Lab Report
Link to Anderson Scientific Report 2008 182.65 Kb
Key Publications
Weisswange I, Bretschneider T, Anderson KI (2005). The leading edge is a lipid diffusion barrier. J Cell Sci. 118, 4375-80.
Gerisch G, Bretschneider T, Muller-Taubenberger A, Simmeth E, Ecke M, Diez S, Anderson K (2004). Mobile actin clusters and travelling waves in cells recovering from actin depolymerization. Biophys J. 87, 3493-503.
Anderson KI, Wang YL, Small JV (1996). Coordination of protrusion and translocation of the keratocyte involves rolling of the cell body. J Cell Biol. 134, 1209-18.
Biography
Education and qualifications
1997: PhD, University of Salzburg, Supervisor Vic Small
1992: BSc, Microbiology (with distinction), University of Maine
1992: BA, German (with distinction), University of Maine
Appointments
2005-present: Group Leader, Beatson Institute for Cancer Research
2000-2005: Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Germany
1997-2000: Postdoctoral Fellow with Rob Cross, MCRI, Oxted
Committee membership
2007-present: ELMI Steering Committee
2007-present: Advisory Board, Rockefeller University Bio-Imaging Center
Recent Publications
Valdembri D, Caswell PT, Anderson KI, Schwarz JP, König I, Astanina E, Caccavari F, Norman JC, Humphries MJ, Bussolino F, Serini G (2009). Neuropilin-1/GIPC1 signaling regulates alpha5beta1 integrin traffic and function in endothelial cells. PLoS Biol. 7, e25.
Konig I, Schwarz JP, Anderson KI (2008). Fluorescence lifetime imaging: Association of cortical action with a PIP3-rich membrane compartment. Eur J Cell Biol. 87, 735-41.
Patel H, Konig I, Tsujioka M, Frame MC, Anderson KI, Brunton VG (2008). The multi-FERM-domain-containing protein FrmA is required for turnover of paxillin-adhesion sites during cell migration of Dictyostelium. J Cell Sci. 121, 1159-64.
Anderson KI, Sanderson J, Peychl J (2007). Design and function of a light microscopy facility. In S. Shorte, ed. Imaging Cellular and Molecular Biological Functions. Heidelberg: Springer; 93-114.
Caswell PT, Spence HJ, Parsons M, White DP, Clark K, Cheng KW, Mills GB, Humphries MJ, Messent AJ, Anderson KI, McCaffrey MW, Ozanne BW, Norman JC (2007). Rab25 associates with alpha5beta1 integrin to promote invasive migration in 3D microenvironments. Developmental Cell 13, 496-510.
Muller-Taubenberger A, Anderson KI (2007). Recent advances using green and red fluorescent protein variants. Applied Microbiol Biotechnol. 77, 1-12.
Anderson KI, Sanderson J, Gerwig S, Peychl J (2006). A new configuration of the Zeiss LSM 510 for simultaneous optical separation of green and red fluorescent protein pairs. Cytometry Part A 69, 920-9.
Clarke M, Muller-Taubenberger A, Anderson KI, Engel U, Gerisch G (2006). Mechanically induced actin-mediated rocketing of phagosomes. Mol Biol Cell 17, 4866-75.
Reorganisation of the actin cytoskeleton drives the migration of malignant cells. We are developing techniques in light microscopy to study the molecular interactions that underlie this reorganisation. 
