Kenneth Allen Taylor, Ph.D.

CURRICULUM VITAE

Institute of Molecular Biophysics
KLB202
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306-4380
(850) 644-3357

taylor@bio.fsu.edu

EDUCATION AND DEGREES

High School	Paul Dorman HS Spartenburg, S.C.	1965
Undergraduate	N.C. State Univ.	1969 B.S. Textile Chemistry 1969 B.S. Chemistry
Graduate	N.C. State Univ. U. Cal., Berkeley	1971 M.S. Chemistry 1975 Ph.D. Biophysics

Masters Supervisor
Prof. L. H. Bowen(deceased)
Department of Chemistry
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC

Ph.D. Supervisor
Prof. Robert M. Glaeser
Donner Laboratory
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720

FELLOWSHIPS

1976-78 Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research Postdoctoral Fellowship
1978-79 NATO Postdoctoral Fellowship
1979-80 Muscular Dystrophy Association Postdoctoral ellowship
1981 Burroughs Wellcome Fund Travel Fellowship
1984-89 Established Investigator of the American Heart Association

ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH POSITIONS

Postdoctoral

1975-1976 Donner Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, CA
1976-1980 Medical Research Council Lab. of Mol. Biol., Cambridge, England

Post-doctoral Supervisors

Prof. Robert M. Glaeser
Donner Laboratory Rosenstiel Center
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720
Dr. Hugh E. Huxley
Brandeis University
Waltham, MA 02254

Faculty

7/1980-9/1984 Research Assist. Prof., Duke Univ. Med. Center, Dept. of Anatomy
10/1984-7/1995 Research Assoc. Prof., Duke Univ. Med. Center, Anatomy/Cell Bio.
8/1995-present Professor, Dept. of Biological Science, Florida State Univ.

PROFESSIONAL HONORS & BIOGRAPHICAL LISTINGS

1994 NIH James A. Shannon Directors Award, 9/1/94 - 8/31/96
2002 FSU Distinguished Research Professor
2006 FSU Donald L. D. Caspar Professor of Biological Science

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES, OFFICES

Phi Kappa Phi
Biophysical Society
Sigma Xi (Assoc. Member)
Microscopy Society of America
American Society for Cell Biology

SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS COMMONLY ATTENDED

Biophysical Society
American Society for Cell Biology
Gordon Research Conferences

REFEREE ACTIVITIES

NIH/NSF Consultant Appointments:

January 25-27, 1983, NHLBI Special Study Section. Peter M. Spooner, Exec. Sec.
October 15-18, 1986, Biophysical Chemistry (BBCB) study section, ad hoc member. John Wolff, Exec. Sec.
March 10, 1987, NIH Special Study Section. Harish C. Chopra, Exec. Sec.
July 1-2, 1987, NIH DRR-BRS Special Study Section on electron microscopy. Eileen C. Raizen, Exec. Sec.
April 17-19, 1988, NIH Special Study Section. Harish C. Chopra, Exec. Sec.
May 25, 1988, NIH Special Study Section. Patricia C. Jost, Exec. Sec.
March 29-31, 1989, NIH Special Study Section. David Chananie, Exec. Sec.
November 15-17, 1989, NIH Special Study Section. Harish C. Chopra, Exec. Sec.
January 4-6, 1990, Member of the NSF-NATO Postdoctoral Fellowship Panel. Michael M. Frodyma, Program Director.
May 11-12, 1990, NIH Special Study Section. Robert M. Chasson, Exec. Sec.
June 5, 1991, NIH Special Study Section. Harish C. Chopra, Exec. Sec.
November 24-26, 1991, NIH Special Study Section. Robert M. Chasson, Exec. Sec.
January 9-11, 1992, Member of the NSF-NATO Postdoctoral Fellowship Panel. Michael M. Frodyma, Program Director.
June 11-13, 1992, Biophysical Chemistry Study Section (BBCB). John Beisler, SRA. Ad Hoc member.
April 14-16, 1993, NIH Special Study Section. Harish C. Chopra, SRA.
February 17, 1994, NIH Special Study Section. Nancy Lamontagne, SRA.
March 15-17, 1994, NIH Special Study Section. Eilene Bradley, SRA
June 18-20, 1995, NIH Special Study Section. Harish C. Chopra, SRA.
June 14, 1996, NIH Special Study Section. Harish C. Chopra, SRA.
March 19, 1998, NIH Special Study Section (chairperson). Anthony Carter, SRA.
June 2-3, 1998, NIH CBY-1, Ad Hoc member, Gerald Greenhouse, SRA.
November 23, 1998, NIH Special Study Section. Arnold Revzin, SRA.
October 21, 22, 1999. BBCB Study Section Ad Hoc member.
March 9-11, 2000. NIH Special Study Section (ZRG1-SSS-1(02).
March 27, 2000. NIH Special Study Section (ZRG1-SSS-1 04S).
August 11, 2000. NIH Special Study Section (ZRG 1 SSS-I 06S).
November 29, 2000. NIH Special Study Section.
June 22, 2001. NIH Special Study Section (ZRG 1 SSS-U 03).
December 13, 2001. NIH Special Study Section ZAR1 RJB-B (J1).
February 15, 2002. NIH Special Study Section. (ZRG1 SSS-U 01 1) Addison, R. CSR.
July 14, 2003. NIH Special Study Section (SSS-B) Donald Schneider, SRA.
October 25-26, 2003. BBCB Study Section Ad Hoc member. Arnold Revzin, SRA.
November 11, 2003. NIH Special Study Section. Richard Rodewald, SRA.
April 22-23, 2004. NIH Special Study Section. Richard Rodewald, SRA.
October 3-5, 2004 NIH Special Study Section. Marc Rigas, SRA.
November 29, 2004. NIH Special Study Section. Richard Rodewald, SRA.
March 31, 2005. NIH Special Study Section. Donald Schneider, SRA.
October 6, 2005. NIH CSF Study Section, Alexandra Ainsztein, SRA.
November 21-22, 2005. NIH MI Study Section, Ross Shonat, SRA.
January 26, 2006. NIH Special Study Section High End S10s, Alexandra Ainsztein, SRA.
February 3, 2006. NIH ICI Study Section, Raya Mandler, SRA.
April 2-4, 2006. NIH Special Study Section Boulder P41 facility, Jonathan A. Arias, SRA.
July 11, 2006. NIH MI Study Section, Ross Shonat, SRA.
October 10-11, 2006 NIH CSF Study Section, Alexandra Ainsztein, SRA.
February 15, 2007 NIH BBM Study Section, Nuria Assa-Munt, SRA.
July 1, 2007 Appointed permanent member of MI Study Section through June 2011. Three meetings/year (October, February & June), Ross Shonat, SRA
October 2, 2007 NIH MI Study Section, Ross Shonat, SRA.
November 8-10, 2007 NIH Special Study Section, Ping Fan, SRA
June 4-5, 2008, NIH Special Study Section CB-J , Jonathan Arias, SRA

