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Office of Science and Technology
Staff Scientist
Phone: 301-496-6164
Building: 50, Room: 1535
E-mail: ralstone@mail.nih.gov
Dr. Ralston received her undergraduate degree and Ph.D. in Chemistry from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium). Her Ph.D. work was on simulation of peptide and protein folding by computational approaches. She carried out postdoctoral work at the National Research Council of Canada (Ottawa) and at the NCI, studying protein-lipid interactions with Robert Blumenthal. After returning to Belgium briefly she moved to the United States permanently and took a position as Visiting and later as Adjunct Assistant Professor at UCSF. She joined the NINDS in 1991 where her laboratory studied the subcellular organization of muscle cells and its changes during myogenesis. Dr. Ralston and her colleagues moved to NIAMS in 2002.
Other NIAMS Affiliations
Light Imaging Section
Selected Publications
Ralston E, Swaim B, Czapiga M, Hwu WL, Chien YH, Pittis MG, Bembi B, Schwartz O, Plotz P, Raben N. Detection and imaging of non-contractile inclusions and sarcomeric anomalies in skeletal muscle by second harmonic generation combined with two-photon excited fluorescence.
J Struct Biol. 2008 Jun;162(3):500-8. Epub 2008 Apr 8, DOI: 10.1016/j.jsb.2008.03.010.
Ralston, E., Lu Z., Biscocho, N., Soumaka, E., Mavroidis, M., Prats, C., Lømo, T., Capetanaki, Y. & Ploug, T. Blood vessels and desmin control the positioning of nuclei in skeletal muscle fibers. J. Cell. Physiol. Published Online: 13 Sep 2006 DOI: 10.1002/jcp.20780.
Bugnard E, Zaal KJ, Ralston E. Reorganization of microtubule nucleation during muscle differentiation. Cell Motil Cytoskeleton. 2005; 60(1): 1-13.
Ralston, E., Ploug, T., Kalhovde, J., and Lømo, T. Golgi complex, ER exit sites and microtubules in skeletal muscle fibers are organized by patterned activity. J. Neurosci. 2001; 21, 875-883.
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.
