Steven D. Cappell
Investigator
Laboratory of Cancer Biology and Genetics, CCR
National Cancer Institute
United States of America
Biography
Dr. Cappell received his B.S. in marine science and Bbiology from the University of Miami, FL. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he studied G protein signaling in yeast in the lab of Dr. Henrik Dohlman. He completed his postdoctoral training as a Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation Fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Tobias Meyer at Stanford University. His postdoctoral research focused on understanding how cells make the decision to divide.
Research Interest
1) Signal transduction 2) Systems biology 3) Cell cycle 4) Single-cell analysis 5) Fluorescent biosensors 6) Ubiquitin ligases 7) Regulatory circuits generating irreversibility in the G1/S transition in normal cells 8) Regulation of the E3 ubiquitin ligase.
