Nurhan Ozlu I am interested in investigating how the actomyosin cytoskeleton is controlled by microtubules during cytokinesis.

Email: nurhan_ozlu * hms.harvard.edu

Publications Ozlu N, Monigatti F, Renard BY, Field CM, Steen H, Mitchison TJ, Steen JJ. Binding partner switching on microtubules and aurora-B in the mitosis to cytokinesis transition. Mol Cell Proteomics. 2009 Sep 28; [Epub ahead of print] PubMed Ozlu N, Srayko M, Kinoshita K, Habermann B, O'toole ET, Muller-Reichert T, Schmalz N, Desai A, Hyman AA. An essential function of the C. elegans ortholog of TPX2 is to localize activated aurora A kinase to mitotic spindles. Dev Cell. 2005 Aug;9(2):237-48. PubMed Kurz T, Ozlu N, Rudolf F, O'Rourke SM, Luke B, Hofmann K, Hyman AA, Bowerman B, Peter M. The conserved protein DCN-1/Dcn1p is required for cullin neddylation in C. elegans and S. cerevisiae. Nature. 2005 Jun 30;435(7046):1257-61. PubMed Pelletier L, Ozlu N, Hannak E, Cowan C, Habermann B, Ruer M, Muller-Reichert T, Hyman AA. The Caenorhabditis elegans centrosomal protein SPD-2 is required for both pericentriolar material recruitment and centriole duplication. Curr Biol. 2004 May 25;14(10):863-73. PubMed Gonczy P, Echeverri C, Oegema K, Coulson A, Jones SJ, Copley RR, Duperon J, Oegema J, Brehm M, Cassin E, Hannak E, Kirkham M, Pichler S, Flohrs K, Goessen A, Leidel S, Alleaume AM, Martin C, Ozlu N, Bork P, Hyman AA. Functional genomic analysis of cell division in C. elegans using RNAi of genes on chromosome III. Nature. 2000 Nov 16;408(6810):331-6. PubMed