Jorge Torres
Assistant Professor
Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of California los Angeles
United States of America
Biography
Dr. Torres received his B.S. in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1998, where he conducted research under the mentorship of Dr. Eduardo Orias. He obtained his Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from Princeton University in 2004 under the direction of Dr. Virginia A. Zakian. He conducted his postdoctoral work in the laboratory of Dr. Peter K. Jackson at the Stanford University School of Medicine and Genentech Inc. until 2009 when he joined the faculty in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UCLA.
Research Interest
Molecular Biology
Publications
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Ban Kenneth H, Torres Jorge Z, Miller Julie J, Mikhailov Alexei, Nachury Maxence V, Tung Jeffrey J, Rieder Conly L, Jackson Peter K The END network couples spindle pole assembly to inhibition of the anaphase-promoting complex/cyclosome in early mitosis Developmental cell, 2007; 13(1): 29-42.
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Torres Jorge Z, Miller Julie J, Jackson Peter K High-throughput generation of tagged stable cell lines for proteomic analysis Proteomics, 2009; 9(10): 2888-91.
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Torres Jorge Z, Ban Kenneth H, Jackson Peter K A specific form of phospho protein phosphatase 2 regulates anaphase-promoting complex/cyclosome association with spindle poles Molecular biology of the cell, 2010; 21(6): 897-904.
