Lencer Laboratory
Ramiro Massol
| Hospital Title | Staff Scientist |
| Academic Title | Instructor of Pediatrics |
| 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.
