Jocelyn McDonald

Jocelyn A. McDonald, Ph.D.

Assistant Staff

Department of Molecular Genetics
Lerner Research Institute / NE20
9500 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio 44195
Telephone: (216) 444-3285
Fax: (216) 444-0512
Email: mcdonaj@ccf.org

Area of General Interest:

Mechanisms regulating cellular movement within the three-dimensional environment of tissues during development and disease

Current program:

  • Identifying key genetic regulators of in vivo cell migration using Drosophila
  • Understanding the regulation of cell polarity and the cytoskeleton within tissues
  • Function(s) of the Par-1/Mark1-4 serine-threonine kinases during development
  • Conserved roles of double-stranded RNA-binding proteins

Investigators:

  • George Gil Aranjuez, M.S., Graduate Student
  • Ashley Burtscher, B.S., Technologist
  • Pralay Majumder, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow
  • Ketki Sawant, M.S., Graduate Student

Collaborators:

  • Stephen Rogers, Ph.D., Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Alan Zhu, Ph.D., Department of Cell Biology
  • Ganes Sen, Ph.D., Department of Molecular Genetics
  • Erika Geisbrecht, Ph.D., Division of Cell Biology and Biophysics, University of Missouri - Kansas City