Ad Hoc Grant Review:

BBSRC (U.K)
National Science Foundation (U.S.A.)
Natural Science and Engineering Research Council (Canada)
System-X Program (Switzerland)
Wellcome Trust (U.K.)

Manuscript Review:

Biophysical Journal
Cell
European Journal of Histochemistry
Journal of Cell Biology
Journal of Colloid and Interface Science
Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry
Journal of Microscopy
Journal of Molecular Biology
Journal of Muscle Research and Cell Motility
Journal of Structural Biology
Lipids
Nature
Nature Structural Biology
Science
Structure
Ultramicroscopy
Trends in Biochemical Science
Nature Protocols

SUMMER AND SABBATICAL ACTIVITIES

Summers since coming to FSU have been spent on sponsored research.
Sabbatical leave August 2002 through June 2003 at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, CA at the laboratory of Prof. Charles Brooks III.

EDITORIAL BOARDS

Journal of Structural Biology, July 1, 1990 to present.

GRADUATE STUDENTS AND POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATES

Graduate Students

Jinghua Tang (1995-2000) Ph.D.
Assistant Project Scientist (under Prof. Timothy Baker)
Dept. Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCSD
4107 Natural Sciences Bldg., MC-0378
La Jolla, CA 92093

Debbie Kelly (1999-2003) Ph.D.
Dept. Cell Biology
Harvard Medical School
240 Longwood Ave.
Boston, MA 02115

Yunxun Wang (2000-2001) Ph.D. Transferred to Mathematics in August, 2001

Dongyan Tan (2004) Ph.D. Transferred to Albert Einstein COM, 2004

Shenping Wu (2004-2007) Ph.D.

Fung Ye (2002-2005) Ph.D.
Department of Medicine, UCSD
Leichtag Building Room 149-M
9500 Gilman Drive, Mail Code 0726
La Jolla, CA 92093-0726

Cheri Hampton (2002-2006) Ph.D.
Institute of Molecular Biophysics
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306-4380

Former Postdoctoral Associates

Dr. Ming Hsiu-Ho
Affymetrix Inc
3380 Central Expressway
Santa Clara, CA 95051

Dr. Holger Schmitz
Thomas-Mann-Str. 17
51429 Bergisch Gladbach
Germany
phone: +49 2204 984442
HSchm5@freenet.de

Dr. Manoj Misra
Unilever Research & Development
40 Merritt Blvd.
Trumbull, CT 06611-5413
manoj.misra@unilever.com

Dr. Sandor Varga, Prof. of Biophysics
Medical and Health Science Center
Clinical Research Center
Laboratory of Electron Microscopy
University Medical School
P.O. Box 40
Debrecen 4012, Hungary
varga@jaguar.dote.hu

Dr. Yifan Cheng
Dept. of Biochemistry & Biophysics
University of California San Francisco
Genentech Hall Room S312B
600 16th Street
San Francisco, CA 94158-2517
ycheng@biochem.ucsf.edu

Dr. Lifan Chen
(Senior Principal Engineer)
Western Digital Corporation
44100 Osgood Rd.
Fremont, CA 94539
lfchen02@yahoo.com

