Where they are now
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Program Director / Health Science Administrator
National Institutes of Health
Rusan Lab · NIH · 2012–2016
Work in the Rusan Lab
Karen’s work in the lab focused on centrosome protein interactions and microtubule organization, including CP190, Asterless, and live imaging of Drosophila neural stem cells.
Selected papers from the lab
- The E3 Ligase Poe Promotes Pericentrin Degradation.
- Stu2 uses a 15 nm parallel coiled coil for kinetochore localization and concomitant regulation of the mitotic spindle
- Newly Characterized Region of CP190 Associates with Microtubules and Mediates Proper Spindle Morphology in Drosophila Stem Cells
- Two Polo-like kinase 4 binding domains in Asterless perform distinct roles in regulating kinase stability
- Live imaging of Drosophila larval neuroblasts
After the Rusan Lab
Postdoctoral Fellow · NICHD, NIH · Mary Dasso laboratory