BBA - Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids - Cellular Lipid Transport Processes and their Role in Human Disease

BBA Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids

BBA - Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids
External link  Cellular Lipid Transport Processes and their Role in Human Disease
Edited by Jean E. Vance and Dennis R. Voelker
Volume 1791, Issue 7, Pages 561-696 (July 2009)

This collection of 15 review articles is a summary of some of the recent advances in this rapidly expanding field. The trafficking of lipids among organelles, as well as across individual membranes, is presented with an emphasis on the role of these processes in human diseases.
Jean E. Vance (PhD, FRSC)

Jean E. Vance (PhD, FRSC) is a professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and a founding member of the Group on the Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids, which is an internationally recognized center for lipid research and for training future researchers in this area. She obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh under the direction of Ronald Bentley and was a postdoctoral fellow with Daniel Steinberg at the University of California at San Diego. She joined the faculty of the University of Alberta in 1987 and has had a long-standing interest in understanding the mechanisms of intracellular trafficking of phospholipids and cholesterol in mammalian cells, including cells of the nervous system.
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Dennis R. Voelker

Dennis R. Voelker received his Ph.D. from Oak Ridge National Laboratory/University of Tennessee under the mentorship of Fred Snyder, and performed postdoctoral research at Harvard Medical School with Eugene P. Kennedy. He is currently a professor of biochemistry, molecular genetics and medicine at the National Jewish Health Centre in Denver, Colorado, and holds a joint appointment at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. His research interests include the genetics and biochemistry of inter-organelle phospholipid transport in eukaryotes, and the structure-function relationship of lipids and proteins of the pulmonary surfactant system.

 
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