HOME   RESEARCH   PEOPLE   PUBLICATIONS CRYSTAL GALLERY  CONTACT  Using x-ray vision, he keeps his eye on the bacteria "Dr. C. Erec Stebbins, head of Rockefeller University's Laboratory of Structural Microbiology, spends much of his time using a nearly 100-year-old investigative tool..." -The New York Times Threading a narrow needle "A high-resolution crystal structure obtained by Jorge E. Galán, a microbiologist at Yale..." -Chemical & Engineering News Rockefeller researchers solve structure for deadly bacterial toxin "Researchers at Rockefeller University, New York, have determined the structure of a potent DNA-damaging protein..." -Drug Discovery & Development A salmonella invasion protein that acts as a "molecular staple" "Salmonella invasion protein A (SipA) is an important virulence factor injected into host cells, where it modulates the cytoskeleton by polym-erizing actin..." -Science Postdoctoral Publications 1: C.E. Stebbins and J.E. Galán. (2000). "Modulation of Host Signaling by a Bacterial Mimic: Structure of the Salmonella Effector SptP Bound to Rac1." Mol. Cell, 6, 1449-1460. [Abstract]  [pdf] 2: C.E. Stebbins and J.E. Galán. (2001). "Maintenance of an unfolded polypeptide by a cognate chaperone in bacterial type III secretion" Nature, 414, 77-81. [Abstract]  [pdf]