Staff at EMBL

Dr. Marko Kaksonen

Group Leader
Kaksonen Group Joint appointment: Structural and Computational Biology Unit

EMBL Heidelberg, Meyerhofstraße 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany

Biography

PhD 2002, University of Helsinki, Finland.
Postdoctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley, USA.
Group leader at EMBL since 2006.

Publications

Molecular basis for coupling the plasma membrane to the actin cytoskeleton during clathrin-mediated endocytosis. Skruzny, M., Brach, T., Ciuffa, R., Rybina, S., Wachsmuth, M. & Kaksonen, M. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012 Sep 18;109(38):E2533-42. Epub 2012 Aug 27. PubMed

Plasma Membrane Reshaping during Endocytosis Is Revealed by Time-Resolved Electron Tomography. Kukulski, W., Schorb, M., Kaksonen, M. & Briggs, J.A. Cell. 2012 Aug 3;150(3):508-20. PubMed

Precise, correlated fluorescence microscopy and electron tomography of lowicryl sections using fluorescent fiducial markers. Kukulski, W., Schorb, M., Welsch, S., Picco, A., Kaksonen, M. & Briggs, J.A. Methods Cell Biol. 2012;111:235-57. PubMed

Reassessment of the role of plasma membrane domains in the regulation of vesicular traffic in yeast. Brach, T., Specht, T. & Kaksonen, M. J Cell Sci. 2011 Feb 1;124(Pt 3):328-37. Epub 2011 Jan 11. PubMed

Correlated fluorescence and 3D electron microscopy with high sensitivity and spatial precision. Kukulski, W., Schorb, M., Welsch, S., Picco, A., Kaksonen, M. & Briggs, J.A. J Cell Biol. 2011 Jan 10;192(1):111-9. doi: 10.1083/jcb.201009037. Epub 2011 Jan3. PubMed

A systematic screen for protein-lipid interactions in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Gallego, O., Betts, M.J., Gvozdenovic-Jeremic, J., Maeda, K., Matetzki, C., Aguilar-Gurrieri, C., Beltran-Alvarez, P., Bonn, S., Fernandez-Tornero, C., Jensen, L.J., Kuhn, M., Trott, J., Rybin, V., Muller, C.W., Bork, P., Kaksonen, M., Russell, R.B. & Gavin, A.C. Mol Syst Biol. 2010 Nov 30;6:430. doi: 10.1038/msb.2010.87. PubMed

Taking apart the endocytic machinery. Kaksonen, M. J Cell Biol. 2008 Mar 24;180(6):1059-60. PubMed

Endocytic vesicle scission by lipid phase boundary forces. Liu, J., Kaksonen, M., Drubin, D.G. & Oster, G. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 Jul 5;103(27):10277-82. Epub 2006 Jun 26. PubMed

Harnessing actin dynamics for clathrin-mediated endocytosis. Kaksonen, M., Toret, C.P. & Drubin, D.G. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol. 2006 Jun;7(6):404-14. PubMed

A modular design for the clathrin- and actin-mediated endocytosis machinery. Kaksonen, M., Toret, C.P. & Drubin, D.G. Cell. 2005 Oct 21;123(2):305-20. PubMed

A pathway for association of receptors, adaptors, and actin during endocytic internalization. Kaksonen, M., Sun, Y. & Drubin, D.G. Cell. 2003 Nov 14;115(4):475-87. PubMed