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 Review Publications and Textbook Chapters 1: C.E. Stebbins and J.E. Galán. (2001). "Structural Mimicry in Bacterial Virulence." Nature, 412, 701-705 [Abstract]  [pdf] 2: C.E. Stebbins and J.E. Galán. (2003). "Priming virulence factors for delivery into the host." Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol, 4, 738-742. [Abstract]  [pdf] 3: M. Lilic and C.E. Stebbins. (2004). "Re-structuring the host cell: up close with Salmonella's molecular machinery." Microbes Infect. 6:1205-11. [Abstract]  [pdf] 4: C.E. Stebbins. (2004). "Structural insights into bacterial modulation of the host cytoskeleton." Curr Opin Struct Biol. 14:731-40. [Abstract]  [pdf] 5: C.E. Stebbins. (2005) "Structural microbiology at the pathogen-host interface." Cell Microbiol. 2005 Sep;7(9):1227-36. [Abstract]  [pdf] 6: C.E. Stebbins. (2005). "Type III Secretion Machinery and Effectors." In Structural Biology of Bacterial Pathogenesis, G. Waksman, M. Caparon, and S. Hultgren, eds. (Washington, ASM Press), 149-177.