Dr. Thomas Wendt
Projektleiter Lernlabor - Explo-Heidelberg
Im Neuenheimer Feld 582 C
69120 Heidelberg, Germany
Tel.: 06221 421404
Fax: 06221 421410
www.explo-heidelberg.de/aktion/lernlabor
wendt@explo-heidelberg.de

Dr. Lijian Zhang (Associate Professor)
Institute of Image Processing and Pattern Recognition
Shanghai Jiaotong University
1954 Huashan Rd
Shanghai 200030
P. R. China

Dr. Xiang-Qi Mu
Dept. of Physiology and Biophysics
Boston University School of Medicine
715 Albany St. W302
Boston, MA 02215
xqm1@bu.edu

Dr. Jun Liu
Lab of Cell Biology
NIH NCI/CCR
50 South Drive Rm 4306 MSC 8008
Bethesda MD 20892-8008
liujun@mail.nih.gov

Dr. Fung Ye
Department of Medicine, UCSD
Leichtag Building Room 149-M
9500 Gilman Drive, Mail Code 0726
La Jolla, CA 92093-0726
feye@ucsd.edu

Present Postdoctoral Associates

Dr. Bruce A. J. Baumann
Inst. of Molecular Biophysics
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306-4380

Dr. Quiqing Hu
Inst. of Molecular Biophysics
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306-4380

Dr. Zhong Huang
Institute of Molecular Biophysics
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306-4380

Dr. Hanspeter Winkler
Inst. of Molecular Biophysics
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306-4380

Dr. Cheri Hampton
Institute of Molecular Biophysics
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306-4380

HONORS & UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH STUDENTS

American Cancer Society James A. Fisher Summer Research Fellows

1999 Huong (Cindy) Li
2005 Glen Robinson

Young Scholars Program

1997 John Li
1999 Nicole Barnette & Alex Sankin

COURSES PREVIOUSLY TAUGHT AT FSU AND ELSEWHERE

Lecturer, EMBO Course on Image Processing, Basel Switzerland, 1976
Duke University Medical Center
Cell & Tissue Biology (CBI200) Microanatomy (CBI201)
Florida State University
Histology (ZOO4753C/BMS5110C)
Histology Seminar (BSC5905)
3D Electron Microscopy of Macromolecules (PCB5936)
Electron Protein Crystallography (BSC5932)
Senior Tutorial (BSC4931)
Seminar in Muscle Biochemistry (PCB6936)
Biological Science I Laboratory (BSC2010L)
Directed Individual Study (BSC4905, MOB5905, BSC5905)
Supervised Teaching (BSC5945)
Supervised Research (MOB5915)
Dissertation Defense (MOB8985)
Dissertation (MOB6980)

SERVICE

A. Departmental

1997

Biological Science Executive Committee
Area representative to Biology Graduate Policy Council/Committee
Faculty Director of the Biological Science Imaging Resource (since 8/7/97)
Research Sponsor for Florida State University Young Scholars Program, student John Li.

1998

Biological Science Executive Committee
PIMS Faculty Search Committee
Area representative to Biology Graduate Policy Council/Committee
Faculty Director of the Biological Science Imaging Resource

1999

Biological Science Executive Committee
PIMS Faculty Search Committee
Area representative to Biology Graduate Policy Council/Committee
Faculty Director of the Biological Science Imaging Resource
PEP Committee
Research Sponsor for Florida State University Young Scholars Program, students Alex Sankin and Nichole Barnette

2000

Faculty Director of the Biological Science Imaging Resource
PIMS Faculty Search Committee
Area representative to Biology Graduate Policy Council/Committee
Chair Search Committee
Faculty Evaluation Committee
Eppes Endowed Chair in X-ray Crystallography Search Committee
Elections committee

2001

Faculty Director of the Biological Science Imaging Resource
Area representative to Biology Graduate Policy Council/Committee
Eppes Endowed Chair in X-ray Crystallography Search Committee
Elections committee

2002

Faculty Director of the Biological Science Imaging Resource

2003

Faculty Director of the Biological Science Imaging Resource

2004

Faculty Director of the Biological Science Imaging Resource

2005

Faculty Director of the Biological Science Imaging Resource
Faculty CMB search committee

2006

Faculty Director of the Biological Science Imaging Resource
Faculty CMB search committee
Ph.D. Student Committees

Steve Kazmierski (Biology/Tom Keller III/graduated 08/00)
Sabeeha Muneer (Biology/Tom Keller III/withdrew)
Richard Chi (Biology/Tom Keller III)
Lawrence LeClair (Biology/Tom Roberts/graduated 08/02)
John W. Colson (MOB/Kurt Hofer/withdrew)
Smita Bhatia (MOB/Michael Chapman/graduated 12/03)
Weishu Bu (MOB/Michael Chapman)
Dustin McCraw (MOB/Michael Chapman)
Jason O'Donnell (MOB/Michael Chapman)
Ken Sale (Biology/Piotr Fajer/graduated 04/02)
Likai Song (Biology/Piotr Fajer/graduated 12/05)
Xiao Zhang (Biology/Piotr Fajer)
Bruce Baumann (MOB/Piotr Fajer/graduated 04/03)
Jason Robotham (Biology/Ken Roux/graduated 04/06)
Henry Grise (Biology/Ken Roux)
De Yu Liu (Chemistry & Biochemistry/Alan Marshal)
Mariya Kozytska (Chemistry & Biochemistry/Gregory Dudley)
David M. Jones (Chemistry & Biochemistry/Gregory Dudley)
Aya Kataoka (MOB/Bryant Chase)
Brenda Schoffstall Harrison (MOB/Bryant Chase)
Nancy Meyer (MOB/Bryant Chase)
Bo Liang (MOB/Hong Li)

