Lois S Weisman

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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

    Recent Publications

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    • Journal Article
      Dual endomembrane recycling pathways function in parallel to support synapse maintenance and plasticity
      Chavis GD, Rivero-Ríos P, Uygun T, Tsukahara T, Hayami T, Lee GY, Lee M, Pace C, Czesak FN, Hilde KL, Li F, Iwase S, Murphy GG, Morrow JD, Akil H, Weisman LS, Sutton MA. Neuroscience, 2025 Dec 15; 591: 205 - 221. DOI:10.1016/j.neuroscience.2025.11.009
      PMID: 41238049
    • 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
      PI(3)P coordinates SNX17- and SNX27-dependent protein recycling for long-term synaptic plasticity
      Rivero-Ríos P, Uygun T, Chavis GD, Lee H, Duan B, Sutton MA, Weisman LS. Journal of Cell Biology, 2025 Nov 3; 224 (11): DOI:10.1083/jcb.202411198
      PMID: 40920104
    • 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
      PMID: 40441072
    • Journal Article
      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. Molecular Biology of the Cell, 2025 Jul 1; 36 (7): DOI:10.1091/mbc.E24-11-0490
      PMID: 40305106
    • 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 Jun 19; 642 (8068): 776 - 784. DOI:10.1038/s41586-025-08917-z
      PMID: 40269157
    • Preprint
      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

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    Hüseyin Karabürk receives Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship

    For his dissertation, Karabürk is investigating the molecular mechanisms of how cells move within the body.
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    New Publication by Pilar Rivero-Ríos (Weisman lab)

    New Publication by Pilar Rivero-Ríos (Weisman lab), “PI(3)P coordinates SNX17- and SNX27-dependent protein recycling for long-term synaptic plasticity,” has been published in Journal of Cell Biology.
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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