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The John J. Cebra Lectureship
7/09/10 - 9:00 AM - Lillie Auditorium
"Cellular Mechanosensing: Stretch it Once, Stretch it Twice, Stretch it Many Times"
Mike Sheetz, Columbia University
Dr. Michael Sheetz is currently Director of the RCE in Mechanobiology at NUS. He also is appointed as the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Biological Sciences at Columbia University and Co-Director of The Nanotechnology Center for Mechanics in Regenerative Medicine. He holds a joint appointment in Biomedical Engineering at Columbia. Prior to joining Columbia, he was Chair of Cell Biology at Duke University Medical Center and spent fourteen summers at the MBL. He was senior author on the paper defining kinesin that was from the MBL. His Ph.D. was in Chemistry at Caltech and he served as a postdoctoral fellow with Dr. S. Jon Singer (UCSD).
About the Cebra Lectureship:
Professor John J. Cebra was trained as an immunochemist and protein chemist during the mid 1950s through the 1960s at The Rockefeller University, St. Mary’s Hospital, London, and the Weizmann Institute, Israel. In 1961, he established his own lab in the department of microbiology, University of Florida. During the 1960s he became interested in secretory IgA, and his group established its prevalence as a product of gut plasmablasts and its valid quaternary structure. In the 1970s he and others developed many novel principles concerning the IgA system and its Ab product.
Until his death, in 2005, he was a professor of biology at the University of Pennsylvania where the Cebra group sought to understand the cellular and molecular mechanisms that led to the development of specific humoral and cellular mucosal immune responses, and the influence of commensal bacteria on mucosal immunity.
Professor Cebra directed the MBL Physiology course from 1972 to 1976. He and his wife Ethel traveled abroad extensively to engage students of experimental biology in joint research projects. These visits stimulated continuing collaborative scientific interactions between the Cebra lab and various host laboratories worldwide.
Professor Cebra considered his major accomplishment to be assisting in the training of 32 graduate students and many postdoctoral fellows.
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