Scott D. Emr

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American cell biologist

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FieldValue
nameScott D. Emr
imagescott emr.jpg
birth_nameScott David Emr
birth_date
birth_placeJersey City, New Jersey, United States
nationalityAmerican
fieldsCell biology
workplacesCornell University
University of California, San Diego
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
California Institute of Technology
University of California, Berkeley
alma_materHarvard University
University of Rhode Island
doctoral_advisorThomas Silhavy
Jonathan Beckwith
thesis_titleProtein localization in Escherichia coli
thesis_year1981
thesis_urlhttp://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990038511130203941/catalog
known_forResearch in membrane vesicle trafficking
awardsShaw Prize in Life science and Medicine
spouseMichelle Emr
children2
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| name = Scott D. Emr | image = scott emr.jpg | birth_name = Scott David Emr | birth_date = | birth_place = Jersey City, New Jersey, United States | death_date = | death_place = | death_cause = | citizenship = | nationality = American | fields = Cell biology | workplaces = Cornell University University of California, San Diego Howard Hughes Medical Institute California Institute of Technology University of California, Berkeley | education = | alma_mater = Harvard University University of Rhode Island | doctoral_advisor = Thomas Silhavy Jonathan Beckwith | doctoral_students = | thesis_title = Protein localization in Escherichia coli | thesis_year = 1981 | thesis_url = http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990038511130203941/catalog | known_for = Research in membrane vesicle trafficking | awards = Shaw Prize in Life science and Medicine | spouse = Michelle Emr | children = 2

Scott D. Emr (born February 8, 1954) is an American cell biologist and the founding and current Director of the Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology at Cornell University, where he is also a Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of 1956 Professor at the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics.

Early life and education

Emr was born in Jersey City and grew up in Fort Lee, New Jersey. His father was a manager of a manufacturing company. He has a sister and two brothers.

The 1960s documentary The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau prompted him to pick a university with a strong oceanography program, starting in 1972 at the University of Rhode Island as a biology major. He became interested in genetics during his undergraduate years. He started his PhD in 1976 at the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at Harvard University, working under Thomas Silhavy and Jonathan Beckwith and graduating in 1981.

Career

Emr began his career at the University of California, Berkeley as a Miller Institute Fellow and a postdoctoral researcher at Randy Schekman's group. He moved to the California Institute of Technology in 1983, becoming an assistant, and later associate professor, at the Division of Biology.

George Emil Palade recruited Emr to the University of California, San Diego in 1991, where he stayed as a Distinguished Professor at the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine and, at the same time, an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He left for Cornell University in 2007 when he was appointed as the founding director of the Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology (later renamed to Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology after a donation from Joan and Sanford I. Weill) and a Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of 1956 Professor at the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics.

Academically, Emr serves on the editorial boards of several scientific journals, including (as of 2021) mBio, Journal of Cell Biology, Trends in Cell Biology, and Current Opinion in Cell Biology.

Research

Emr's research focuses on the regulation of membrane vesicle trafficking pathways. His lab's study of the ESCRT (endosomal sorting complexes required for transport) complexes earned him a Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine. ESCRTs are required for the degradation of membrane protein at the lysosome, a late step in cytokinesis, and the budding and release of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

His other research interests include lipid signaling (especially a group of lipids known as phosphatidylinositol phosphates), protein transport in cells by vesicles and the role of arrestin and ubiquitylation in the degradation of membrane proteins.

Honors and awards

Personal life

Emr met his wife Michelle in his junior year at university. She was also in her third year, majoring in music and early education. They married three years later when Emr was pursuing his PhD. As of 2021, their daughter Bryanna is a pediatric surgeon in Pittsburgh, and their son Kevin is an anesthesiologist in Albany, New York.

References

References

  1. Emr, Scott David. (1981). "Protein localization in Escherichia coli". [[Harvard University]].
  2. (June 1, 2021). "Scott D Emr". [[Shaw Prize.
  3. (2017). "BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH". [[Cornell University]].
  4. "Autobiography of Scott D Emr". The Shaw Prize Foundation.
  5. "The Emr Lab". Cornell University.
  6. "All Miller Fellows: By Name". [[University of California, Berkeley]].
  7. "Scott D. Emr, PhD". [[Howard Hughes Medical Institute]].
  8. (June 13, 2007). "Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology benefits from $25 million gift from the Weills". [[Cornell Chronicle]].
  9. (May 24, 2006). "A major hire to advance and extend life sciences at Cornell". Cornell Chronicle.
  10. "mBio Board of Editors". [[mBio]].
  11. "Editorial Board". [[Journal of Cell Biology]].
  12. "Advisory board". [[Trends (journals).
  13. "Editorial Board". [[Current Opinion in Cell Biology]].
  14. (June 1, 2021). "Press Release". The Shaw Prize Foundation.
  15. (2001). "Ubiquitin-Dependent Sorting into the Multivesicular Body Pathway Requires the Function of a Conserved Endosomal Protein Sorting Complex, ESCRT-I". [[Cell (journal).
  16. (2019). "Electrostatic lateral interactions drive ESCRT-III heteropolymer assembly". [[eLife]].
  17. (1998). "Phosphatidylinositol(3)-phosphate signaling mediated by specific binding to RING FYVE domains". [[Molecular Cell]].
  18. (2018). "Membrane protein recycling from the vacuole/lysosome membrane". [[Journal of Cell Biology]].
  19. (2008). "Arrestin-related ubiquitin-ligase adaptors regulate endocytosis and protein turnover at the cell surface". Cell.
  20. Spiro, Mary. (September 22, 2017). "Cornell's Scott D. Emr to deliver 2017 Porter Lecture". [[American Society for Cell Biology]].
  21. "Elected Fellows". [[American Association for the Advancement of Science]].
  22. "Scott D. Emr". [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]].
  23. "Scott D. Emr". [[National Academy of Sciences]].
  24. (May 1, 2007). "72 new members chosen by academy". [[American Association for the Advancement of Science#EurekAlert!.
  25. "Avanti Award in Lipids". [[American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology]].
  26. "Scott D. Emr". [[European Molecular Biology Organization]].
  27. (October 16, 2008). "Emr elected associate member of elite European Molecular Biology Organization". Cornell Chronicle.
  28. "Van Deenen Medal". Institute of Biomembranes, [[Utrecht University]].
  29. "Keith R. Porter Lecture". [[American Society for Cell Biology]].
  30. "Scott Emr". American Society for Cell Biology.
  31. [https://www.cuimc.columbia.edu/research/louisa-gross-horwitz-prize Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize 2024]

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