Kendra Burbank I've been making a mathematical model for how microtubules and motors interact to form the spindle.

Email: burbank * fas.harvard.edu

Publications Burbank KS, Mitchison TJ, Fisher DS. Slide-and-Cluster Models for Spindle Assembly. Curr Biol. 2007 Aug 14; [Epub ahead of print] PubMed Ohi R, Burbank K, Liu Q, Mitchison TJ. Nonredundant functions of Kinesin-13s during meiotic spindle assembly. Curr Biol. 2007 Jun 5;17(11):953-9. Epub 2007 May 17. PubMed Burbank KS, Groen AC, Perlman ZE, Fisher DS, Mitchison TJ. A new method reveals microtubule minus ends throughout the meiotic spindle. J Cell Biol. 2006 Nov 6;175(3):369-75. PubMed Burbank KS, Mitchison TJ. Microtubule dynamic instability. Curr Biol. 2006 Jul 25;16(14):R516-7. PubMed Miyamoto DT, Perlman ZE, Burbank KS, Groen AC, Mitchison TJ. The kinesin Eg5 drives poleward microtubule flux in Xenopus laevis egg extract spindles. J Cell Biol. 2004 Dec 6;167(5):813-8. PubMed Full Text