Honors College Assistant Professor of Biology Dr. Nicholas Quintyne is a co-author of a work that appears in the March 2006 issue of the leading international journal 'Nature Cell Biology'. The work is titled "A microtubule-binding domain in dynactin increases dynein processivity by skating along microtubules" and is presently available online. The article was co-authored with the laboratory of Dr. Stephen King at the University of Missouri - Kansas City.
Dr. Quintyne is recently the recipient of a New Project Development Award to work on "Multipolar Spindle Formation in Cancer Cells."