William (Bill) Bement
Credentials: Laboratory of Cell and Molecular Biology & Integrative Biology Department
Position title: Signal transduction, cell division, and cytoskeleton
Email: wmbement@facstaff.wisc.edu
Phone: (608) 262-5683
Address:
335 Robert M Bock Lab
1525 Linden Dr
Madison, WI 53706
LAB WEBSITE:
FOCUS GROUPS:
Cell Adhesion & Cytoskeleton; Developmental Biology & Regenerative Medicine
RESEARCH DESCRIPTION:
We seek to understand how cells build transient cytoskeletal structures at the right place and right time. Such structures include the cytokinetic apparatus (which pinches the cell in half) and the “wound array”, a cytoskeletal structure that forms around and closes over the sites of cell damage. In each case we are particularly interested in understanding how the relevant signals (ie for cytokinesis or cell repair) are generated and interpreted by the cell to result in the assembly and closure of the structure in question. We conceptualize these processes in terms of single cell pattern formation: in each case the cell somehow manages to develop a precise signaling pattern at the cell cortex and then converts this pattern into the appropriate structure.
ALSO A TRAINER IN THE FOLLOWING PROGRAMS:
Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology (MCP)