Lois S Weisman
Sarah Winans Newman Collegiate Professor in the Life Sciences
Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
Medical School and Research Professor
Life Sciences Institute
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Lois S Weisman
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      Rogel Cancer Center
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      Caswell Diabetes Institute
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    • Journal Article
      A genome-wide screen identifies genes required for erythroid differentiation
      Myers G, Friedman A, Yu L, Pourmandi N, Kerpet C, Ito MA, Saba R, Tang V, Ozel AB, Bergin IL, Johnson CN, Ku CJ, Wang Y, Balbin-Cuesta G, Lim KC, Lin Z, Drysdale C, McGee B, Kurita R, Nakamura Y, Liu X, Siemieniak D, Singh SA, Lyssiotis CA, Maillard I, Weisman LS, Engel JD, Khoriaty R. Nature Communications, 2025 Dec 1; 16 (1): DOI:10.1038/s41467-025-58739-w
      PMID: 40221460
    • Journal Article
      Editorial Overview - Membrane traffic; orchestrating the symphony of life
      Parton RG, Weisman LS. Current Opinion in Cell Biology, 2025 Aug 1; 95: DOI:10.1016/j.ceb.2025.102532
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      Cargo adaptors use a handhold mechanism to engage with myosin V for organelle transport
      Hahn HJ, Pashkova N, Cianfrocco MA, Weisman LS. Journal of Cell Biology, 2025 Jul 7; 224 (7): DOI:10.1083/jcb.202408006
      PMID: 40377475
    • Journal Article
      VAC14 oligomerization is essential for the function of the FAB1/PIKfyve-VAC14-FIG4 complex.
      Zhang L, Uygun T, Hahn HJ, Liu Y, Rivero-Ríos P, Li D, Navratna V, Bristow E, Luo G, Kovarzin A, Bo Y, Gadde S, Côté M, Ko DC, Mosalaganti S, Reinisch KM, Weisman LS. Mol Biol Cell, 2025 Apr 30; mbcE24110490 DOI:10.1091/mbc.E24-11-0490
      PMID: 40305106
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      Cargo adaptors use a handhold mechanism to engage with myosin V for organelle transport.
      Hahn HJ, Pashkova N, Cianfrocco MA, Weisman LS. 2025 Mar 25; DOI:10.1101/2025.03.24.645041
      PMID: 40196620
    • Journal Article
      Targeting PIKfyve-driven lipid metabolism in pancreatic cancer
      Cheng C, Hu J, Mannan R, He T, Bhattacharyya R, Magnuson B, Wisniewski JP, Peters S, Karim SA, MacLean DJ, Karabürk H, Zhang L, Rossiter NJ, Zheng Y, Xiao L, Li C, Awad D, Mahapatra S, Bao Y, Zhang Y, Cao X, Wang Z, Mehra R, Morlacchi P, Sahai V, Pasca di Magliano M, Shah YM, Weisman LS, Morton JP, Ding K, Qiao Y, Lyssiotis CA, Chinnaiyan AM. Nature, 2025 Jan 1; DOI:10.1038/s41586-025-08917-z
    • Journal Article
      Basic Science and Pathogenesis
      Rivero-Rios P, Uygun T, Chavis GD, Sutton MA, Weisman LS. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association, 2024 Dec 1; 20: e086935 DOI:10.1002/alz.086935
      PMID: 39751806
    • Preprint
      A non-canonical CDK, Pho85 regulates the restart of the cell-cycle following stress.
      Jin N, Jin Y, Oikawa Y, Nakano A, Ohsumi Y, Weisman LS. 2024 Aug 27; DOI:10.1101/2024.08.27.609989
      PMID: 39253458
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    New view of cellular delivery trucks reveals unexpected hitch
    The Life Sciences Institute News reported research from the Weisman lab on how a class of proteins uses a transport system to reach their destinations in the cell.
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    New Publication by Lily Hahn (Weisman lab)!
    The Journal of Cell Biology published "Cargo adaptors use a handhold mechanism to engage with myosin V for organelle transport."
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    Congratulations to Craig Johnson and Lois Weisman!
    Congratulations to our Endowment for Basic Sciences (EBS) winners Craig Johnson, CDB Bioinformatician/Computational Biologist, and Lois Weisman, Sarah Winans Newman Collegiate Professor in the Life Sciences and CDB Professor.
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    Pilar Rivero-Rios and Lois Weisman just published a Perspective in Science
    Pilar Rivero-Rios and Lois Weisman just published a Perspective in Science