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Ulrike  Eggert

Professor Ulrike Eggert

Professor of Chemical Biology

Research interests

  • Chemistry

Biography

Cell division is an important fundamental biological process required for life, growth and development. It requires the coordinated action of many different cellular machines and regulators. Although we have known that cells divide since the concept of the cell was first established, there are many outstanding mechanistic questions, especially in cytokinesis, the final step where cells physically divide. Cytokinesis has been difficult to study because it is a complex, rapid and dynamic process. Many key proteins also perform important functions earlier in the cell cycle, which makes it challenging to investigate their roles during cytokinesis using traditional techniques. New approaches are therefore needed to overcome these barriers to deeper understanding, one of which is to develop probes that act rapidly and with high temporal control.

Our group uses chemical biology and cell biology approaches to study cytokinesis at the process, pathway, protein and metabolite levels.

We have received funding from the Wellcome Trust and the European Research Council. Our lab is in the Department of Chemistry and the Randall Centre for Cell and Molecular Biophysics.

    Research

    ARTICLE DNA
    Eggert Group

    The Eggert Group uses chemical and cell biology approaches to study cytokinesis at the process, pathway, protein and metabolite levels.

    OILRIG
    Lipids and Membranes Research Interest Group

    A Lipids and Membranes Research Interest Group

    News

    Researchers awarded £3.5m to study how certain cells use and resist force

    Researchers have long understood that biochemical signals affect cells, and recently it has been recognised that mechanical forces regulate a wide variety of...

    An airway bronchoconstricting

      Research

      ARTICLE DNA
      Eggert Group

      The Eggert Group uses chemical and cell biology approaches to study cytokinesis at the process, pathway, protein and metabolite levels.

      OILRIG
      Lipids and Membranes Research Interest Group

      A Lipids and Membranes Research Interest Group

      News

      Researchers awarded £3.5m to study how certain cells use and resist force

      Researchers have long understood that biochemical signals affect cells, and recently it has been recognised that mechanical forces regulate a wide variety of...

      An airway bronchoconstricting