Danielle Grotjahn's guest appearances

Danielle Grotjahn

RadioBio

Deborah Gordon

Jason Shepherd

Joanna Chiu

Embriette Hyde

Robert Phillips

Alison Davis

John Stark

Jennifer Martiny

Joe Bondy-Denomy

Noah Whiteman

Samuel Wasser

Allison Hansen

Anita Sil

Joanne Emerson

Eric Delwart

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We often imagine a cell as a large balloon filled with jelly, but really it is more like a large city. Packages need to go from one place to the  other in an organized fashion as to not disrupt other processes. For example, when we need an item, we go to the store or click away on  retail websites, but how do these items find their way to the retail place or our house? There are vehicles on roads and highways that are utilized for distribution. Much like the infrastructure that we use  everyday to move cargo around our cities, the cell has its own system to  deliver goods from one place to another. What are the 18 wheelers of  the cell, how do they move such important packages, and how do they know where to go? Cytoplasmic dynein is a protein complex that transports molecular cargo along and plays a key role in the intracellular trafficking network. Dr. Danielle Grotjahn utilizes specialized imaging techniques to study these structures and the function of motor proteins.

RadioBio Interviews Dr. Danielle Grotjahn