User:Jessica Polka
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Contact Info
- Jessica Polka
- Postdoc, lab of Pamela Silver
- Systems Biology Dept, Harvard Medical School
- 200 Longwood Avenue WAB 561
- Boston MA 02115
Education
- 2012, PhD, University of California San Francisco (lab of R. Dyche Mullins)
- 2007, BS, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (lab of Ted Salmon)
Research interests
- Bacterial Cytoskeleton
- Carboxysome organization
Publications
- Polka JK and Silver PA. Building synthetic cellular organization. Mol Biol Cell. 2013 Dec;24(23):3585-7. DOI:10.1091/mbc.E13-03-0155 |
- Chen AH, Robinson-Mosher A, Savage DF, Silver PA, and Polka JK. The bacterial carbon-fixing organelle is formed by shell envelopment of preassembled cargo. PLoS One. 2013;8(9):e76127. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0076127 |
- Rivera CR, Kollman JM, Polka JK, Agard DA, and Mullins RD. Architecture and assembly of a divergent member of the ParM family of bacterial actin-like proteins. J Biol Chem. 2011 Apr 22;286(16):14282-90. DOI:10.1074/jbc.M110.203828 |
- Kollman JM, Polka JK, Zelter A, Davis TN, and Agard DA. Microtubule nucleating gamma-TuSC assembles structures with 13-fold microtubule-like symmetry. Nature. 2010 Aug 12;466(7308):879-82. DOI:10.1038/nature09207 |
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structure and assembly dynamics of plasmid actin AlfA imply a novel mechanism of DNA segregation. pmid=19666709
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for kinetochore-microtubule attachment from the structure of an engineered Ndc80 complex. pmid=18455984
