Professor
Peter J. Novick
UC San Diego School of Medicine
Cell biologist; Biochemist; Educator
Area
Biological Sciences
Specialty
Cellular and Developmental Biology
Elected
2006
Professor of Cell Biology. Led the genetic and molecular discovery of the role of small GTPases in targeting vesicles within the eukaryotic cell. Defined regulatory proteins that activate the GTPase, Sec4p, and a multisubunit exocyst that guides the Sec4-vesicle complex to the cell surface.
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