Zemer Gitai
Professor
Molecular Biology
Princeton University
United States of America
Biography
Zemer Gitai is an Associate Professor of Molecular Biology at Princeton University. He graduated with a bachelor's degree from MIT in 1996. After completing his graduate studies at UCSF in 2002, Dr. Gitai became a postdoc in the lab of Dr. Lucy Shapiro at Stanford University where he pioneered the study of the MreB actin-like cytoskeleton in Caulobacter crescentus. Dr. Gitai joined the faculty of Princeton University as an Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology in 2005. He was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2012. He is currently the Director of Graduate Studies for the Department of Molecular Biology
Research Interest
Microbiology and Virology
Publications
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Habrian C, Chandrasekhara A, Shahrvini B, Hua B, Lee J, Jesinghaus R, et al., 2106, Inhibition of Escherichia coli CTP Synthetase by NADH and Other Nicotinamides and Their Mutual Interactions with CTP and GTP, J.Biochemistry, 55, 5554-5565
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Bartlett TM, Bratton BP, Duvshani A, Miguel A, Sheng Y, Martin NR, et al., 2107, A Periplasmic Polymer Curves Vibrio cholerae and Promotes Pathogenesis, J.Cell., 2017, 168, 172-185
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Lynch EM, Hicks DR, Shepherd M, Endrizzi JA, Maker A, Hansen JM, et al., 2107, Human CTP synthase filament structure reveals the active enzyme conformation, J.Nat Struct Mol Biol., 24, 507-514