M.S. Student Committees

Paul Schmid (Chemistry, Amy Sang/withdrew)
Paul Griffin (Biology, Tom Roberts/withdrew)
Ann Imber (Biology, Betty Gaffney/graduated 04/06)

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Committee

Benjamin Katz (Biology, Betty Gaffney, 10/06)

2007

Faculty Director of the Biological Science Imaging Resource

B. Institute of Molecular Biophysics & Molecular Biophysics Program

1996

Executive Committee of the Institute of Molecular Biophysics
Curriculum committee of the Research Training Group in Structural Biology of Macromolecular Assemblies

1997

Executive Committee of the Institute of Molecular Biophysics
Curriculum Committee of the Research Training Group in Structural Biology of Macromolecular Assemblies
Kasha Award Committee for best Graduate Student Paper
Computer Purchase committee of the RTG

1998

Executive Committee of the Institute of Molecular Biophysics
Organizer for the 3rd Biannual Structural Biology Symposium, 1999

1999

Executive Committee of the Institute of Molecular Biophysics
Organizer for the 3rd Biannual Structural Biology Symposium, 1999

2000

Executive Committee of the Institute of Molecular Biophysics

2001

Executive Committee of the Institute of Molecular Biophysics
Structural Biology/Biochemistry Seminar Committee
MOB Committee

2002

Executive Committee of the Institute of Molecular Biophysics
Structural Biology/Biochemistry Seminar Committee
MOB Committee

2006

IMB Faculty search committee
IMB Director search committee

2007

Non-tenure track faculty promotion committee
IMB-Chem&Biochem faculty search committee
IMB Non-tenure Track Faculty Promotion Committee

C. University

2004

Developing Scholar Evaluation Committee for the College of Arts and Sciences

D. National and International

1986

Member of the Program and Nominations Committee for Annual Meeting of the EMSA (now the Microscopy Society of America)

2001

Vice Chairman, Gordon Conference on 3-D Electron Microscopy of Macromolecules, Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI
Program Committee for 2nd International Congress on Electron Tomography, Royal Netherlands Academy of Science, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October 17-20, 2001

2003

Chairman, Gordon Conference on 3-D Electron Microscopy of Macromolecules, June 22-27, Colby-Sawyer College, New London, NH

2004

Program Committee for 3rd International Congress on Electron Tomography, The Rensselaerville Institute, Rensselaerville, NY, USA.

2006

Program Committee for the 3-D Electron Microscopy of Macromolecules Gordon Research Conference, Electron Tomography Session chair

2007

Symposium organizer at the Microscopy and Microanalysis annual meeting in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. Symposium entitled Muscle and Motility .

OTHER CREATIVE RESOURCES

Web Based Publications

Cheri M. Hampton & Kenneth A. Taylor. α-actinin-2. AfCS-Nature Molecule Pages (2006). (doi:10.1038/mp.a000195.01)
Cheri M. Hampton & Kenneth A. Taylor. α-actinin-3. AfCS-Nature Molecule Pages (2006). (doi:10.1038/mp.a000196.01)
Cheri M. Hampton & Kenneth A. Taylor. α-actinin-4. AfCS-Nature Molecule Pages (2006). (doi:10.1038/mp.a000197.01)

SCIENTIFIC (PROFESSIONAL) PRESENTATIONS

A. Invited Seminars

1976

Duke University Medical Center, Dept. of Anatomy. Lecture title: Electron microscopy of frozen hydrated biological specimens. Host J. David Robertson

1979

Duke University Medical Center, Dept. of Anatomy. Lecture title: A reexamination of the structure of muscle thin filaments decorated with myosin subfragment 1. May 15. Host J. David Robertson

1981

Univ. of Calif. San Francisco, Dept. of Biochem. and Biophys. Lecture title: (same as Biophysical Society presentation of that year)

1985

Univ. of Miami, Dept. of Pharmacology. Lecture title: Crossbridge structures from 3-dimensional reconstructions of insect flight muscle and decorated actin. March 28, 1985. Host Jim Potter.

1988

East Carolina University, Dept. of Biochemistry. April 12, 1988. Host Joe Chalovich

1989

Univ. of Virginia, Dept. of Biology. December 15, 1989. Host Andrew Somlyo

1991

Florida State University, Structural Biology Program December 10, 1991

1992

University of Virginia, Dept. of Physiology October 29, 1992. Host Robert Kretsinger.

