Claire Walczak
Associate Professor
Office: Myers Hall 262
Phone: 812/855-5919
Email: cwalczak 
indiana.edu
Education
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1993Research
Mechanisms of mitotic spindle assembly.Representative Publications
* Stout, J.R., Rizk, R. and Walczak, C.E. (2009). Protein Inhibition by Microinjection and RNA-mediated Interface in Tissue Culture Cells: Complimentary Approaches to Study Protein Function. Methods in Mol. Biol. 518:1-21.
* Rizk, R., Bohannon, K., Wetzel, L., Powers, J.A., Shaw, S.L., and Walczak, C.E. (2009). MCAK and Paclitaxel Have Differential Effects on Spindlee Organization and Microtubule Dynamics. Mol. Biol. Cell. E-pub ahead of print. * Cai, S. and Walczak, C.E. (2008). Kinetochore Attachment: How the Hec can a cell do it? Curr. Biol. 18: R1093-1096.
* Walczak, C.E. and Heald, R.E. (2008). Mechanisms of Spindle Assembly and Chromosome Segregation. Int. Rev. Cytology 265: 111-158.
* Cai, S., Weaver, L., Ems-McClung, S.C., and Walczak, C.E. (2008). Kinesin-14 Family Proteins HSET/XCTK2 Control Spindle Morphology by Cross-Linking and Sliding Microtubules. Mol. Biol. Cell. E-pub ahead of print.
* Zhang, X., Ems-McClung, S.C., and Walczak, C.E. (2008). Aurora A Phosphorylates MCAK to Control Ran-dependent Spindle Bipolarity. Mol. Biol. Cell. 19: 2752-2765.
* Shaw SL, Walczak C.E. (2007). Spindles: One Speckle at a Time. Nat. Cell Biol. 9:1223-1224. PMID: .
* Zhang, X., Lan, W., Ems-McClung, S.C., Stukenberg, P.T., and Walczak, C.E. (2007). Aurora B Phosphorylates Multiple Sites on Mitotic Centromere-Associated Kinesin to Spatially and Temporally Regulate its Function. Mol. Biol. Cell. 18: 3264-3276. PMID:
* Ems-McClung, S.C., Hertzer, K.M., Zhang, X., Miller, M., and Walczak, C.E. (2007). The Interplay of the N- and C-terminal Domains of MCAK Control Microtubule Depolymerization Activity and Spindle Assembly. Mol. Biol. Cell. 18: 282-294.
