Current
Research Projects
Our research focuses on
the structural and regulatory mechanisms that drive cell
division. Much of our effort has been directed toward
understanding the mechanisms that drive furrow invagination during
cytokinesis and how this process is regulated with respect to other
mitotic events. A second related focus of our group is to
understand the mechanisms by which the widespread bacterial
endosymbiont Wolbachia alters
core host cellular processes to ensure its successful vertical
transmission in insects. This work has also led us to explore the
origin of centrosomes in parthenogenetic insects.
