Research Funding

  • February 1, 2019 - January 31, 2024 - Origins of Cell Geometry , Principal Investigator . Sponsor: NIH, Sponsor Award ID: R35GM130327
  • April 1, 2009 - June 30, 2023 - Integrative Program in Complex Biological System (ipCBS) , Principal Investigator . Sponsor: NIH, Sponsor Award ID: T32EB009383
  • September 1, 2010 - July 31, 2019 - Exploring Design Principles of Cellular Control Circuits , Co-Investigator . Sponsor: NIH, Sponsor Award ID: P50GM081879
  • May 1, 2011 - April 30, 2019 - Modeling and Analysis of the Flagellar Length Control System , Principal Investigator . Sponsor: NIH, Sponsor Award ID: R01GM097017
  • February 1, 2015 - January 31, 2019 - Pattern formation and regeneration in a single cell , Principal Investigator . Sponsor: NIH, Sponsor Award ID: R01GM113602
  • September 30, 1996 - June 30, 2016 - Comprehensive Biology: Exploiting the Yeast Genome , Co-Investigator . Sponsor: NIH, Sponsor Award ID: P41RR011823
  • March 1, 2006 - July 31, 2015 - Genetic Analysis of Centriole Orientation , Principal Investigator . Sponsor: NIH, Sponsor Award ID: R01GM077004
  • September 30, 2009 - August 31, 2014 - Pattern formation & regeneration in a single cell , Principal Investigator . Sponsor: NIH, Sponsor Award ID: R01GM090305
  • July 1, 2006 - June 30, 2008 - Centriole Orientation During Left/Right Symmetry Breaking in the Mouse , Principal Investigator . Sponsor: NIH, Sponsor Award ID: R03HD051583
  • June 1, 2007 - May 31, 2008 - Small Molecule Inhibitors of Cilia , Principal Investigator . Sponsor: NIH, Sponsor Award ID: R03MH081217

Education

State University of New York at Stony Brook, BE, 1991, Electrical Engineering
State University of New York at Stony Brook, BS, 1991, Biochemistry
University of California, San Francisco, PhD, 1997, Biochemistry
Yale University, New Haven CT, Postdoc, 1997-2003, Cell Biology

Honors & Awards

  • Eta Kappa Nu Electrical Engineering Honor Society, 1990
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute Predoctoral Fellowship, 1991 - 1996
  • Helen Hay Whitney Foundation Fellowship, 1997 - 2000
  • Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Special Fellowship, 2000-2003
  • Searle Scholar Award, 2005-2008
  • Dean's Recognition for Excellence in Teaching, School of Pharmacy, 2007, 2008
  • W.M Keck Foundation Distinguished Young Scholar in Medical Research, 2007
  • Herbert Boyer Junior Faculty Endowed Chair, 2009

Selected Publications

  1. Mirvis M, Weingard B, Goodman SN, Marshall WF. A scoping study of the whole-cell imaging literature: a foundational corpus, potential for mesoscale data synthesis, and implications for standardization of an emerging field. bioRxiv. 2025 Apr 05.  View on PubMed
  2. Tang SKY, Marshall WF. Physical Forces in Regeneration of Cells and Tissues. Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol. 2025 Apr 01; 17(4).  View on PubMed
  3. Boudreau V, Albright AR, Larson BT, Gerbich TM, Fadero T, Yan V, Lucas-DeMott A, Yung J, Moulin SLY, Descovich CP, Slabodnick MM, Burlacot A, Wang JR, Niyogi KK, Marshall WF. The cell biology and genome of Stentor pyriformis, a giant cell that embeds symbiotic algae in a microtubule meshwork. Mol Biol Cell. 2025 Apr 01; 36(4):ar44.  View on PubMed
  4. Rajan DH, Marshall WF. Cellular cognition: How single cells learn using non-neural networks. Curr Biol. 2024 Dec 16; 34(24):R1221-R1223.  View on PubMed
  5. Rajan DH, Marshall WF. A receptor-inactivation model for single-celled habituation in Stentor coeruleus. bioRxiv. 2024 Nov 19.  View on PubMed
  6. Lannan J, Floyd C, Xu LX, Yan C, Marshall WF, Vaikuntanathan S, Dinner AR, Honts JE, Bhamla S, Elting MW. Fishnet mesh of centrin-Sfi1 drives ultrafast calcium-activated contraction of the giant cell Spirostomum ambiguum. bioRxiv. 2024 Nov 08.  View on PubMed
  7. Chen J, Mirvis M, Ekman A, Vanslembrouck B, Le Gros M, Larabell C, Marshall WF. Automated segmentation of soft X-ray tomography: native cellular structure with sub-micron resolution at high throughput for whole-cell quantitative imaging in yeast. bioRxiv. 2024 Nov 01.  View on PubMed
  8. Marshall W, Baum B, Fairhall A, Heisenberg CP, Koslover E, Liu A, Mao Y, Mogilner A, Nelson CM, Paluch EK, Trepat X, Yap A. Where physics and biology meet. Curr Biol. 2024 Oct 21; 34(20):R950-R960.  View on PubMed
  9. Albright AR, Yan C, Angeles-Albores D, Makushok T, Allen-Henderson J, Marshall WF. Genome-wide analysis of anterior-posterior mRNA regionalization in Stentor coeruleus reveals a role for the microtubule cytoskeleton. bioRxiv. 2024 Oct 08.  View on PubMed
  10. Rajan D, Lee B, Albright A, Tang E, Maravillas A, Vargas C, Marshall WF, Cortes D. Phylogeny, morphology, and behavior of the new ciliate species Stentor stipatus. bioRxiv. 2024 Aug 04.  View on PubMed
  11. Accorsi A, Guo L, Marshall WF, Mommersteeg MTM, Nakajima YI. Extraordinary model systems for regeneration. Development. 2024 Oct 15; 151(20).  View on PubMed
  12. Marshall WF. Chlamydomonas as a model system to study cilia and flagella using genetics, biochemistry, and microscopy. Front Cell Dev Biol. 2024; 12:1412641.  View on PubMed
  13. Marshall WF, Fung JC. Modeling homologous chromosome recognition via nonspecific interactions. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2024 May 14; 121(20):e2317373121.  View on PubMed
  14. Larson BT, Marshall WF. Cell motility: Bioelectrical control of behavior without neurons. Curr Biol. 2024 02 26; 34(4):R137-R140.  View on PubMed
  15. Lewis GR, Marshall WF. Mitochondrial networks through the lens of mathematics. Phys Biol. 2023 Jul 14; 20(5).  View on PubMed
  16. McGillivary RM, Sood P, Hammar K, Marshall WF. The nuclear transport factor CSE1 drives macronuclear volume increase and macronuclear node coalescence in Stentor coeruleus. iScience. 2023 Aug 18; 26(8):107318.  View on PubMed
  17. Marshall WF, Fung JC. Homologous chromosome recognition via nonspecific interactions. bioRxiv. 2023 Jun 28.  View on PubMed
  18. Marshall WF. The flagellar length control system: exploring the physical biology of organelle size. Phys Biol. 2023 Jan 24; 20(2).  View on PubMed
  19. Ishikawa H, Moore J, Diener DR, Delling M, Marshall WF. Testing the ion-current model for flagellar length sensing and IFT regulation. Elife. 2023 01 13; 12.  View on PubMed
  20. Shekhar S, Guo H, Colin SP, Marshall W, Kanso E, Costello JH. Cooperative hydrodynamics accompany multicellular-like colonial organization in the unicellular ciliate Stentor. bioRxiv. 2023 Jan 12.  View on PubMed

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