University of Virginia Health System

Telephone: 434.982.0074 (office)/ 0083 (lab)
Fax: 434.924.1236
E-mail: imacara@virginia.edu

Lab Location:
                Room 7191
                Hospital West, HSC                                                University of Virginia School of Medicine                           Charlottesville VA 22908-0577

Research Interests: Cell polarization in epithelia and neurons; epithelial morphogenesis and breast cancer; RNA localization; dendritic spine morphogenesis in hippocampal neurons; the RAN GTPase and nuclear transport; N-terminal methylation of proteins.

Personnel: There are openings for postdocs and graduate students with interests in neurobiology (dendritic spine morphogenesis), epithelial cell polarity, mouse models of mammary morphogenesis and cancer, and high-throughput siRNA screens.