Joachim Seemann, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Endowed Title: Virginia Murchison Linthicum Scholar in Medical Research

Department: Cell Biology

Graduate Programs: Cancer Biology, Cell Regulation

Biography

Max-Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry

Education

Graduate School University of Stuttgart - Germany (), Biology
Graduate School "max-planck-institute for Biophyscial Chem.,german (1996)

Research Interests

  • Biogenesis of the Golgi apparatus
  • Cell migration
  • Membrane traffic
  • Mitosis

Publications

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Golgi biogenesis

Wang Y and Seemann J Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology 2011

Nakiterpiosin targets tubulin and triggers mitotic catastrophe in human cancer cells

Wei JH, Seemann J Molecular Cancer Therapeutics 2010 9 3375-3385

The mitotic spindle mediates inheritance of the Golgi ribbon structure

Wei JH, Seemann J The Journal of Cell Biology 2009 184 391-397

Induction of asymmetrical cell division to analyze spindle-dependent organelle partitioning using correlative microscopy techniques

Wei JH, Seemann J Nature Prot 2009 4 1653-1662

Spatial separation of Golgi and ER during mitosis protects SREBP from unregulated activation

Bartz R, Sun LP, Bisel B, Wei JH, Seemann J EMBO J 2008 27 948-955

ERK regulates Golgi and centrosome orientation towards the leading edge through GRASP65

Bisel B, Wang Y, Wei JH, Xiang Y, Tang D, Miron-Mendoza M, Yoshimura S, Nakamura N, Seemann J The Journal of Cell Biology 2008 182 837-843

Nucleoporin levels regulate cell cycle progression and phase-specific gene expression

Chakraborty P, Wang Y, Wei JH, van Deursen J, Yu H, Malureanu L, Dasso M, Forbes DJ, Levy DE, Seemann* J, Fontoura* BMA Developmental Cell 2008 15 657-667

Golgi cisternal unstacking stimulates COPI vesicle budding and protein transport

Wang Y, Wei JH, Bisel B, Seemann J PLoS ONE 2008 3 e1647

A direct role for GRASP65 as a mitotically regulated Golgi stacking factor

Wang* Y, Seemann* J, Pypaert M, Shorter J, Warren G EMBO J. 2003 22 3279

Partitioning of the matrix fraction of the Golgi apparatus during mitosis in animal cells

Seemann J, Pypaert M, Taguchi T, Malsam J, Warren G Science 2002 295 848

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Honors/Awards

  • Virginia Murchison Lithicum Scholar in Medical Research
    UT Southwestern Endowed Scholar (2003)
  • Imperial Cancer Research Fund
    Postdoctoral Fellowship (1999)
  • German Research Foundation
    Postdoctoral Fellowship (1997)
  • Max Planck Society
    Graduate Fellowship (1994)

Professional Associations/Affiliations

  • American Society for Cell Biology