Mike Henne UT Southwestern, USA

Dr. Henne is currently an Assistant Professor of Cell Biology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. He received his B.S. in Cellular and Molecular Biology from Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, and then accepted a MRC Scholarship from the UK to pursue graduate studies at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology at Cambridge University. As a student in the lab of Harvey McMahon, Ph.D., he studied how membrane sculpting BAR and F-BAR domain-containing proteins promote clathrin-mediated endocytosis. He characterized the F-BAR proteins FCHo1/2, and showed that they play crucial roles initiating clathrin vesicle biogenesis.Following graduate school, Dr. Henne began a postdoctoral position in the laboratory of Scott Emr, Ph.D., at Cornell University as a Sam and Nancy Fleming Research Fellow. There, he continued to study endolysosomal trafficking, and how endosomes can be reshaped by the ESCRT (Endosomal Sorting Complexes Required for Transport) pathway. In his own lab he studies how cells spatially organize lipid metabolism at sites of organelle-organelle contact, and in particular how they regulate the production and breakdown of lipid droplets in response to various cellular stresses.

Lab Website: http://www.utsouthwestern.edu/labs/henne/