manuscripts in preparation

Pesce, GC, Rafelski, SM, Bernales, S, Viana, MP, da F. Costa, L, Marshall, WF, Walter, P. A mitotic cell cycle checkpoint controls mitochondrial expansion during cell division. In revision.

research articles (click on title for more information)

Higuchi-Sanabria, R, Charalel, JK, Viana, MP, Garcia, EJ, Sing, CN, Koenigsberg, A, Swayne, TC, Vevea, JD, Boldogh, IR, Rafelski, SM, Pon, LA (2016) Mitochondrial anchorage and fusion contribute to mitochondrial inheritance and quality control in the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Molecular Biology of the Cell, In Press.

Jajoo, R, Jun, Y, Huh, D, Viana, MP, Rafelski, SM, Springer, M, Paulsson, J. (2016) Accurate concentration control of mitochondria and nucleoids. Science 351(6269): 169-72.

Bialecka-Fornal, M, Makushok, T, Rafelski, SM. (2016) A review of fluorescent proteins for use in yeast. Methods in Molecular Biology 1369: 309-46.

Viana, MP*, Lim, S*, Rafelski, SM. (2015) Quantifying mitochondrial content in living cells. Methods in Cell Biology 125: 77-93. [*co-first authors] (Methods chapter describing MitoGraph V2.0)

Rafelski, SM, Viana, MP, Zhang, Y, Chan, YHM, Thorn, KS, Yam, P, Fung, JC, Li, H da F. Costa, L, Marshall, WF. (2012) Mitochondrial network size scaling in budding yeast. Science 338(6108): 822-4.

Wasilewski, M, Semenzato, M, Rafelski, SM, Robbins, JR, Bakardjiev, AI, Scorrano, L. (2012) Optic Atrophy 1-dependent mitochondrial remodeling controls steroidogenesis in trophoblasts. Current Biology 22(13): 1228-34.

Melton-Witt, JA*, Rafelski, SM*, Portnoy, DA, Bakardjiev, AI. Oral infection with signature-tagged Listeria monocytogenes reveals organ-specific growth and dissemination routes in guinea pigs. Infection & Immunity 80(2): 720-32. [*co-first authors]

Rafelski, SM*, Keller, LC*, Alberts, JB,  Marshall, WF. (2011) Apparent diffusive motion of centrin foci in living cells: implications for diffusion-based motion in centriole duplication. Physical Biology 8(2): 026010. [*co-first authors]

Rafelski, SM*, Alberts, JB*, Odell GM. (2009) An experimental and computational study of the effect of ActA polarity on the speed of Listeria monocytogenes actin-based motility. PLOS Computational Biology 5(7): e1000434. [*co-first authors]

Rafelski, SM and Theriot, JA. (2006) Mechanism of polarization of Listeria monocytogenes surface protein ActA. Molecular Microbiology 59(4):1262–1279.

Rafelski, SM and Theriot, JA. (2005) Bacterial shape and ActA distribution affect initiation of Listeria monocytogenes actin-based motility. Biophysical Journal 89(3):2146-58.

Chytilova E, Macas J, Sliwinska E, Rafelski, SM, Lambert GM, Galbraith DW. (2000). Nuclear dynamics in Arabidopsis thaliana. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 11(8):2733-41.

review articles (click on title for more information)

Jayashankar, V, Rafelski, SM. (2014) Integrating mitochondrial organization and dynamics with cellular architecture. Current Opinions in Cell Biology. 26: 34-40.

Rafelski, SM. (2013) Mitochondrial network morphology: building an integrative, geometrical view. BMC Biology 11: 71.

Rafelski, SM and Marshall, WF. (2008) Building the cell: engineering design principles of cellular architecture. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 9(8): 593-602.

Rafelski, SM and Theriot JA. (2004).  Crawling toward a unified model of cell motility: Spatial and temporal regulation of actin dynamics.  Annual Review of Biochemistry 73:209-239.

Rafelski, SM and Theriot JA. (2002). A hitchhiker's guide to cell biology: exploitation of host-cell functions by intracellular pathogens. Genome Biology 3(3):reports4006.1-4006.2.

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