David Galbraith

Dr. Susanne Rafelski will be presenting a seminar entitled "Creating a state space of cell structural signatures: integrated cellular reorganization during division and differentiation" on Tuesday January 22, at 4:00 pm. Her seminar is cosponsored by MCB and Plant Sciences.  If you are interested in meeting Susanne, please fill out the following itinerary in google docs: (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tfSndz92jnBAeknTbH-ZmPgCDAuEy7zPPu-aTC9e6NA/edit?usp=sharing).  If you have any questions, please let me know by email (galbraith at arizona.edu<mailto:galbraith at arizona.edu>).


Dr. Rafelski Biosketch:

The information below is abstracted from the website of the Allen Institute for Cell Science, where Susanne holds the position of Director for Assay Development. Susanne worked as an undergraduate in my laboratory at UA just prior to the turn of the century, using confocal microscopy to chart in vivo organelle movements in arabidopsis roots transgenically expressing a nuclear-targeted form of GFP (Chytilova et al. (2000). Nuclear dynamics in Arabidopsis thaliana. MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE CELL 11:2733-2741). Susanne graduated from UA with an undergraduate degree in Biochemistry, MCB and Mathematics.

"Susanne Rafelski has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Developmental and Cell Biology, the Department of Biomedical Engineering, and the Center for Complex Biological Systems at UC Irvine since 2012. Susanne began imaging live cells and visualizing intracellular dynamics in 3D when she was 17 and hasn't been able to stop herself since. Susanne's long-term research objective is to understand the spatial and dynamic organization of the cell at all levels of complexity. As a model system for intracellular organization the Rafelski lab studies the size, topology, and function of mitochondrial networks in budding yeast and mammalian cells. Susanne takes an interdisciplinary, quantitative approach to cell biology, combining live-cell image-based assays, molecular genetics, and computational methods.

Susanne obtained her B.S. in Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology with an additional emphasis in Mathematics from the University of Arizona. Susanne then completed her Ph.D. in Biochemistry at Stanford University, followed by a postdoc at the Center for Cell Dynamics at the Friday Harbor Labs, University of Washington, where she learned computational modeling approaches. Her research focused on integrating bacterial polarity with host-cell cytoskeletal dynamics to understand Listeria actin-based motility. Susanne then initiated her current research program on mitochondrial structure-function as a postdoc at UCSF, where she developed 3D microscopy and image analysis methods to quantify mitochondrial morphology and applied these to investigate mitochondrial size control regulation.

Susanne is committed to quantitative approaches to cell biology. She has organized the Building the Cell subgroup meeting at the annual ASCB meeting for the past three years and is a board member for the new NSF-sponsored Quantitative Cell Biology Network (QCBnet). She has also enjoyed sharing her fascination of the mysteries of the cell with students through teaching at the undergraduate and graduate level, and with the general community, especially at the high school level, through public lectures, numerous lab tours and an educational materials website".


Georgina Lambert
Program Coordinator, Sr.
School of Plant Sciences
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721
Office  520-621-1219
FAX 520-621-7186

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