Anna Marie Sokac Department of Cell and Developmental Biology University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Biography Publications Institution JoVE Articles Anna Marie Sokac Anna Marie Sokac is an Associate Professor in the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Dr. Sokac received her undergraduate degree with Honors from Carnegie Mellon University. She earned her Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin in Madison and was a postdoctoral fellow in the Wieschaus Lab at Princeton University. She started her independent career at Baylor College of Medicine, where she was promoted to the associate professor level. In 2019, she moved her lab to the University of Illinois.Dr. Sokac is a cell and developmental biologist. Throughout her career, she has studied how the actin cytoskeleton drives embryonic morphogenesis. Currently, her lab uses the Drosophila embryo to identify mechanisms of actin regulation that impact both the fidelity and stress resistance of morphogenesis. Publications Mechanical Networks Have Robustness Built into Their Topology, Too Developmental Cell. 09, 2019 | Pubmed ID: 31505172 Cofilin-Mediated Actin Stress Response Is Maladaptive in Heat-Stressed Embryos Cell Reports. 03, 2019 | Pubmed ID: 30917306 Seeing a Coastline Paradox in Membrane Reservoirs Developmental Cell. 12, 2017 | Pubmed ID: 29207254 -Back-to-back Mechanisms Drive Actomyosin Ring Closure During Drosophila Embryo Cleavage The Journal of Cell Biology. Nov, 2016 | Pubmed ID: 27799369 Stochastic Kinetics of Nascent RNA Physical Review Letters. Sep, 2016 | Pubmed ID: 27667861 Membrane Supply and Demand Regulates F-Actin in a Cell Surface Reservoir Developmental Cell. 05, 2016 | Pubmed ID: 27165556 Combining Protein and MRNA Quantification to Decipher Transcriptional Regulation Nature Methods. Aug, 2015 | Pubmed ID: 26098021 A Membrane Reservoir at the Cell Surface: Unfolding the Plasma Membrane to Fuel Cell Shape Change Bioarchitecture. Mar-Apr, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 24844289 The Plasma Membrane Flattens out to Fuel Cell-surface Growth During Drosophila Cellularization Developmental Cell. Dec, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 24316147 The Maternal-to-zygotic Transition Targets Actin to Promote Robustness During Morphogenesis PLoS Genetics. Nov, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 24244181 Local Actin-dependent Endocytosis is Zygotically Controlled to Initiate Drosophila Cellularization Developmental Cell. May, 2008 | Pubmed ID: 18477459 Zygotically Controlled F-actin Establishes Cortical Compartments to Stabilize Furrows During Drosophila Cellularization Journal of Cell Science. Jun, 2008 | Pubmed ID: 18460582 Cdc42-dependent Actin Polymerization During Compensatory Endocytosis in Xenopus Eggs Nature Cell Biology. Aug, 2003 | Pubmed ID: 12872130 Imaging Intranuclear Actin Rods in Live Heat Stressed Drosophila Embryos Natalie Biel1,2, Lauren Figard3, Anna Marie Sokac1,2,3 1Integrative Molecular and Biomedical Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine, 2Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 3Verna and Marrs McLean Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine JoVE 61297 Biologia do Desenvolvimento Imaging Cell Shape Change in Living Drosophila Embryos Lauren Figard1, Anna Marie Sokac1,2 1Program in Cell & Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), 2Verna & Marrs McLean Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) JoVE 2503 Biologia
Imaging Intranuclear Actin Rods in Live Heat Stressed Drosophila Embryos Natalie Biel1,2, Lauren Figard3, Anna Marie Sokac1,2,3 1Integrative Molecular and Biomedical Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine, 2Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 3Verna and Marrs McLean Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine JoVE 61297 Biologia do Desenvolvimento
Imaging Cell Shape Change in Living Drosophila Embryos Lauren Figard1, Anna Marie Sokac1,2 1Program in Cell & Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), 2Verna & Marrs McLean Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) JoVE 2503 Biologia