Department of Biological Sciences
A Wonderful Faculty Member
Stanley Cohn
Associate Professor
B.S. California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
Ph.D. University of Colorado (Boulder)
Research Interests
Cell Motility
Diatoms (Ecology, Movement, Morphogenesis)
Microtubules and Mitosis
O'Connel Room 250
Phone: 773-325-7597
FAX: 773-325-7596
e-mail: scohn@condor.depaul.edu


Courses Taught
Bio 103 - General Biology III
Bio 110 - Topics in Life Sciences
Bio 250 - Cell Biology
Bio 390/450 - Problems in Cell Biology-Cell Motility
Representative Publications

Cohn, S.A., Tippit, D.H. and Spurck, T.P. (1986). Microtubule dynamics in the spindle. II. A thermodynamic and kinetic description. J. Theoret. Biol. 122: 277-301.

Cohn, S.A., Ingold, A.L. and Scholey, J.M. (1987). Correlation between the ATPase and microtubule translocating activities of sea urchin egg kinesin. Nature 328: 160-163.

Cohn, S.A., Nash, J. and Pickett-Heaps, J.D. (1989). The effect of drugs on diatom valve morphogenesis. Protoplasma 149: 130-143.

Cohn, S.A., Saxton, W.M., Lye, R.J., and Scholey, J.M. (1993). Chapter 5: Analyzing Microtubule Motors in Real Time. In Meth. Cell. Biol. Vol .39 [J.M. Scholey Ed.], Academic Press, NY, Pp 75-88.

Cohn, S.A. and Disparti, N.C. (1994). Environmental factors influencing diatom cell motility. J. Phycol. 30: 818-828.

Cohn, S.A. and Weitzell, R.E. Jr. (1996). Ecological Considerations of Diatom Cell Motility. I. Characterization of motility and adhesion in four diatom species. J. Phycol. 32: 928-939.


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