Donald L. D. Caspar Professor of Biological Science

Florida State University ▪ 2006
Distinguished Research Professor

Florida State University ▪ 2002
James A. Shannon Director’s Award

NIH ▪ 1994
Established Investigator of the American Heart Association

American Heart Association ▪ 1984

Publications

Refereed Publication:

37. H. P. Erickson, D. W. Taylor, K. A. Taylor & D. Bramhill. Bacterial cell division protein FtsZ assembles into protofilament sheets and minirings; structural homologs of tubulin polymers. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA. 93(1), 519-523 (1996)

38. H. Winkler and K. A. Taylor. Software for 3-D reconstruction from images of oblique sections through 3-D crystals. J. Struct. Biol. 116(1), 241-247 (1996).

39. H. Winkler and K. A. Taylor Three-dimensional distortion correction applied to tomographic reconstructions of sectioned crystals. Ultramicroscopy 63(2), 125-132 (1996)

40. Holger Schmitz, Mary C. Reedy, Michael K. Reedy, Richard T. Tregear, Hanspeter Winkler, Kenneth A. Taylor. Electron tomography of insect flight muscle in rigor and AMPPNP at 23°C. J. Mol. Biol. 264(2), 279-301 (1996)

41. Hanspeter Winkler, Mary C. Reedy, Michael K. Reedy, Richard Tregear and Kenneth A. Taylor. 3-D structure of nucleotide bearing crossbridges in situ: oblique section reconstruction of insect flight muscle in AMPPNP at 23°C. J. Mol. Biol. 264(2), 302-322 (1996)

Publications while at Florida State University

42. H. Schmitz, M. C. Reedy, M. K. Reedy, R. T. Tregear, and K. A. Taylor. Tomographic 3-D Reconstruction of insect flight muscle partially relaxed by AMPPNP and ethylene glycol. J. Cell Biol. 139(3), 695-707 (1997)

43. Kenneth A. Taylor, Jinghua Tang, Yifan Cheng & Hanspeter Winkler. The use of electron tomography for structural analysis of disordered protein arrays. J. Struct. Biol. 120(3), 372-386 (1997)

44. Yifan Cheng & Kenneth A. Taylor. Characterization of the low magnification performance of a Philips CM300-FEG. Ultramicroscopy 74(4), 209-220 (1998).

45. Hanspeter Winkler & Kenneth A. Taylor. Multivariate statistical analysis of three-dimensional cross-bridge motifs in insect flight muscle. Ultramicroscopy 77(3), 141-152 (1999).

46. Kenneth A. Taylor and Dianne W. Taylor. Structural Studies of Cytoskeletal Protein Arrays Formed on Lipid Monolayers. J. Struct. Biol. 128(1), 75-81 (1999)

47. Kenneth A. Taylor, Holger Schmitz, Mary C. Reedy, Yale E. Goldman, Clara Franzini-Armstrong, Hiro Sasaki, Richard T. Tregear, Kate Poole, Carmen Lucaveche, Robert J. Edwards, Li Fan Chen, Hanspeter Winkler, and Michael K. Reedy. Tomographic 3-D reconstruction of quick frozen, Ca²⁺-activated contracting insect flight muscle. Cell 99(4), 421-431 (1999)

48. Thomas Wendt, Dianne Taylor, Kathy Trybus, Terri Messier and Kenneth A. Taylor. Visualization of head-head interactions in the inhibited state of smooth muscle myosin. J. Cell Biol. 147(7), 1385-1390 (1999)

49. Kenneth A. Taylor, Dianne W. Taylor and Fred Schachat. a-Actinin isoforms from cardiac, smooth and skeletal muscle form polar arrays of actin filaments. J. Cell Biol. 149(3), 635-646 (2000).

