Postdoctoral Fellow (2018 – present)
email: matthew.hannaford@nih.gov
phone: (301) 827-1118
HISTORY
2010 – 2013 – B.S., Bangor University, Wales (Biology)
2013 – 2018 – Ph.D., University of Dundee, Scotland. (advisor: Dr. Jens Januschke)
RESEARCH
– Mechanisms of cell polarization via centrosome positioning
PUBLICATIONS
6. Ryniawec JM*, Hannaford MR*, Zibrat ME, Fagerstrom CJ, Galletta BJ, Aguirre SE, Guice BA, Dean SM, Rusan NM, Rogers GC. (2023) Cep104 is a component of the centriole distal tip complex that promotes centriole growth and contributes to Drosophila spermiogenesis. In Revision for Current Biology
(* co-first authors)
5. Hannaford MR, Liu R, Billington N, Swider ZT, Galletta BJ, Fagerstrom CJ, Combs C, Sellers JR, Rusan NM. (2022) Pericentrin interacts with Kinesin-1 to drive centriole motility. J Cell Biol. 2022 Sep 5;221(9)
4. Hannaford M, Loyer N, Tonelli F, Zoltner M, Januschke J. (2019) A chemical-genetics approach to study the role of atypical Protein Kinase C in Drosophila. Development, Jan 29;146(2).
3. Clemente GD, Hannaford MR, Beati H, Kapp K, Januschke J, Griffis ER, Müller HJ. (2018) Requirement of the Dynein-Adaptor Spindly for Mitotic and Post-Mitotic Functions in Drosophila. Journal of Developmental Biology, Mar 30;6(2).
2. Hannaford MR, Ramat A, Loyer N, Januschke J. (2018) aPKC-mediated displacement and actomyosin-mediated retention polarize Miranda in Drosophila neuroblasts. Elife, Jan 24;7
1. Ramat A, Hannaford M, Januschke J. (2017) Maintenance of Miranda Localization in Drosophila Neuroblasts Involves Interaction with the Cognate mRNA. Current Biology, Jul 24;27(14):2101-2111
INVITED TALKS (from the Rusan lab)
2023 – Seminar – Department of Biochemistry, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
2022 – GSA 63rd Annual Drosophila Meeting – San Diego, CA
2021 – Seminar – Developmental Biology Group, University of Manchester, UK
2020 – ASCB/EMBO Cell Biology Meeting (Virtual).
2019 – ASCB/EMBO Cell Biology Meeting, Washington, D.C.
2019 – NIH Centrosome Meeting, Frederick, MD.
POSTER PRESENTATIONS (from the Rusan lab)
2023 – GSA 64th Annual Drosophila meeting, Chicago, IL
2022 – ASCB/EMBO Meeting 2022, Washington D.C.
2021 – ASCB/EMBO Meeting 2021, Virtual
2021 – GSA Annual Drosophila Conference, Virtual
2019 – ASCB/EMBO Meeting 2019, Washington D.C.
2019 – ASCB Triangle Cytoskeleton Meeting, Saxapahaw, NC
2019 – GRC Motile and Contractile Systems, New Hampshire
2019 – NHLBI Research Festival, Bethesda, MD
OF NOTE
2020-current – Lenfant Biomedical Research Fellowship – F32 equivalent
2020 – NIH Fellows Award for Research Excellence (FARE)
2015 – Best Oral Presentation (UNB Graduate Research Conference)
2014 – EMBL Advance Light Microscopy Course