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Rossie Clark-Cotton
Postdoctoral Scholar, Genetics
Teaching Assistant, Stanford Center for Health EducationCurrent Research and Scholarly InterestsThe best-known model of cytokinesis is the "purse-string" model, which proposes that a contractile actomyosin ring provides the force necessary to divide a cell. Recent work has revealed that many eukaryotes perform cytokinesis without an actomyosin structure. As a postdoctoral fellow, I investigate actomyosin-independent mechanisms of cytokinesis using the alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii as a model.