50. Thomas Wendt, Dianne Taylor, Kathleen M. Trybus, and Kenneth Taylor. 3-D image reconstruction of dephosphorylated smooth muscle heavy meromyosin reveals asymmetry in the interaction between myosin heads and placement of subfragment 2. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 98(8), 4361-4366 (2001)

51. Li Fan Chen, Eric Blanc, Michael S. Chapman and Kenneth A. Taylor. Real space refinement of acto-myosin structures from sectioned muscle. J. Struct. Biol. 133(2), 221-232 (2001)

52. Tang, Jinghua, Taylor, Dianne W. and Taylor, Kenneth A. The 3-D structure of a-actinin obtained by cryoelectron microscopy suggests a model for Ca²⁺ dependent actin binding. J. Mol. Biol. 310(4), 845-858 (2001)

53. Pascual-Montano, A., Taylor, K.A., Winkler, H., Pascual-Marqui, R.D., Carazo, J.M.Quantitative self organizing maps for clustering electron tomograms. J. Struct. Biol. 138(2), 114-122 (2002).

54. Chen, Li Fan, Winkler, Hanspeter, Reedy, Michael K., Reedy, Mary C. & Taylor, Kenneth A. Molecular modeling of averaged rigor crossbridges from tomograms of insect flight muscle. J. Struct. Biol. 138(2), 92-104 (2002).

55. Jun Liu, Thomas Wendt, Dianne W. Taylor & Kenneth A. Taylor. Refined model of the 10S conformation of smooth muscle myosin by cryoEM 3-D image reconstruction. J. Mol. Biol. 329(5), 963-972 (2003)

56. Hanspeter Winkler and Kenneth A. Taylor. Focus gradient correction applied to tilt series image data used in electron tomography. J. Struct. Biol. 143(1), 24-32 (2003).

57. Ping Zhu, Elena Chertova, Julian Bess, Jr., Jeffrey D. Lifson, Larry O. Arthur, Jun Liu, Kenneth A. Taylor, and Kenneth H. Roux. Electron tomography analysis of envelope glycoprotein trimers on HIV and simian immunodeficiency virus virions. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 100(26), 15812-15817 (2003)

58. Jun Liu, Dianne W. Taylor and Kenneth A. Taylor. A 3-D reconstruction of smooth muscle a-actinin by cryoEM reveals two different conformations at the actin binding region. J. Mol. Biol. 338(1), 115-125 (2004).

59. Richard Tregear, Kenneth A. Taylor, Hanspeter Winkler, Mary Reedy, Yale Goldman, Clara Franzini-Armstrong, Hiro Sasaki, Carmen Lucaveche and Michael Reedy. Number and orientation of crossbridges in target zones of active insect flight muscle. Biophys. J. 86, 3009-3019 (2004).

60. Jun Liu, Mary C. Reedy, Yale E. Goldman, Clara Franzini-Armstrong, Hiroyuki Sasaki, Richard T. Tregear, Carmen Lucaveche, Hanspeter Winkler, Bruce A. J. Baumann, John M. Squire, Thomas C. Irving, Michael K. Reedy, and Kenneth A. Taylor. Electron tomography of fast frozen, stretched rigor fibers reveals elastic distortions in the myosin crossbridges. J. Struct. Biol. 147(3), 268–282 (2004).

61. Florence Tama, Michael Feig, Jun Liu, Charles L. Brooks IIIand Kenneth A. Taylor. The requirement for mechanical coupling between head and S2 domains in smooth muscle myosin ATPase regulation and its implications for dimeric motor function. J. Mol. Biol. 345(4), 837-854 (2005)

62. Deborah F. Kelly and Kenneth A. Taylor. Identification of the b1-integrin binding site on a-actinin by cryo-electron microscopy. J. Struct. Biol. 149(3), 290-302 (2005).

63. Hanspeter Winkler and Kenneth A. Taylor. Accurate marker-free alignment with simultaneous geometry determination and reconstruction of tilt series in electron tomography. Ultramicroscopy, 106(6), 240-254 (2006).

Received an award for the most cited article 2006-2010 in Ultramicroscopy

64. Deborah F. Kelly, Dianne W. Taylor, Constantina Bakolitsa, Andrey A. Bobkov, Laurie Bankston, Robert C. Liddington and Kenneth A Taylor. Structure of the a-actinin-vinculin head domain complex determined by cryo-electron microscopy J. Mol. Biol., 357(2), 562-573 (2006).

