Editorial Overview: Membranes and organelles: rethinking membrane structure, function and compartments

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Satyajit Mayor With an M.Sc. in Chemistry from IIT Bombay, and Ph.D. in Life Sciences from The Rockefeller University, New York, Satyajit Mayor's postdoctoral training was at the Department of Pathology at Columbia University, New York, USA. Satyajit Mayor currently heads the National Centre for Biological Sciences, TIFR, and is the Director of the Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine (inStem) at Bangalore. The broad aim of Mayor's laboratory is to understand the physico-chemical principles behind the organization of the cell membrane at multiple scales and in the construction of endocytic machinery, and understand physiological consequences of the membrane organization and endocytosis at the level of cells and tissues.

Anne Spang received her training in the fields of chemical engineering and biochemistry in Darmstadt (Germany) and Paris (France) and works now mostly at the borders of biochemistry, genetics, molecular, cell and developmental biology. She performed her PhD studies in the group of Elmar Schiebel at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry (Germany) and her postdoctoral work with Randy Schekman at UC Berkeley (USA), after which she was an independent group leader at the Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the Max Planck Society (Germany) and then moved to the Biozentrum of the University of Basel (Switzerland), where she is Professor of Biochemistry. Her work focuses on compartmentalization on membranes and in the cytoplasm and on how molecules, in particular proteins and mRNA, reach their correct subcellular localization, how these localization processes are controlled, and the changes that occur during the cell-cycle, in development and under stress conditions in single and multicellular organisms.

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