Current Projects:

Trainee projects in the Meier lab will be in the areas of mRNA export in plants; nuclear pore and nuclear envelope structure and function; nucleocytoplasmic trafficking; and the function of long coiled-coil proteins in plant nuclear and cellular organization.

Five Current Publications:

• Zhou X, Graumann K, Evans E and Meier I (2012) Novel plant SUN-KASH bridges are involved in RanGAP anchoring and nuclear shape determination. Journal of Cell Biology 196:203-211.
• Meier I (2012) mRNA Export and Sumoylation - Lessons from Plants. BBA Gene Regulatory Mechanisms, in press.
• Xu XM, Zhao Q, Rodrigo-Peiris T, Brkljacic J, He CS, Müller S, Meier I. (2008) RanGAP1 is a continuous marker of the Arabidopsis cell division plane. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 105:18637-42.
• Xu XM, Meulia T, Meier I. (2007) Anchorage of plant RanGAP to the nuclear envelope involves novel nuclear-pore-associated proteins. Curr Biol. 17:1157-63.
• Xu XM, Rose A, Muthuswamy S, Jeong SY, Venkatakrishnan S, Zhao Q, Meier I. (2007) NUCLEAR PORE ANCHOR, the Arabidopsis homolog of Tpr/Mlp1/Mlp2/megator, is involved in mRNA export and SUMO homeostasis and affects diverse aspects of plant development. Plant Cell. 19:1537-48.

Publication at PubMed