Matthew T Swulius
California Institute of Technology, USA
Biography
Matthew T Swulius has completed his PhD at University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston in 2010, where he studied structural and protein compositional changes in the synapse throughout development. He is currently a senior Post-doc in Grant Jensen’s lab at Caltech, where he has contributed to the field of bacterial cell biology by studying the MreB cytoskeleton using electron cryotomography and to eukar yotic cell division using cryo-focused ion beam milling and correlated light and electron microscopy to image the native structure of the actomyosin ring in fission yeast.