Matt Akamatsu, PhD
Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellow
Matt combines mathematical modeling and quantitative fluorescence imaging to study how actin produces force at sites of mammalian endocytosis.
PhD: Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, lab of Tom Pollard
E-mail: matt.akamatsu@berkeley.edu
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Matthew_Akamatsu/contributions
Publications
- Dambournet D., Sochacki K.A., Cheng A.,Akamatsu M.,Taraska J.W., Hockemeyer D., Drubin D.G. Stem cell differentiation reveals cell-type-specific endocytic adaptations. Submitted.
- Akamatsu,M., Lin, Y, Bewersdorf, J, & Pollard, T. D. Analysis of interphase node proteins in fission yeast by quantitative and super resolution fluorescence microscopy. Molecular Biology of the Cell doi:10.1091/mbc.E16-07-0522 (2017).
- Zhao, W., Hanson, W, Lou, H.S.,Akamatsu, M., Chowdary, P. M., Santoro, F, Marks, J. R., Grassart, A, Drubin, D. G., Cui, Y, Cui, B. Nanoscale manipulation of membrane curvatures for probing endocytosis in live cells.Nature Nanotechnology 11, 822 (2017).
- Pu, K. M.,Akamatsu, M., & Pollard, T. D. The septation initiation network controls the assembly of nodes containing Cdr2p for cytokinesis in fission yeast.J Cell Sci 128, 441–446 (2015).
- Akamatsu, M.,Berro, J., Pu, K. M., Tebbs, I. R. & Pollard, T. D. Cytokinetic nodes in fission yeast arise from two distinct types of nodes that merge during interphase. J Cell Biol 204, 977–988 (2014).
- McCormick, C. D.,Akamatsu, M., Ti, S.-C. & Pollard, T. D. Measuring Affinities of Fission Yeast Spindle Pole Body Proteins in Live Cells across the Cell Cycle.Biophysj 105, 1324–1335 (2013).