1993

North Carolina State University, Dept. of Microbiology. December 16. Myosin crossbridge and alpha-actinin structure in muscle determined by 3-D electron microscopy. John MacKenzie host.
University of North Carolina, Triangle Motility Club. November 17. Structure of alpha-actinin by electron microscopy of 2-D crystals formed on lipid monolayers.
Univ. Missouri-Kansas City, Dept. of Biochemistry. November 29. Myosin crossbridge and alpha-actinin structure in muscle determined by 3-D electron microscopy. Host George Thomas
Florida State University, Structural Biology Program. November 8. Myosin crossbridge and alpha-actinin structure in muscle determined by 3-D electron microscopy. Lee Makowski host.

1994

La Jolla Cancer Research Foundation. April 25. 3-D electron microscopy of muscle crossbridges and muscle proteins. Host Kay Ely

1995

Florida State University, Structural Biology Program. November 8. 3-D Electron microscopy of muscle & muscle proteins: current status and future prospects.

1996

University of Mississippi Medical Center, Dept. of Biochemistry. March 14. Lecture title: 3-D electron microscopy of muscle: correlation of crossbridge structure with mechanical state. Host: Mona Norcum.

1997

Biozentrum der Universitt Basel. March 14. Lecture title: Electron tomography of muscle: the varied structure of myosin crossbridges with bound nucleotide in situ. Host Ueli Aebi.
Institute of Physics, Beijing University
EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany. March 12. Lecture title: Electron tomography of muscle: the varied structure of myosin crossbridges with bound nucleotide in situ

1998

NIAMSD, NIH, Bethesda, MD. June 5, Lecture title: Structure of myosin crossbridges in diverse functional states of insect flight muscle. Host Leepo Yu.

1999

University of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Physiology. April 12. Lecture title: 3-D structure of active crossbridges in insect flight muscle frozen in time during isometric contraction . Host Yale Goldman.
University of Vermont, Dept. of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics. April 5. Lecture title: Cross-bridges in contracting indirect flight muscles fast frozen during isometric contraction. Host Kathy Trybus.
University of Texas Southwest Medical Center, Department of Pathology. May 5. Lecture title: 3-D structure of active crossbridges in insect flight muscle frozen in time during isometric contraction. Host: James Stoops.

2000

Boston Biomedical Research Institute. April 19. Lecture title: 3-D structure of active crossbridges in insect flight muscle frozen in time during isometric contraction. Roberto Dominguez - host.
Florida State University, Dept. of Chemical Engineering. April 7. Lecture title: 3-D Electron Microscopy A bridge between light microscopy and X-ray crystallography
University of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Physiology. August 17. Joint seminar with Prof. Sir Andrew Huxley, FRS on Structural insights in contracting muscle. Host Yale Goldman.
Florida State University, Dept. of Biological Science. October 19. Lecture title: Hybrid crystallography--building models of macromolecular assemblies by combining 3-D electron microscopy with X-ray crystallography

2001

Burnham Institute. August 10. Lecture title: How bugs fly and smooth muscles relax. Electron cryomicroscopy reveals novel conformations of myosin in activated and relaxed muscle. Dorit Hanein - host

2002

Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Oregon State University. May 3. Lecture title: The structure of alpha-actinin: a molecule with a complex structure and a complex function.. Jeff Greenwood - host.
Department of Biology, San Diego State University, October 24. Lecture title: How bugs fly. Time resolved 3-D electron microscopy reveals novel conformations of myosin in actively contracting muscle. Host Sanford Bernstein.

2003

Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, La Jolla, CA. January 17. Motoring Along with Myosin. Host Charles L. Brooks III
San Diego Actin Club, March 5. The structural basis of myosin ATPase regulation in smooth muscle. Host Tama Hasson
AMI Forum, Scripps Research Institute, April 10. The Mechanism of ATPase Inhibition in Smooth Muscle Myosin. Host Clint Potter.
Florida State University, Dept. of Biological Science. September 25. Lecture title: A walk on the theoretical side: Building a model for the active to inactive transition in smooth muscle myosin.
University of Vermont College of Medicine, Dept. of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, November 14. Lecture given at their departmental retreat. Lecture title: A walk on the theoretical side: Building a model for the active to inactive transition in smooth muscle myosin. Host David Warshaw.

2004

University of Central Florida. February 20. Lipid monolayers: a powerful method for 2-D crystallization and assembly of proteins and their complexes for cryoelectron microscopy. Host Andrew Winningham.
National Institute of Arthritis, Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, NIH, Bethesda, MD. A walk on the theoretical side: Building a model for the active to inactive transition in smooth muscle myosin. Host James Sellers.

2005

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Program in Molecular and Cellular Biophysics, March 8, 2005. The structure of inhibited states of myosin determined using cryoEM and molecular modeling. Host Jack Griffith.
University of Vermont College of Medicine, Workshop on single particle imaging, August 12, 2005. Single particle 3-D imaging with 3-D single particle images from tomograms. Host Michael Rademacher

2006

New York University Medical School, Skirball Institute, March 31. Common themes in the problem of turning myosin motors off. Host David Stokes
Wadsworth Center for Labs and Research, Albany, NY, April 20, 21. Common themes in the problem of turning myosin motors off,. & Current efforts toward molecular electron tomography. Host Bruce McEwen
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, May 11. Common themes in the problem of turning myosin motors off. Host Hernando Sosa.
FEI, Eindoven, The Netherlands. June 19. Cryoelectron tomography of proteins and viruses. Host John Caola

2007

Biological Science Colloquium, Florida State University. April 12, 2007. "Electron tomography a powerful new tool to directly visualize molecular structures and their dynamics". Host Ken Roux.

