Collins, Ruth N.

Associate Professor

research

research and scholarship focus

  • Mechanism of action of Rab GTPases
  • Role of Yip family members in membrane traffic
  • Role of Elp1p in the neurological disease Familial dysautonomia (FD)
  • Bioinformatic studies of Rab GTPases
  • Subcellular localization of yeast Rab proteins

affiliations

faculty appointment in

member of graduate field

background

educational background

  • Post-doctoral Fellow, Yale University Cell Biology
  • Ph.D., Imperial College London/Cancer Research UK
  • B.S., University of Oxford, Biochemistry

publications

selected publications (listing in progress)

  • Collins RN. (2006) How the ER stays in shape. Cell. 124: 464-6.
  • Chen CZ and Collins RN. (2005) Analysis and properties of the yeast YIP1 family of Ypt-interacting proteins. Methods Enzymol. 403: 333-9.
  • Collins RN. (2005) Application of phylogenetic algorithms to assess Rab functional relationships. Methods Enzymol. 403: 19-28.
  • Nussbaum M and Collins RN. (2005) Use of search algorithms to define specificity in Rab GTPase domain function. Methods Enzymol. 403: 10-9.
  • Chen CZ and Collins RN. (2005) Insights into biological functions across species: examining the role of Rab proteins in YIP1 family function. Biochem Soc Trans. 2005 33:614-8.