65. Ping Zhu, Jun Liu, Julian Bess Jr., Elena Chertova, Jeffrey D. Lifson, Henry Grisé, Gilad Ofek, Kenneth A. Taylor, and Kenneth H. Roux. Distribution and three-dimensional structure of AIDS virus envelope spikes. Nature 441, 847-852 (2006)

66. Jun Liu, Dianne W. Taylor, Elena Krementsova, Kathy Trybus & Kenneth A. Taylor. 3-D structure of the myosin V inhibited state by cryoelectron tomography. Nature 442, 208-211 (2006).

67. Jun Liu, Shenping Wu, Mary C. Reedy, Hanspeter Winkler, Carmen Lucaveche, Yifan Cheng, Michael K. Reedy, and Kenneth A. Taylor. Electron tomography of swollen rigor fibers of insect flight muscle reveals a short and variably angled S2 domain. J. Mol. Biol. 362(4), 844-860 (2006)

68. Cheri M. Hampton, Dianne W. Taylor and Kenneth A. Taylor. Novel structures for a-actinin: F-actin interactions and their implications for actin-membrane attachment and tension sensing in the cytoskeleton. J. Mol. Biol. 368(1), 92-104 (2007). PMCID: PMC1919418.

69. Dianne W. Taylor, Deborah F. Kelly, Anchi Cheng, and Kenneth A Taylor. On the freezing of lipid monolayer specimens for cryoelectron microscopy. J. Struct. Biol. 160, 305-312 (2007). PMCID: PMC2268103.

70. Wei Dai, Qingmei Jia, Eric Bortz, Sanket Shah, Jun Liu, Ivo Atanasov, Kenneth A. Taylor, Ren Sun & Z. Hong Zhou. Unique structures in a tumor herpesvirus revealed by cryo-electron tomography and microscopy. J. Struct. Biol. 161, 428-438 (2008). PMCID: PMC2714863.

71. Feng Ye, Jun Liu, Hanspeter Winkler and Kenneth A. Taylor. Integrin aIIbβ3 in a membrane environment remains the same height after Mn²⁺ activation when observed by cryo-electron tomography J. Mol. Biol. 378(5), 976-986 (2008).

PMCID: PMC2614134.

72. Kenneth A. Taylor and Robert M. Glaeser.Retrospective on the early development of cryoelectron microscopy of macromolecules and a prospective on opportunities for the future. J. Struct. Biol. 163(3), 214–223 (2008) doi:10.1016/j.jsb.2008.06.004

73. Ping Zhu, Hanspeter Winkler, Kenneth A. Taylor, and Kenneth H. Roux.Cryoelectron tomography of HIV-1 envelope spikes: further evidence for tripod-like legs. PLoS Pathogens, 4(11): e1000203. doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1000203 (2008). PMCID: PMC2805068.

74. Cheri M. Hampton, Jun Liu, Dianne W. Taylor, David J. DeRosier and Kenneth A. Taylor. The 3D structure of villin as a unique F-actin cross-linker. Structure, 16(12), 1882-1891 (2008).

PMCID: PMC2782859.

75. Hanspeter Winkler, Ping Zhu, Jun Liu, Feng Ye, Kenneth H. Roux, and Kenneth A. Taylor. Tomographic subvolume alignment and subvolume classification applied to myosinV and SIV envelope spikes. J. Struct. Biol. 165(2), 64-77 (2009)

PMCID: PMC2656979.

76. Jason O’Donnel, Kenneth A. Taylor & Michael S. Chapman. Adeno-Associated Virus-2 and its primary cellular receptor – cryo-EM structure of a heparin complex. Virology 385, 434–443 (2009). PMCID: PMC2684845.

77. Shenping Wu, Jun Liu, Mary C. Reedy, Hanspeter Winkler, Michael K. Reedy & Kenneth A. Taylor. Methods for identifying and averaging variable molecular conformations in tomograms of actively contracting insect flight muscle. J. Struct. Biol. 168, 485-502 (2009). PMCID: PMC2805068.

