Dr. Ilya Levental

Profile

Academic positionLecturer, Assistant Professor, Researcher
Research fieldsCell Biology,Biophysics,Anatomy and Physiology
KeywordsEpithelial polarization, Lipid rafts, Membrane structure, Protein sorting

Current contact address

CountryUnited States of America
CityHouston
InstitutionThe University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth)
InstituteDepartment of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Kai L. SimonsMax-Planck-Institut für molekulare Zellbiologie und Genetik, Dresden
Start of initial sponsorship01/09/2008

Programme(s)

2008Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2011Ilya Levental, Michal Grzybek, Kai Simons: Raft domains of various properties and compositions in plasma membrane vesicles . In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 2011, 11411-11416
2010Ilya Levental, Michal Grzybek, Kai Simons: Greasing their way: protein partitioning to membrane rafts . In: Biochemistry, 2010,
2010Ilya Levental, Daniel Lingwood, Michal Grzybek, Uenal Coskun, Kai Simons: Palmitoylation regulates raft affinity for the majority of integral raft proteins . In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA, 2010, 22050-22054
2009Daniel Lingwood, Herman-Josef Kaiser, Ilya Levental, Kai Simons: Lipid rafts as functional heterogeneity in cell membranes. In: Biochemical Society Transactions, 2009, 955-960
2009Herman-Josef Kaiser, Daniel Lingwood, Ilya Levental, Julio Sampaio, Lucie Kalvodova, Kai Simons: Order of lipid phases in model and plasma membranes. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A., 2009, 16645-16650