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Office of Science and Technology
Staff Scientist
Phone: 301-451-4816
Building: 50, Room: 1533
E-mail: zaalk@mail.nih.gov
Dr. Zaal received her Masters degree in Plantbiology from the University of Wageningen and her Ph.D. in Medicine from the University of Groningen (both in the Netherlands). Her thesis work, part of which was done at the University of Vienna (Austria), focused on the sorting of fluorescent lipids in hepatocytes. She then joined the laboratory of Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz at NICHD as Visiting Fellow and studied the Golgi apparatus, using Green Fluorescent Protein techniques. In 2000, she became Staff Scientist in the Laboratory of Neurobiology at NINDS, expanding her work on organelle biology to the study of differentiating cells. She moved to NIAMS in 2002.
Other NIAMS Affiliations
Light Imaging Section
Selected Publications
Bugnard E, Zaal KJ, Ralston E. Reorganization of microtubule nucleation during muscle differentiation. Cell Motil Cytoskeleton. 2005; 60(1): 1-13.
Lu Z, Joseph D, Bugnard E, Zaal KJ, Ralston E. Golgi complex reorganization during muscle differentiation: visualization in living cells and mechanism. Mol Biol Cell. 2001; 12:795-808.
Lippincott-Schwartz J, Zaal KJ. Cell cycle maintenance and biogenesis of the Golgi complex. Histochem Cell Biol. 2000; 114:93-103.
Zaal KJ, Smith CL, Polishchuk RS, Altan N, Cole NB, Ellenberg J, Hirschberg K, Presley JF, Roberts TH, Siggia E, Phair RD, Lippincott-Schwartz J. Golgi membranes are absorbed into and reemerge from the ER during mitosis. Cell. 1999; 99:589-601
Lippincott-Schwartz J, Presley JF, Zaal KJ, Hirschberg K, Miller CD, Ellenberg J. Monitoring the dynamics and mobility of membrane proteins tagged with green fluorescent protein. Methods Cell Biol. 1999; 58:261-81.
