Scott Erdman

Associate Professor
Department of Biology
Syracuse University
United States of America

Academician Molecular Biology
Biography

Scott Erdman is an associate professor in Department of Biology of Syracuse University, New York United States. He specializes in determinining the molecular mechanisms that enable cells to dynamically alter their shape and surface adhesion properties in response to specific developmental or environmental cues.

Research Intrest

Changes in cell shape and adhesion are two fundamental hallmarks of the differentiation of eucaryotic cells, Analyses of a novel paxillin homolog and Rho GTPase signaling modulator, Pxl1p, Functional genomics of fungal control of lipid and membrane homeostasis.

List of Publications
Huang G, SD Dougherty, SE Erdman (2009) Conserved WCPL and CX4C Domains Mediate Several Mating Adhesin Interactions in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Genetics 182: 173-189.
DC Martin, H Kim, NA Mackin, L Maldonado- Báez, CC Evangelista Jr, et al. (2011) New regulators of a high affinity Ca2+ influx system revealed through a genome-wide screen in yeast. J Biol Chem. 286: 10744-54.