Cohen-Fix, Orna, Ph.D.
individual record
Senior Investigator
Positions:
- Senior Investigator, Cell Cycle Regulation and Nuclear Structure Section, Laboratory of Cell and Molecular Biology
overview
- Adjunct Professor, Johns Hopkins University, 2011–Present
- Director, the NIH/Johns Hopkins University Graduate Partnership Program, NIH, 2008–present
- Senior Investigator and Section Chief, NIDDK, NIH, 2005–Present
- Tenure-Track Investigator, NIDDK, NIH, 1998–2005
- Postdoctoral Fellow, The Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1994–1998
- Ph.D., Weizmann Institute of Science, 1994
- M.S., Weizmann Institute of Science, 1989
- B.A., Tel-Aviv University, 1986
selected publications
Academic Articles54
- (2020). C. elegans pronuclei fuse after fertilization through a novel membrane structure. JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY. 219(2),
- (2019). Nuclear envelope expansion in budding yeast is independent of cell growth and does not determine nuclear volume. MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE CELL. 30(1), 131-145.
- (2019). The Multiple Ways Nuclei Scale on a Multinucleated Muscle Cell Scale. DEVELOPMENTAL CELL. 49(1), 3-5.
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- (2017). Live-imaging analysis of germ cell proliferation in the C-elegans adult supports a stochastic model for stem cell proliferation. DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY. 423(2), 93-100.
- (2016). Editorial overview: The cell nucleus: Plastic, elastic and fantastic. CURRENT OPINION IN CELL BIOLOGY. 40, IV-V.
- (2016). The Malleable Nature of the Budding Yeast Nuclear Envelope: Flares, Fusion, and Fenestrations. JOURNAL OF CELLULAR PHYSIOLOGY. 231(11), 2353-2360.
- (2015). Caenorhabditis elegans polo-like kinase PLK-1 is required for merging parental genomes into a single nucleus. MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE CELL. 26(25), 4718-4735.
- (2014). Down-regulation of tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle genes blocks progression through the first mitotic division in Caenorhabditis elegans embryos. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 111(7), 2602-2607.
- (2014). Morphology and function of membrane-bound organelles. CURRENT OPINION IN CELL BIOLOGY. 26, 79-86.