78. Feng Ye, Guiqing Hu, Dianne Taylor, Boris Ratnikov, Mark A. McLean, Stephen G. Sligar, Kenneth A. Taylor, and Mark H. Ginsberg. Recreation of the terminal events in physiological integrin activation. J. Cell Biol. 188(1), 157-173 (2010). PMCID: PMC2812850.

79. Shenping Wu, Jun Liu, Mary C. Reedy, Richard T. Tregear, Hanspeter Winkler, Clara Franzini-Armstrong, Hiroyuki Sasaki, Carmen Lucaveche, Yale E. Goldman, Michael K. Reedy, and Kenneth A. Taylor. Electron tomography of cryofixed, isometrically contracting insect flight muscle reveals novel actin-myosin interactions. PLoS ONE 5(9), e12643 (2010). PMCID: PMC2936580

80. Guiqing Hu, Jun Liu, Kenneth A Taylor, and Kenneth H. Roux. Structural Comparison of HIV-1 Envelope Spikes with and without the V1/V2 loop J. Virology, 85(6), 2741–2750 (2011).

81. Agnieszka Collins, Anthony Warrington, Kenneth A. Taylor and Tatyana Svitkina. Structural organization of the actin cytoskeleton at the sites of clathrin-mediated endocytosis. Current Biology, 21(14), 1167-1175 (2011).

82. Pradeep Luther, Hanspeter Winkler, Kenneth Taylor, Maria-Elena Zoghbi, Roger Craig, Raul Padron, John Squire and Jun Liu. Direct visualisation of the binding of myosin binding protein C to actin filaments in intact muscle (PNAS, in press)

Nonrefereed Publications:

8. K. H. Roux, K. A. Taylor and P. Zhu. Cryoelectron tomography shows 3D structure of surface spikes: Structure of AIDS virus surface revealed. BIOforum Europe. 07-08, 32-33 (2006).

9. Kenneth A. Taylor. Regulation and recycling of myosin V. Curr. Opin. Cell Biol. 19(1), 67-74 (2007) http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ceb.2006.12.014

10. Kenneth H. Roux & Kenneth A. Taylor. HIV envelope structure and organization. Curr. Opin. Struct. Biol. 17, 244-252 (2007) doi:10.1016/j.sbi.2007.03.008

11. Hanspeter Winkler, Jun Liu, Kenneth A. Taylor, Ping Zhu, Kenneth H. Roux. Electron tomography of macromolecular assemblies. In: Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, pg 240-243 (2007) doi:10.1109/ISBI.2007.356833

12. Mary Catherine Reedy – Obituary. Kenneth A. Taylor. J. Muscle Res. Cell Motil. 29(2), 69-72 (2008)

Chapters in books:

24. K. A. Taylor, J. Liu & H. Winkler. Localization and classification of repetitive structures in electron tomograms of paracrystalline assemblies. In: Electron Tomography: Methods for Three-dimensional Visualization of Structures in the Cell, 2^nd edition, Joachim Frank, Ed. Springer-Verlag. pp 417-439 (2006).

25. K. A. Taylor, S. Wu, M. C. Reedy & M. K. Reedy. Imaging actomyosin in situ. In: Methods in Cell Biology: Cellular Electron Microscopy. J. Richard McIntosh, Editor. Academic Press, San Diego, CA. pp321-368 (2007).

26. H. Winkler, S. Wu and K. A. Taylor. Electron Tomography of Paracrystalline 2-D Arrays. In: Methods in Molecular Biology, Y. Cheng and I. Schmidt-Krey, Editors. Academic Press, San Diego, CA. (accepted, 2010)

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Memberships

American Society of Cell Biology, Member; 1982 - 2012

Microscopy Society of America, Member; 1982 - 2012

Biophysical Society, Member; 1982 - 2012

Peer Review Positions

Editorial Board, Journal of Structural Biology; 1990 - 2011

Peer Review Study Sections, National Institutes of Health; 1983 - 2011

Professional Presentations

Crossbridge structures from 3-dimensional reconstructions of insect flight muscle and decorated actin; Departmental Seminar; Univ. of Miami, Dept. of Pharmacology; 1985

Molecular Tomography - visualizing active molecular motors in situ using electron microscope tomography; Departmental Seminar; Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan; 2011

