Julie Theriot
Julie A. Theriot (born 1967) is a cell biologist, who
studies the molecular mechanics and dynamics of cell Julie Theriot
movement and organization. Her work spans many Born 1967
fields from microbiology to biophysics, and lab studies Nationality American
eukaryotic cell motility as well as the hijacking of the Alma mater Massachusetts Institute of
cytoskeleton by intracellular parasites like listeria.[1] Technology, University of
She has also published work that describes the California, San Francisco
mechanisms of Galvanotaxis in vertebrate cells. She is
Awards MacArthur Fellows Program
a professor at the University of Washington,
Department of Biology, a continuing Howard Hughes Scientific career
Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator, and Chief Fields Biomechanics, Cell Biology
[2]
Scientist at the Allen Institute for Cell Science. She Institutions University of Washington, Allen
was previously a professor at the Stanford University Institute for Cell Science
School of Medicine,[3] and before that, she was a
Predoctoral Fellow and Investigator at HHMI.[4] She was also a fellow at the Whitehead Institute for
Biomedical Research.[5]
She graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a B.S. in Biology and Physics in
1988, and from the University of California, San Francisco, with a Ph.D. in Cell Biology in 1993. Her
work has investigated bacterial infections, such as Shigella, and Listeria.[6]
Awards
2004 MacArthur Fellows Program
2019 Keith R. Porter Lecture[7]
2021 Member of the U. S. National Academy of Sciences.[8]
Works
"Mechanism for cell shapeliness decoded from fish scales", Nature 453, xi (22 May 2008)[9]
Physical biology of the cell, Authors Rob Phillips, Janè Kondev, Julie Theriot, Garland
Science, 2008, ISBN 978-0-8153-4163-5
"Bacterial Manipulation of the Host Cell Cytoskeleton" (https://books.google.com/books?id=k
Jawacbld1sC&dq=Julie+Theriot&pg=PA275), Cellular microbiology, Editor Pascale Cossart,
ASM Press, 2005, ISBN 978-1-55581-302-4
"Movement of Bacterial Pathogens Driven by Actin Polymerization" (https://books.google.co
m/books?id=20Kvvq124MwC&dq=Julie+Theriot&pg=PA157), Motion analysis of living cells,
Editors David R. Soll, Deborah Wessels, Wiley-IEEE, 1998, ISBN 978-0-471-15915-5
References
1. web|url=https://www.biology.washington.edu/people/profile/julie-theriot%7Ctitle=Julie Theriot
University of Washington
2. "Julie Theriot - Allen Institute" (https://alleninstitute.org/person/julie-theriot/).
3. "Julie Theriot - Stanford Medicine Profiles" (http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Julie_Theriot/).
med.stanford.edu.
4. "Julie A. Theriot, PhD - HHMI.org" (http://www.hhmi.org/news/theriot_bio.html). hhmi.org.
5. Beyond the glass ceiling: forty women whose ideas shape the modern world (https://books.g
oogle.com/books?id=meDtAAAAMAAJ&q=Julie+Theriot), Editors Sian Griffiths, Helena
Kennedy, Manchester University Press, 1996, ISBN 978-0-7190-4773-2
6. "Theriot wins MacArthur Fellowship to pursue her passion for biology" (http://news.stanford.
edu/news/2004/september29/theriotmac-929.html), Stanford Report, September 29, 2004,
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7. "Keith R. Porter Lecture" (https://www.ascb.org/award/keith-r-porter-lecture/). American
Society for Cell Biology. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
8. "News from the National Academy of Sciences" (http://www.nasonline.org/news-and-multim
edia/news/2021-nas-election.html). April 26, 2021. Retrieved July 6, 2021. "Newly elected
members and their affiliations at the time of election are: … Theriot, Julie A.; investigator,
Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Chief Scientific Advisor, Allen Institute for Cell Science;
and professor, department of biology, University of Washington, Seattle", entry in member
directory:"Member Directory" (http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/members/300446
7.html). National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved July 6, 2021.
9. "Making the paper: Julie Theriot" (https://doi.org/10.1038%2F7194xia). Nature. 453 (7194):
xi. 21 May 2008. doi:10.1038/7194xia (https://doi.org/10.1038%2F7194xia).
S2CID 37051224 (https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:37051224).
External links
Media related to Julie Theriot at Wikimedia Commons
"The World Within Us: Microbes That Help and Harm (October 27, 2009 lecture by Julie
Theriot)" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dedlL8l0YIM). YouTube. Stanford. February
18, 2010.
"Actin polymerization - Julie Theriot (Stanford)" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UApgQ
2zulU). YouTube. iBiology Techniques. November 1, 2013.
"Exploring Frontiers: Predicting Biology | Julie Theriot" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I
zB6LHNg8KY). YouTube. Allen Institute. July 31, 2019.
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