Lukas C. Kapitein
Cell Biology, Faculty of Science
Utrecht University
Netherlands
Biography
Lukas Kapitein studied Physics and Astronomy at the VU University in Amsterdam, where he also received his PhD in Biophysics in 2007. His postdoctoral training in Neurobiology was at the Erasmus Medical Center, funded by an NWO Vernieuwingsimpuls ALW-VENI grant and an Erasmus MC Fellowship. As of 2011, he works as an Assistant Professor at Utrecht University. In 2013, he received an ERC Starting Grant from the European Research Council and a VIDI fellowship from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research.
Research Interest
cell biology
Publications
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Liu Q, Liu F, Yu KL, Tas R, Grigoriev I, Remmelzwaal S, Serra-Marques A, Kapitein LC, Heck AJ, and Akhmanova A. MICAL3 Flavoprotein Monooxygenase Forms a Complex with Centralspindlin and Regulates Cytokinesis. J Biol Chem, 2016. 291(39): 20617-29.
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Noordstra I, Liu Q, Nijenhuis W, Hua S, Jiang K, Baars M, Remmelzwaal S, Martin M, Kapitein LC, and Akhmanova A. Control of apico-basal epithelial polarity by the microtubule minus-end-binding protein CAMSAP3 and spectraplakin ACF7. J Cell Sci, 2016. 129(22): 4278-4288.
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Kaplan M, Narasimhan S, de Heus C, Mance D, van Doorn S, Houben K, Popov-Celeketic D, Damman R, Katrukha EA, Jain P, Geerts WJ, Heck AJ, Folkers GE, Kapitein LC, Lemeer S, van Bergen En Henegouwen PM, and Baldus M. EGFR Dynamics Change during Activation in Native Membranes as Revealed by NMR. Cell, 2016. 167(5): 1241-1251 e11.