B. Invited Conference Lectures:
International

1976

6th European Congress on Electron Microscopy, Jerusalem. Lecture title: Frozen hydrated biological specimens for electron microscopy and structure analysis.

1983

Gordon Conference on Muscle. Lecture title: Structure of the calcium ATPase crystals in SR.

1984

Gordon Conference on Muscle. Lecture title: Crossbridge structures as determined from 3D reconstructions of insect flight muscle and of decorated actin
FASEB Summer Conference on Calcium and Cell Function. Lecture title: Structure of the Ca⁺⁺-ATPase of sarcoplasmic reticulum

1985

Gordon Conference on Three-Dimensional Electron Microscopy of Macromolecules. Lecture title: Reconstructions of muscle filaments from thin sections

1988

10th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Heart Research. Lecture title: Three dimensional structure of Ca⁺⁺-ATPase determined by electron microscopy
Gordon Conference on Excitation-Contraction Coupling. Lecture title: The structure and interactions of Ca⁺⁺-ATPase

1993

Gordon Conference on 3D Electron Microscopy of Macromolecules. Lecture title: Structure of alpha-actinin determined from 2-D crystals formed on lipid monolayers

1994

Molecular Mechanism of Muscle Contraction. Christ's College, Cambridge, UK. Lecture Title: Structure of alpha-actinin by electron microscopy of 2-D crystals formed on lipid monolayers.

1997

EMBO Electron Tomography Workshop. Lecture title: The use of electron tomography for structural analysis of disordered protein arrays..
Gordon Conference on 3DEM of Macromolecules. Lecture title: Extracting single particle information from tomograms.
Beijing Conference & Exhibition on Instrumental Analysis. Lecture title: 3-D electron microscopy of cytoskeletal proteins & contracting muscle.

1998

Symposium on Electron crystallography of Biological Macromolecules. Lake Tahoe, CA. December 9-12. Lecture title: Structural studies of paracrystalline arrays of muscle proteins.
International Institute of Advanced Research Symposium 98, Seika, Kyoto, Japan, November 9 - 10, 1998. Structural studies of paracrystalline arrays of muscle proteins.

2001

Gordon Conference on 3DEM of Macromolecules, June 24-29. Insights into the mechanism of muscle contraction obtained using electron tomography.
5th International Muscle Energetics Conference July 14-17, Burlington, VT. 3-D crossbridge motifs from insect flight muscle in defined static states as well as active contraction.
Tomography Colloquium at Royal Netherlands Academy of Science, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October 17-19. Evaluating the results of correspondence analysis and real space refinement applied to electron tomograms of insect flight muscle..
Workshop on Actin filaments, from structure to mechanism. held at SPring-8, Japan from November 16th to 18th, 2001

2002

K. A. Taylor The application of lipid monolayers for the study of the cytoskeleton. 15th International Congress on Electron Microscopy. Durban, South Africa. Sept. 1-6, 2002.

National

1982

American Society of Biological Chemists annual meeting. Lecture title: The structure of the acto-S1 complex and its relationship to energy transduction

1985

Biophysical Discussions. Lecture title: Three-dimensional structure of insect flight muscle from tilted thin sections

1986

New York Academy of Sciences Conference on Recent Advances in Electron and Light Imaging in Biology and Medicine. Lecture title: Image analysis of the Ca⁺⁺-ATPase from sarcoplasmic reticulum
Electron Microscopy of America meeting. Lecture title: Three-dimensional reconstructions from single oblique sections of rigor insect flight muscle

1993

Microscopy Society of America annual meeting. Lecture title: Oblique section reconstruction from thin sectioned biological specimens
American Society of Cell Biologist annual meeting. Lecture title: 3-D electron microscopy of muscle and muscle proteins

1995

Microscopy Society of America annual meeting, August 13-17 in Kansas City, MO. Lecture title: Oblique section reconstruction from thin sectioned biological specimens
American Society of Cell Biologist annual meeting. Lecture title: 3-D electron microscopy of muscle and muscle proteins

1996

Microscopy Society of America annual meeting, August 11-15 in Minneapolis, MN. Lecture title: Tomography of paracrystalline specimens.

2001

Microscopy Society of America annual Meeting in Long Beach, CA, August 5-9. Lecture title: Electron tomography of insect flight muscle in isometric contraction and rigor states.

2003

Microscopy Society of America annual Meeting, August 3-7 in San Antonio, TX. Lecture title: Classification and molecular modeling of crossbridge conformations from tomograms of insect flight muscle.

2005

Biophysical Society annual Meeting, February 12-16 in Long Beach, CA. Workshop talk on Classification of variable 3-D structure motifs in tomograms of insect flight muscle.. Workshop organized by Niels Volkmann.
American Society for Cell Biology, annual meeting, San Francisco, CA. Workshop talk on 3-D imaging of actin-based motors using electron tomography.. Workshop organized by Prof. J. Richard McIntosh.

