Claire Walczak
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Indiana University
Publications
238
Citations
9,375
Est. group size
—
Recurring co-author estimate
Active years
33
Publishing since 1993
Claire Walczak studies how cells divide, focusing on the molecular machinery that organizes and moves chromosomes during mitosis (cell division). Much of the work examines microtubules—tiny protein filaments that form the cell's internal scaffolding—and the motor proteins (such as kinesins) that regulate their length and dynamics. This research also connects to cancer biology, including how dividing tumor cells depend on specific motor proteins.
Publication activity peaked around 2018–2019 and has since slowed to a lower, roughly steady output of about two to three papers per year.
Generated by claude-opus-4-8 from public bibliographic data · Jul 11, 2026
- Faculty Opinions recommendation of Chromosomally unstable tumor cells specifically require KIF18A for proliferation.
Faculty Opinions – Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature · 2021
- Switch-1 Instability at the Active Site Decouples ATP Hydrolysis from Force Generation in Myosin II
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2020
- Esperanto for histones: CENP-A, not CenH3, is the centromeric histone H3 variant
UNC Libraries · 2020
- Switch‐1 instability at the active site decouples <scp>ATP</scp> hydrolysis from force generation in myosin <scp>II</scp>
Cytoskeleton · 2020
- Faculty Opinions recommendation of Off-target toxicity is a common mechanism of action of cancer drugs undergoing clinical trials.
Faculty Opinions – Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature · 2019
- Cell Division: Tailoring a Swiftly Scaling Spindle
Current Biology · 2019
- Emerging Insights into the Function of Kinesin-8 Proteins in Microtubule Length Regulation
Preprints.org · 2018
- Emerging Insights into the Function of Kinesin-8 Proteins in Microtubule Length Regulation
Biomolecules · 2018
- Faculty Opinions recommendation of Publish houses of brick, not mansions of straw.
Faculty Opinions – Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature · 2017
- Faculty Opinions recommendation of Spatial organization of the Ran pathway by microtubules in mitosis.
Faculty Opinions – Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature · 2016
- Faculty Opinions recommendation of Divergent microtubule assembly rates after short- versus long-term loss of end-modulating kinesins.
Faculty Opinions – Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature · 2016
- Spatial regulation of astral microtubule dynamics by Kif18B in PtK cells
Molecular Biology of the Cell · 2016
- Faculty Opinions – Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature×8
- bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)×7
- Molecular Biology of the Cell×6
- Bulletin of the American Physical Society×3
- The Journal of Cell Biology×2
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Last updated Jul 11, 2026.
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