Richard Cyr All publications ( 21 ) Waters JR. Van Meter P. Perrotti W. Drogo S. Cyr RJ. Cat dissection vs. sculpting human structures in clay: an analysis of two approaches to undergraduate human anatomy laboratory education. 2005 Mar. Adv Physiol Educ. 29(1):27-34. Marcus AI. Dixit R. Cyr RJ. Narrowing of the preprophase microtubule band is not required for cell division plane determination in cultured plant cells. 2005 Dec. Protoplasma. 226(3-4):169-74. Marcus AI. Li W. Ma H. Cyr RJ. A kinesin mutant with an atypical bipolar spindle undergoes normal mitosis. 2003 Apr. Mol Biol Cell. 14(4):1717-26. Chen C. Marcus A. Li W. Hu Y. Calzada JP. Grossniklaus U. Cyr RJ. Ma H. The Arabidopsis ATK1 gene is required for spindle morphogenesis in male meiosis. 2002 May. Development. 129(10):2401-9. Marcus AI. Ambrose JC. Blickley L. Hancock WO. Cyr RJ. Arabidopsis thaliana protein, ATK1, is a minus-end directed kinesin that exhibits non-processive movement. 2002 Jul. Cell Motil Cytoskeleton. 52(3):144-50. Dixit R. Cyr RJ. Spatio-temporal relationship between nuclear-envelope breakdown and preprophase band disappearance in cultured tobacco cells. 2002 Feb. Protoplasma. 219(1-2):116-21. Marcus AI. Moore RC. Cyr RJ. The role of microtubules in guard cell function. 2001 Jan. Plant Physiol. 125(1):387-95. Granger CL. Cyr RJ. Spatiotemporal relationships between growth and microtubule orientation as revealed in living root cells of Arabidopsis thaliana transformed with green-fluorescent-protein gene construct GFP-MBD. 2001. Protoplasma. 216(3-4):201-14. Fisher DD. Cyr RJ. Mechanical forces in plant growth and development. 2000 Jun. Gravit Space Biol Bull. 13(2):67-73. Granger CL. Cyr RJ. Microtubule reorganization in tobacco BY-2 cells stably expressing GFP-MBD. 2000 Feb. Planta. 210(3):502-9. Moore RC. Cyr RJ. Association between elongation factor-1alpha and microtubules in vivo is domain dependent and conditional. 2000 Apr. Cell Motil Cytoskeleton. 45(4):279-92. Fisher DD. Cyr RJ. Extending the Microtubule/Microfibril paradigm. Cellulose synthesis is required for normal cortical microtubule alignment in elongating cells 1998 Mar. Plant Physiol. 116(3):1043-51. Moore RC. Durso NA. Cyr RJ. Elongation factor-1alpha stabilizes microtubules in a calcium/calmodulin-dependent manner. 1998. Cell Motil Cytoskeleton. 41(2):168-80. Moore RC. Zhang M. Cassimeris L. Cyr RJ. In vitro assembled plant microtubules exhibit a high state of dynamic instability. 1997. Cell Motil Cytoskeleton. 38(3):278-86. Fisher DD. Gilroy S. Cyr RJ. Evidence for Opposing Effects of Calmodulin on Cortical Microtubules. 1996 Nov. Plant Physiol. 112(3):1079-1087. Wymer CL. Wymer SA. Cosgrove DJ. Cyr RJ. Plant cell growth responds to external forces and the response requires intact microtubules. 1996 Feb. Plant Physiol. 110(2):425-30. National Aeronautics and Space Agency Wymer CL. Fisher DD. Moore RC. Cyr RJ. Elucidating the mechanism of cortical microtubule reorientation in plant cells. 1996. Cell Motil Cytoskeleton. 35(2):162-73. Cyr RJ. Palevitz BA. Organization of cortical microtubules in plant cells. 1995 Feb. Curr Opin Cell Biol. 7(1):65-71. Durso NA. Cyr RJ. A calmodulin-sensitive interaction between microtubules and a higher plant homolog of elongation factor-1 alpha. 1994 Jun. Plant Cell. 6(6):893-905. Cyr RJ. Microtubules in plant morphogenesis: role of the cortical array. 1994. Annu Rev Cell Biol. 10:153-80. Fisher DD. Cyr RJ. Calcium Levels Affect the Ability to Immunolocalize Calmodulin to Cortical Microtubules. 1993 Oct. Plant Physiol. 103(2):543-551.