2007

Workshop on Advanced Topics in EM Structure Determination, Nov. 10-15, at the National Resource for Automated Molecular Microscopy, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA. Lecture title: Molecular Tomography; Extracting Molecular Structures from Electron Tomograms.

Regional/State/Local

1985

Southeastern Developmental Biology Conference, Beaufort, NC. May 6-7.

1986

New York Academy of Sciences Conference on Recent Advances in Electron and Light Imaging in Biology and Medicine. Lecture title: Image analysis of the Ca⁺⁺-ATPase from sarcoplasmic reticulum

1997

2nd Biannual Structural Biology Symposium, FSU. Lecture title: In situ structure of myosin crossbridges with nucleotide bound.

1999

3rd Biannual Structural Biology Symposium, FSU, January 8-9, Tallahassee, FL. 2-D protein crystals on lipid monolayers.
Florida Society for Microscopy, Orlando, FL, March 15, 1999. Applications of a 300 keV, field emission electron microscope in structural biology.
North Carolina Society for Electron Microscopy and Microanalysis, Wilmington, NC, October 30, 1999. Application of a 300 keV field emission electron microscope to structural biology.

C. Radio/TV Interviews:

January 7, 1999 TV station WTLH, news interview on the dedication of the high resolution cryo electron microscope in the Structural Biology program.
January 8, 1999 National Public Radio, WFSU, interview on the role of high resolution cryo electron microscopy in Structural Biology.
January 9, 1999 TV station WCTV, news interview on the CryoEM symposium

D. Miscellaneous Information

2000 Host for sabbatical visitor Dr. Gernot Beinbrecht, University of Muenster, Germany
2006 Our publication with Prof. Ken Roux on the structure of the HIV envelope glycoprotein spikes generated many new stories due to its timing with the 25 anniversary of the discovery of the AIDS virus. The following are the URLs to those Web based press releases.

Physorg.com
Medical News Today - the largest independent health and medical news website on the Internet.
Lexis-Nexis
AllAfrica.com : A web based summary of African news.
eMaxHealth.com : a medical news website.
NewKerala.com : an on-line newspaper heavily weighted to commercial adds.
All Headline News Corp. : a leading provider of news, weather, and other content for web sites, wireless, digital signage, interactive applications, broadcast and print use.
IndyStar.com : an on-line version of the Indianopolis Star Newspaper
Daily Times : a Pakistan news publication
Chinese Television Web Site
Medindia.com
The Tallahassee Democrat

PUBLICATIONS:

Refereed journals:

From Masters thesis

L. H. Bowen, K. A. Taylor, H. K. Chin & G. G. Long. Massbauer effect in complexes of antimony trihalides with aromatic compounds. J. Inorg. Nucl. Chem. 36, 101-105 (1974).

From Ph.D. thesis

K. A. Taylor & R. M. Glaeser. Hydrophilic support films of controlled thickness and composition. Rev. Sci. Instrum. 44, 1546-1547 (1973).
K. A. Taylor & R. M. Glaeser. Electron diffraction of frozen hydrated protein crystals. Science 186, 1036-1037 (1974).
K. A. Taylor & R. M. Glaeser. A modified airlock door for the introduction of frozen specimens into the JEM 100B electron microscope. Rev. Sci. Instrum. 46, 985-986 (1975).
K. A. Taylor & R. M. Glaeser. Electron microscopy of frozen hydrated biological specimens. J. Ultrastruct. Res. 55, 448-456 (1976).
K. A. Taylor. Structure determination of frozen hydrated, crystalline biological specimens. J. Microscopy 112, 115-125 (1978).
R. M. Glaeser & K. A. Taylor. Radiation damage relative to transmission electron microscopy of biological specimens at low temperature: a review. J. Microscopy 112, 127-138 (1978).

From Postdoctoral period (MRC-LMB, Cambridge, UK)

J. M. Scholey, K. A. Taylor & J. Kendrick-Jones. Regulation of nonmuscle myosin assembly by calmodulin-dependent light chain kinase. Nature 287, 233-235 (1980).
K. A. Taylor & L. A. Amos. A new model for the geometry of the binding of myosin crossbridges to muscle thin filaments. J. Mol. Biol. 147, 297-324 (1981).
K. A. Taylor, J. F. Deatherage & L. A. Amos. Structure of the S-layer of Sulfolobus acidocaldarius. Nature 299, 840-842 (1982).
L. A. Amos, H. E. Huxley, K. C. Holmes, R. S. Goody & K. A. Taylor. Structural evidence that myosin heads may interact with two sites on F-actin. Nature 299, 467-469 (1982).
J. F. Deatherage, K. A. Taylor & L. A. Amos. Three dimensional structure of the cell wall of Sulfolobus acidocaldarius. J. Mol. Biol. 167, 823-848. (1983).
K. A. Taylor, R. Milligan, C. Raeburn & P. N. T. Unwin. A cold stage for the Philips EM 300 Electron Microscope. Ultramicroscopy 13, 185-190 (1984).