Molecular Tomography - visualizing active molecular motors in situ using electron microscope tomography; Departmental Seminar; Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore; 2011

Visualizing active contraction in insect flight muscle using electron tomography: novel thin filament attachments revealing the myosin power stroke and a mechanisms for stretch activation; Departmental Seminar; Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Leeds, United Kingdom; 2011

Visualizing active contraction in insect flight muscle using electron tomography: novel thin filament attachments revealing the myosin power stroke and a mechanisms for stretch activation; Departmental Seminar; MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK; 2011

Structure of the calcium ATPase crystals in SR; Invited Conference Lecture; Gordon Research Conference - Muscle, Excitation Contraction Coupling; 1983

Crossbridge structures as determined from 3D reconstructions of insect flight muscle and of decorated actin; Invited Conference Lecture; Gordon Research Conference - Muscle, Contractile Proteins; 1984

Reconstructions of muscle filaments from thin sections; Invited Conference Lecture; Gordon Research Conference - 3D EM of Macromolecules; 1985

Three dimensional structure of Ca2+-ATPase determined by electron microscopy; Invited Conference Lecture; 10th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Heart Research; 1988

The structure and interactions of Ca2+-ATPase; Invited Conference Lecture; Gordon Research Conference - Muscle, Excitation Contraction Coupling; 1993

Structure of ?-actinin determined from 2-D crystals formed on lipid monolayers; Invited Conference Lecture; Gordon Research Conference - 3D EM of Macromolecules; 1993

Structure of ?-actinin by electron microscopy of 2-D crystals formed on lipid monolayers; Invited Conference Lecture; 1994 Molecular Mechanism of Muscle Contraction. Christ’s College, Cambridge, UK; 1994

The use of electron tomography for structural analysis of disordered protein arrays; Invited Conference Lecture; EMBO Electron Tomography Workshop; 1997

Extracting single particle information from tomograms; Invited Conference Lecture; Gordon Research Conference - 3D EM of Macromolecules; 1997

3-D electron microscopy of cytoskeletal proteins & contracting muscle; Invited Conference Lecture; Beijing Conference & Exhibition on Instrumental Analysis; 1997

Structure of Insect Flight Muscle; Departmental Seminar; East Carolina University, Dept. of Biochemistry; 1988

3-D Structure of alpha-actinin; Departmental Seminar; Univ. of Virginia, Dept. of Biology; 1989

Structure of Muscle and Muscle Proteins by 3-D Electron Microscopy; Departmental Seminar; Florida State University, Structural Biology Program; 1991

Myosin crossbridge and ?-actinin structure in muscle determined by 3-D electron microscopy; Departmental Seminar; North Carolina State University, Dept. of Microbiology; 1993

Structure of ?-actinin by electron microscopy of 2-D crystals formed on lipid monolayers; Program Seminar; University of North Carolina, Triangle Motility Club; 1993

Myosin crossbridge and ?-actinin structure in muscle determined by 3-D electron microscopy; Departmental Seminar; Univ. Missouri-Kansas City, Dept. of Biochemistry; 1993

Myosin crossbridge and ?-actinin structure in muscle determined by 3-D electron microscopy; Departmental Seminar; Florida State University, Structural Biology Program; 1993

3-D electron microscopy of muscle crossbridges and muscle proteins; Departmental Seminar; La Jolla Cancer Research Foundation (now the Burnham Institute); 1994

3-D Electron microscopy of muscle & muscle proteins: current status and future prospects; Departmental Seminar; Florida State University, Structural Biology Program; 1995

3-D electron microscopy of muscle: correlation of crossbridge structure with mechanical state; Departmental Seminar; University of Mississippi Medical Center, Dept. of Biochemistry; 1996

Electron tomography of muscle: the varied structure of myosin crossbridges with bound nucleotide in situ; Departmental Seminar; Biozentrum der Universität Basel, Switzerland; 1997

Electron tomography of muscle: the varied structure of myosin crossbridges with bound nucleotide in situ; Departmental Seminar; Institute of Physics, Beijing University, Peoples Republic of China; 1997

