Thomas Dean Pollard, M.D.

Affiliations: 
1972-1978 Anatomy Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States 
 1977-1996 Cell Biology and Anatomy Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States 
 1996-2001 Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA, United States 
 2001- Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology Yale University, New Haven, CT 
Area:
Cell Biology, Biochemistry, Actin
Website:
http://www.yale.edu/pollard_lab/index.htm
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http://medicine.yale.edu/mbb/faculty/thomas_pollard.profile

Cross-listing: Evolution Tree - Chemistry Tree

Parents

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Edward David Korn post-doc 1970 NIH (NHLBI) (Evolution Tree)

Children

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Satinder Singh grad student Yale (Evolution Tree)
John A. Cooper grad student 1983 Johns Hopkins (Chemistry Tree)
Enrique Manuel De La Cruz grad student 1992-1997 Johns Hopkins Medical School (Evolution Tree)
Magdalena Bezanilla grad student 2000 Johns Hopkins (Evolution Tree)
Wei-Lih Lee grad student 2001 Johns Hopkins (Evolution Tree)
Kirsi F. Turbedsky grad student 2001 Johns Hopkins (Evolution Tree)
Ernesto Andrianantoandro grad student 2006 Yale (Evolution Tree)
Christopher C. Beltzner grad student 2007 Yale (Evolution Tree)
Aditya S. Paul grad student 2008 Yale (Evolution Tree)
Janice E. Friend grad student 2009 Yale (Evolution Tree)
Chikio Chan grad student 2010 Yale (Evolution Tree)
Shih-Chieh Ti grad student 2011 Yale (Evolution Tree)
Shambaditya Saha grad student 2012 Yale (Evolution Tree)
Chad D. McCormick grad student 2013 Yale (Evolution Tree)
Irene R. Tebbs grad student 2013 Yale (Evolution Tree)
Steven Z. Chou post-doc Yale (Evolution Tree)
Daniel P. Kiehart post-doc
David Richard Kovar post-doc Yale
Mark A. McNiven post-doc Johns Hopkins Medical School (Neurotree)
E. Michael Ostap post-doc (Chemistry Tree)
Vladimir Sirotkin post-doc Yale
Dimitrios Vavylonis post-doc (Physics Tree)
Mark S. Mooseker post-doc 1977-1978 Yale (Chemistry Tree)
Ira Herman post-doc 1978-1983 Yale
Anne R. Bresnick post-doc 1991-1996 Yale (Chemistry Tree)
Roland Dyche Mullins post-doc 1994-1998 Salk Institute
Kurt J. Amann post-doc 1999-2002 Salk Institute (Chemistry Tree)
Julien Berro post-doc 2008-2013 Yale (Evolution Tree)
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Pollard TD, Korn ED. (2023) Discovery of the first unconventional myosin: myosin-I. Frontiers in Physiology. 14: 1324623
Chou SZ, Pollard TD. (2023) Cryo-EM structures of both ends of the actin filament explain why the barbed end elongates faster than the pointed end. Biorxiv : the Preprint Server For Biology
Rosenbloom AD, Pollard TD. (2023) The proline-rich domain of fission yeast WASp (Wsp1p) interacts with actin filaments and inhibits actin polymerization. Febs Letters
Chou SZ, Chatterjee M, Pollard TD. (2022) Mechanism of actin filament branch formation by Arp2/3 complex revealed by a high-resolution cryo-EM structureof the branch junction. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 119: e2206722119
Nickaeen M, Berro J, Pollard TD, et al. (2021) A model of actin-driven endocytosis explains differences of endocytic motility in budding and fission yeast. Molecular Biology of the Cell. mbcE21070362
Malla M, Pollard TD, Chen Q. (2021) Counting actin in contractile rings reveals novel contributions of cofilin and type II myosins to fission yeast cytokinesis. Molecular Biology of the Cell. mbcE21080376
Rosenbloom AD, Kovar EW, Kovar DR, et al. (2021) Mechanism of actin filament nucleation. Biophysical Journal
Chou SZ, Pollard TD. (2020) Cryo-electron microscopy structures of pyrene-labeled ADP-P- and ADP-actin filaments. Nature Communications. 11: 5897
Zsolnay V, Katkar HH, Chou SZ, et al. (2020) Structural basis for polarized elongation of actin filaments. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Dundon SER, Pollard TD. (2020) Microtubule Nucleation Promoters Mto1 and Mto2 Regulate Cytokinesis in Fission Yeast. Molecular Biology of the Cell. mbcE19120686
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