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The new Cell Structure and Function Study Section will review applications that focus broadly on elucidating basic molecular mechanisms of cells and tissues.  These applications emphasize nuclear architecture, cytoskeletal dynamics, membrane traffic, organelle biogenesis, cell and organelle motility, exocytosis, endocytosis, and intercellular targeting of proteins.   These topics are investigated using cell biological, biophysical, molecular, biochemical, morphologic and structural approaches and employing various model systems  including bacteria, yeast, flies, worms, plants, cultured cells and mice.  Specific areas include:
 

• Cytoskeletal and nuclear dynamics; functional and biophysical studies of actin and microtubule filaments, motors and cargos, and specialized structures including cilia and flagella
• Nuclear architecture and chromatin structure function, including nuclear matrix components, nuclear envelope, nucleoli, subnuclear organelles, lamins, telomeres and centromeres
• Organelle biogenesis (for example mitochondria, chloroplasts, peroxisomes and lysosomes/vacuoles, Golgi), including organelle maintenance, proliferation, segregation, and dynamics
• Cellular trafficking and nuclear transport, targeting, translocation, and processing of newly synthesized proteins and vesicular cargos
• Chromosome movement, spindle structure and dynamics, cytokinesis
• Mechanical properties and forces of cells, cell motility, and cell adhesion, extracellular matrix interactions with the cytoskeleton, adhesions, and membrane trafficking components

Study sections with most closely related areas or similar science listed in rank order are:

Synapses, Cytoskeleton, and Trafficking [SYN]
Molecular Genetics C [MGC] 
Membrane Biology and Protein Processing [MBPP]
Cellular Signaling and Regulatory Systems [CSRS]
Intercellular Interactions [ICI]