Electron tomography of muscle: the varied structure of myosin crossbridges with bound nucleotide in situ; Departmental Seminar; EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany; 1997

Structure of myosin crossbridges in diverse functional states of insect flight muscle; Departmental Seminar; NIAMSD, NIH, Bethesda, MD; 1998

3-D structure of active crossbridges in insect flight muscle frozen in time during isometric contraction; Departmental Seminar; University of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Physiology; 1999

Cross-bridges in contracting indirect flight muscles fast frozen during isometric contraction.; Departmental Seminar; University of Vermont, Dept. of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics; 1999

3-D structure of active crossbridges in insect flight muscle frozen in time during isometric contraction; Departmental Seminar; University of Texas Southwest Medical Center, Department of Pathology; 1999

3-D structure of active crossbridges in insect flight muscle frozen in time during isometric contraction; Departmental Seminar; Boston Biomedical Research Institute; 2000

3-D Electron Microscopy – A bridge between light microscopy and X-ray crystallography; Departmental Seminar; Florida State University, Dept. of Chemical Engineering; 2000

Structural insights in contracting muscle.; Departmental Seminar; University of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Physiology.; 2000

Hybrid crystallography--building models of macromolecular assemblies by combining 3-D electron microscopy with X-ray crystallography; Departmental Seminar; Florida State University, Dept. of Biological Science; 2000

How bugs fly and smooth muscles relax. Electron cryomicroscopy reveals novel conformations of myosin in activated and relaxed muscle; Departmental Seminar; Burnham Institute, La Jolla, CA; 2001

The structure of ?-actinin: a molecule with a complex structure and a complex function; Departmental Seminar; Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Oregon State University.; 2002

How bugs fly. Time resolved 3-D electron microscopy reveals novel conformations of myosin in actively contracting muscle.; Departmental Seminar; Department of Biology, San Diego State University; 2002

Motoring Along with Myosin; Departmental Seminar; Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, La Jolla, CA; 2003

The structural basis of myosin ATPase regulation in smooth muscle; Departmental Seminar; San Diego Actin Club; 2003

The Mechanism of ATPase Inhibition in Smooth Muscle Myosin; Departmental Seminar; AMI Forum, Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla,, CA; 2003

A walk on the theoretical side: Building a model for the active to inactive transition in smooth muscle myosin; Departmental Seminar; Florida State University, Dept. of Biological Science; 2003

A walk on the theoretical side: Building a model for the active to inactive transition in smooth muscle myosin; Departmental Seminar; University of Vermont College of Medicine, Dept. of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics; 2003

Lipid monolayers: a powerful method for 2-D crystallization and assembly of proteins and their complexes for cryoelectron microscopy; Departmental Seminar; University of Central Florida, Department of Physics; 2004

A walk on the theoretical side: Building a model for the active to inactive transition in smooth muscle myosin; Departmental Seminar; National Institute of Arthritis, Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, NIH, Bethesda, MD; 2004

The structure of inhibited states of myosin determined using cryoEM and molecular modeling.; Departmental Seminar; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Program in Molecular and Cellular Biophysics; 2005

Single particle 3-D imaging with 3-D single particle images from tomograms; Workshop on single particle imaging; University of Vermont College of Medicine; 2005

Common themes in the problem of turning myosin motors off; Departmental Seminar; New York University Medical School, Skirball Institute; 2006

Common themes in the problem of turning myosin motors off; Departmental Seminar; Wadsworth Center for Labs and Research, Albany, NY; 2006

Common themes in the problem of turning myosin motors off; Departmental Seminar; Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Dept. of Physiology & Biophysics; 2006

Electron tomography a powerful new tool to directly visualize molecular structures and their dynamics; Departmental Seminar; Florida State University, Dept. of Biological Science; 2007

Molecular Tomography - Extracting Molecular Structure & Conformation from Electron Tomograms; Departmental Seminar; University of Texas Health Science Center, Dept. of Pathology; 2009

Freeze frames of active muscle contraction reveal unique actin-myosin structures; Departmental Seminar; University of Vermont College of Medicine, Dept. of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics; 2009

Molecular electron tomography - extracting molecular conformations from complex structures visualized in situ; Departmental Seminar; University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; 2010

