Research Lab

Lencer Laboratory

Ramiro Massol

Hospital Title Staff Scientist
Academic Title Instructor of Pediatrics
Email Ramiro.Massol@childrens.harvard.edu
Education: 1997 – 2000 Ph.D. in Biochemistry South National University (Bahía Blanca, Argentina)
1990 – 1995 B.S. South National University (Bahía Blanca, Argentina
Postdoctoral Training: 2001 – 2006 Postdoctoral Fellow CBR IBR, Dept. Cell Biology, Harvard University
Internships, residencies, clinical and research fellowships: 1997 – 2000 Institutional Research Fellowship South National University
1996 Training in Clinical Biochemistry Fellowship "Dr.Penna" Hospital (Argentina)
1996 Graduate Academic Teaching and Research Fellowship ICI, Spain
1995 Undergraduate Research Scholarship South National University
1994 Undergraduate Research Scholarship South National University

Current Research:

Recent publications:

  • Role of lipids and actin in the formation of clathrin coated pits. Boucrot, E., Saffarian, S., Massol, R., Kirchhausen, T., and Ehrlich, M.. Experimental Cell Research 312, 4036-4048, 2007.
  • Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Is Internalized via a Rac-dependent, Dynamin-independent Endocytic Pathway. Kumari, S., Borroni, V., Chaudhry, A., Chanda, B., Massol, R.H., Mayor, S. and Barrantes, F.J. Journal of Cell Biol, 181, 1179-1193, 2008.
  • Vesicular stomatitis virus enters cells through vesicles incompletely coated with clathrin that depend upon actin for internalization. Cureton, D., Massol, R.H., Kirchhausen, T., Whelan, S.. Accepted, PLOS Pathogens, 2009
  • The recycling and transcytotic pathways for IgG transport by FcRn are distinct and display an inherent polarity. Tzaban, S., Massol, R.H., Yen, E., Hamman, W., Scott, R.F., Lapierre, L.A., Goldenring, J.R., Blumberg, R., and Lencer, W.I. Accepted, Journal Cell Biology, 2009
  • Shiga toxin increases formation of clathrin coated pits through Syk kinase. Utskarpen, A., Massol, R.H., van Deurs, B., Lauvrak, S.U., Kirchhausen, T., and Sandvig, K. Manuscript in preparation.