University of Virginia Health System

  WANTED! - UVa student with expertise in Java and Matlab to help set up control of an automated spinning disk confocal microscope using micro-manager, an Opensource software package.  Part-time during school year is OK.

Interested? - please contact Luke McCaffrey at lmm7t@virginia.edu or 982-0083, or Ian Macara at igm9c@virginia.edu (982-0074)

Ian G. Macara, Ph.D.

Telephone: 434.982.0074 (office)/ 0083 (lab)
Fax: 434.924.1236
E-mail: imacara@virginia.edu

Lab Location:
                Room 7191
                Hospital West, HSC                                                University of Virginia School of Medicine                                 Charlottesville VA 22908-0577

Research Interests: Cell polarization mechanisms in epithelia and neurons; epithelial morphogenesis in mammary glands, and breast cancer; polarity proteins as tumor suppressors; RNA localization; dendritic spine morphogenesis; N-terminal methylation of proteins.

Personnel: OPENINGS AVAILABLE - for postdocs and graduate students, particularly those with interests in  mouse models of mammary morphogenesis and breast cancer (using lentiviral transduction of stem cells - see McCaffrey and Macara, Genes & Development, 2009), epithelial cell polarity, and siRNA screens.

NEW! - We are also looking for a postdoc to work with an international team (Switzerland, New Zealand) on a new HFSP project to identify the zipcodes in a large family of localized RNAs (see: Mili et al, Nature, 2008). Click here to learn more!