Structural studies of paracrystalline arrays of muscle proteins; Invited Conference Lecture; Symposium on “Electron crystallography of Biological Macromolecules”, Lake Tahoe, CA; 1998

Structural studies of paracrystalline arrays of muscle proteins; Invited Conference Lecture; International Institute of Advanced Research Symposium 98, Seika, Kyoto, Japan; 1998

Insights into the mechanism of muscle contraction obtained using electron tomography; Invited Conference Lecture; Gordon Research Conference - 3D EM of Macromolecules; 2001

3-D crossbridge motifs from insect flight muscle in defined static states as well as active contraction; Invited Conference Lecture; 5th International Muscle Energetics Conference; 2001

The application of lipid monolayers for the study of the cytoskeleton; Invited Conference Lecture; 15th International Congress on Electron Microscopy. Durban, South Africa; 2002

Molecular Tomography; Extracting Macromolecular Structures from Electron Tomograms; Invited Conference Lecture; Annual Meeting of the Microscopical Society of Canada, Montreal, Canada; 2008

Structural Studies of Integrin Activation in a Membrane Environment; Invited Conference Lecture; Frontiers in Cell Migration, NIH, Bethesda, MD; 2008

Molecular Tomography - extracting molecular conformations from electron tomograms; Invited Conference Lecture; Third K. H. Kuo Summer School of Electron Microscopy and Crystallography; 2010

Adventures in molecular tomography – extracting molecular conformations from hyper-heterogeneous specimens; Invited Conference Lecture; 6th International Congress on Electron Tomography, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany; 2011

The structure of the acto-S1 complex and its relationship to energy transduction; Invited Conference Lecture; American Society of Biological Chemists annual meeting.; 1982

Three-dimensional structure of insect flight muscle from tilted thin sections; Invited Conference Lecture; Biophysical Discussions meeting of the Biophysical Society; 1985

Image analysis of the Ca2+-ATPase from sarcoplasmic reticulum; Invited Conference Lecture; New York Academy of Sciences Conference on Recent Advances in Electron and Light Imaging in Biology and Medicine; 1986

Three-dimensional reconstructions from single oblique sections of rigor insect flight muscle; Invited Conference Lecture; Electron Microscopy of America annual meeting; 1986

Oblique section reconstruction from thin sectioned biological specimens; Invited Conference Lecture; Microscopy Society of America annual meeting; 1993

Oblique section reconstruction from thin sectioned biological specimens; Invited Conference Lecture; Microscopy Society of America annual meeting; 1995

3-D electron microscopy of muscle and muscle proteins; Invited Conference Lecture; American Society of Cell Biologist annual meeting; 1995

Tomography of paracrystalline specimens; Invited Conference Lecture; Microscopy Society of America annual meeting; 1996

Electron tomography of insect flight muscle in isometric contraction and rigor states; Invited Conference Lecture; Microscopy Society of America annual Meeting in Long Beach, CA; 2001

Classification and molecular modeling of crossbridge conformations from tomograms of insect flight muscle; Invited Conference Lecture; Microscopy Society of America annual meeting; 2003

Classification of variable 3-D structure motifs in tomograms of insect flight muscle; Invited Workshop Talk; American Society for Cell Biology annual meeting; 2005

Molecular Tomography; Extracting Molecular Structures from Electron Tomograms; Invited Workshop Talk; National Resource for Automated Molecular Microscopy, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA; 2007

-D imaging of actin-based motors using electron tomography; Invited Workshop Talk; American Society for Cell Biology, annual meeting; 2005

The ups and downs of smooth muscle myosin regulation; Invited Conference Lecture; Biophysical Society annual meeting; 2009

Molecular Tomography - Extracting Molecular Structure & Conformation from Electron Tomogram; Invited Conference Lecture; UCLA California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) Advanced Electron Microscopy in Nanomedicine Symposium; 2009

Evaluating the results of correspondence analysis and real space refinement applied to electron tomograms of insect flight muscle; Invited Conference Lecture; Tomography Colloquium at Royal Netherlands Academy of Science, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; 2001