Biography

As an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan in 1975, John Pringle studied the cytoplasmic events of the cell cycle (cytoskeletal organization, cell polarization and bud formation, mechanisms of cytokinesis), work that continued after his move to the University of North Carolina in 1991, and to Stanford in 2005; several people in Pringle's lab still work on these issues. In 2004 Pringle also began a study of the cell and molecular biology of the dinoflagellate-cnidarian symbiosis, motivated by the incredibly interesting biology, the almost complete lack of attention to it by molecular and cell biologists, and the hope of helping to save the world's coral reefs. Most of the lab now works on this project.