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William M Saxton
  • Title
    • Professor
  • Division Physical & Biological Sciences Division
  • Department
    • Molecular, Cell, & Developmental Biology Department
  • Affiliations Kresge College
  • Phone
    831-459-4914
  • Email
  • Website
  • Office Location
    • Sinsheimer Laboratories, 324
  • Office Hours Arranged
  • Mail Stop MCD Biology
  • Faculty Areas of Expertise Biology; Cell Biology; Biomedical Sciences; Biophysics; Genetics; Molecular Biology; Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology; Neuroscience
  • Courses Biol110 Cell biology, Biol127 Mechanisms of Neurodegenerative Disease, Biol200A Critical Analysis, Biol200C Graduate Cell Biology

Summary of Expertise

Intracellular protein machines and molecular mechanisms

Genetics

Fluorescence Microscopy 

Biography, Education and Training

Education 

1975            B.S., Microbiology, University of Minnesota

1982            M.S., Biology, California State University, Northridge

1986            Ph.D., Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder

 

Positions 

1990-97      Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biology, Indiana University

1990-97      Fellow of The Indiana Molecular Biology Institute

1997-03      Associate Professor, Dept. of Biology, , Indiana University

1997-07      Senior Fellow of The Indiana Molecular Biology Institute 

2003-07      Professor, Dept. of Biology, Indiana University

 

2007-          Professor, Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology, University of California Santa Cruz

2016-          Department Chair, Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology, University of California Santa Cruz

 

 

Honors, Awards and Grants

1991-96           NIH R01 GM46295:  Mechanisms and Functions of Subcellular motility, $798,792 (D+I).

1994                Co-Investigator, NIH Equipment Grant for transmission electron microscope,  $100,000 (D).

1994-99           American Heart Association Established Investigatorship:  Functions and Mechanisms of Intracellular Motility,  $336,055 (D).

1995                Co-Investigator, I. U. Shared Equipment Grant, (Principle Investigator: R. Raff, Institute for Molecular and Cellular Biology),  $100,000 (D).

1996-00           NIH R01 GM46295.  Mechanisms and Functions of Subcellular motility, $931,650 (D+I).

1997                NIH-Shared Instrumentation Grant for a Scanning Electron Microscope.  $194,000 (D).

1999-04           NIH GM58811. Cytoplasmic Motility In Early Development. $886,992 (D+I)

2000-06           NIH R01 GM46295.  Mechanisms and Functions of Subcellular Motility.  $1,134,616 (D+I)

2001-03           INGEN (54-246-02), Bloomington INGEN Light Microscopy Core Facilities.  $334,000 (D)

2005-06           MetaCYT Award for Mechanisms of Chromosome and Spindle Pole Movements in Mitosis.  $67,532 (D)

2006                IU COAS FRSP Award for An ultra-sensitive, high-speed spinning disk microscope.  $104,856 (D)

2006-07           MetaCYT Award for Mechanisms of Chromosome and Spindle Pole Movements in Mitosis.  $67,250 (D)

2006-11           NIH R01 GM46295.  Mechanisms and Functions of Subcellular Motility.  $1,242,076 (D+I)

2010-12           Co-PI,  HRD-1026880  California LSAMP Bridge to the Doctorate.  $987,000 (D+I)

 

20013-17         NIH R01 GM46295.  Mechanisms and Functions of Subcellular Motility.  $1,242,076 (D+I)