bdwillms@illinois.edu
B615 CLSL
Office: (217) 244-9650
Lab: (217) 333-9166
Fax: (217) 244-1648
Mail to: Department of Cell and Developmental Biology
University of Illinois
B107 CLSL
MC-123
601 S. Goodwin Avenue
Urbana, IL 61801
Benjamin D Williams
Associate Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
Research Topics
Cell-Matrix Interactions, Regulation of Gene Expression
Education
Sc.B., Brown University (Biology)
Ph.D., Yale University (Biology)
Postdoc., Washington University School of Medicine
Software for Medical Education
My interests have changed from basic cell and developmental biology to the design and implementation of educational software, with a particular emphasis on medical education. This new direction is an outgrowth of my role as the director of medical histology at the college of medicine.
Representative Publications
Rogalski, T.M., Williams, B.D., Mullen, G.P., and Moerman, D.G. 1993. Products of the unc-52 gene in Caenorhabditis elegans are homologous to the core protein of the mammalian basement membrane heparan sulfate proteoglycan. Genes & Dev., 7:1471–84. [Abstract]
Williams, B.D. and Waterston, R.H. 1994. Genes critical for muscle development and function in Caenorhabditis elegans identified through lethal mutations. J. Cell Biol., 124:475–90. [Abstract]
Hresko, M.C., Williams, B.D., and Waterston, R.H. 1994. Assembly of body wall muscle and muscle cell attachment structures in Caenorhabditis elegans. J. Cell Biol., 124:491–506. [Abstract]
Rogalski, T.M., Mullen, G.P., Gilbert, M.M., Williams, B.D., and Moerman, D.G. 2000. The unc-112 gene in Caenorhabditis elegans encodes a novel component of cell-matrix adhesion structures required for integrin localization in the muscle cell membrane. J. Cell Biol. 150:253–64. [Abstract]
Mackinnon, A.C., Qadota, H., Norman, K.R., Moerman, D.G., and Williams, B.D. 2002. C. elegans PAT-4/ILK functions as an adaptor protein within integrin adhesion complexes. Curr. Biol., 12:787–97. [Abstract]
Lin, X., Qadota, H., Moerman, D.G., and Williams, B.D. 2003. C. elegans PAT-6/actopaxin plays a critical role in the assembly of integrin adhesion complexes in vivo. Curr. Biol., 13:922–32. [Abstract]