Paul G. FitzGerald
Professor
pgfitzgerald@ucdavis.edu
Cell Biology & Human Anatomy
Office
3420 Tupper Hall
+1 530 752 7130
Degrees:
1982
PhD
UCLA Medical School
Cell Biology and Anatomy
Awards:
Bradley Staatsma Lecturer, UCLA Medical School
Department and Center Affiliations:
Dept of Cell Biology and Human Anatomy
Professional Societies:
Am Society for Cell Biology, Assoc for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology
CBS Graduate Group Affiliations:
Biochemistry, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
Specialties / Focus:
Biochemistry, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
Organelle and Cytoskeleton Dynamics
Publications:
Last updated 5/21/2010
2008 Kyoung-he Yoon, Tom Blankenship, Bradley Shibata, and Paul FitzGerald Resisting the effects of aging: A function for the lens Beaded Filament Investigative Opthalmology and Visual Science (In Press)
2007 Madhu Budamagunta, John Hess, Paul FitzGerald and John Voss Describing the structure and assembly of protein filaments by EPR spectroscopy of spin labeled side chains. Cell Biochem and Biophys (In Press)
2007 Blankenship, T, Bradshaw, L, Shibata, B, and FitzGerald P Structural specializations emerging late in mouse lens fiber cell differentiation. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science 2007 48: 3269-3276
2007 Pittenger, JT, Hess, JF, and FitzGerald, PG Identifying the role of specific motifs in the lens fiber cell-specific intermediate filament protein phakosin. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science (In Press)
2006 John F. Hess, Madhu S. Budamagunta, Rebecca L Shipman, Paul G. FitzGerald, John C. Voss, Ph.D Characterization of the Linker 1-2 Region in Human Vimentin Using Site Directed Spin Labeling and Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Biochemistry 45:11737-43.
2005 Hess, John., Madhu S. Budamagunta, Paul FitzGerald, John C. Voss. Characterization of Structural Changes in Vimentin Bearing an EBS-like Mutation Using Site Directed Spin Labeling and Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Journal of Biological Chemistry 280:2141-6
2004 Hess, John., Madhu S. Budamagunta, Paul G.FitzGerald, John C. Voss. Characterization of Structural Changes in Vimentin Bearing an EBS-like Mutation Using Site Directed Spin Labeling and Electron Paramagnetic Resonance J. Biological Chemistry (In Press)
Laboratory Personnel:
John Hess, Ph.D., Research Cell Biologist
Tom Blankenship, Ph.D., Research Cell Biologist
Kyoung-hye Yoon, Graduate Student, Cell and Developmental Biology
Atya Aziz, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Andrew Yokovlev, BS
Rsearch Associate
Michael Stout
Staff Research Associate
Teaching Interests:
Medical Microscopic Anatomy, CHA 402
Techniques in cell Biology, CDB 200
The Visual System, NSC 298
Med Microbiology and Immunology MMI 480A
Med Micro and Immunology MMI 188