While at Duke University Medical Center

K. A. Taylor, L. Dux & A. Martonosi. Structure of the vanadate induced crystals of sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+ ATPase. J. Mol. Biol. 174, 193-204 (1984).
K. A. Taylor & J. D. Robertson. Analysis of the 3-dimensional structure of the urinary bladder epithelial cell membrane. J. Ultrastructure Res. 87, 23-30 (1984).
K. A. Taylor, M. C. Reedy, L. Cordova & M. K. Reedy. 3-D structure of insect flight muscle in rigor from tilted thin sections. Nature 310, 285-291 (1984).
L. Dux, K. A. Taylor, H. P. Ting-Beall, & A. Martonosi. Crystallization of the Ca⁺⁺-ATPase of sarcoplasmic reticulum by calcium and lanthanide ions. J. Biol. Chem. 260, 11730-11743 (1985).
K. A. Taylor, L. Dux & A. Martonosi. The three-dimensional reconstruction of negatively stained crystals of the Ca transport ATPase from sarcoplasmic reticulum. J. Mol. Biol. 187(3), 417-427 (1986).
K. A. Taylor, M. C. Reedy, L. Cordova & M. K. Reedy. Image reconstruction using electron micrographs of insect flight muscle: use of thick transverse sections to supplement data from tilted thin longitudinal sections. Biophys. J. 49, 353-364 (1986).
K. A. Taylor, N. Mullner, S. Pikula, L. Dux, C. Peracchia, S. Varga & A. Martonosi. Electron microscope observations on Ca2+-ATP microcrystals in detergent-solubilized sarcoplasmic reticulum. J. Biol. Chem. 263, 5287-5294 (1988).
K. A. Taylor, M. C. Reedy, L. Córdova & M. K. Reedy. Three-dimensional image reconstruction of insect flight muscle. 1. The rigor myac layer. J. Cell Biol. 109, 1085-1102 (1989).
K. A. Taylor, M. C. Reedy, L. Córdova & M. K. Reedy. Three-dimensional image reconstruction of insect flight muscle. 2. The rigor actin layer. J. Cell Biol. 109, 1103-1123 (1989).
M. Misra, D. Taylor, T. Oliver & K. Taylor. Effect of organic anions on the crystallization of the Ca2+-ATPase of muscle sarcoplasmic reticulum. Biochim. Biophys. Acta. 1077, 107-118 (1991).
M. Misra, H. C. Beall, K. A. Taylor & H. P. Ting-Beall. Configuration of subunits within crystals of Na, K-ATPase maintained in frozen hydrated state. J. Struct. Biol. 105, 67-74 (1991).
B. L. Gabriel, K. Taylor, C. E. Creutz & R. H. Kretsinger. Microcrystals of the annexin, p68. Paracrystal to crystal transition and molecular packing as determined by electron microscopy and image reconstruction. J. Struct. Biol. 107, 29-37 (1991).
K. A. Taylor & R. A. Crowther. A protocol for 3-D image reconstruction from a single image of an oblique section. Ultramicroscopy 38, 85-103 (1991).
S. Varga, K. Taylor & A. Martonosi. Effects of solutes on the formation of crystalline sheets of the Ca2+-ATPase in detergent-solubilized sarcoplasmic reticulum. Biochim. Biophys. Acta. 1070, 374-386 (1991).
K. A. Taylor & R. A. Crowther. 3-D Reconstruction from the Fourier transform of a single super lattice image of an oblique section. Ultramicroscopy 41, 153-167 (1992).
K. A. Taylor & D. W. Taylor. Formation of 2-D paracrystals of F-actin on phospholipid layers mixed with quaternary ammonium surfactants. J. Struct. Biol. 108(2), 140-147 (1992).
W. O. Wilkison, R. M. Bell, K. A. Taylor & M. J. Costello. Structural characterization of ordered arrays of the sn-glycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferase from E. coli. J. Bacteriology 174, 6608-6616 (1992).
K. A. Taylor & D. W. Taylor. Projection image of smooth muscle alpha-actinin from 2-D crystals formed on positively charged lipid layers. J. Mol. Biol. 230(1), 196-205 (1993).
K. A. Taylor, M. C. Reedy, M. K. Reedy & R. A. Crowther. Crossbridges in the complete unit cell of rigor insect flight muscle imaged by 3-D reconstruction from oblique sections. J. Mol. Biol. 233(1), 86-108 (1993).
K. A. Taylor & S. Varga. Similarity of 3-D microcrystals of detergent solubilized (Na+,K+)-ATPase from pig kidney and Ca2+-ATPase from skeletal muscle sarcoplasmic reticulum. J. Biol. Chem. 269, 10107-10111 (1994).
H. Schmitz, C. Lucaveche, M. K. Reedy & K. A. Taylor. Oblique section 3-D reconstruction of relaxed insect flight muscle reveals the crossbridge lattice in helical registration. Biophys. J. 67, 1620-1633 (1994).
H. Winkler & K. A. Taylor. 3D reconstruction by combining data from sections cut oblique to different unit cell axes. Ultramicroscopy 55, 357-371 (1994).
K. A. Taylor & D. W. Taylor.Formation of 2-D complexes of F-actin and crosslinking proteins on lipid monolayers: demonstration of unipolar alpha-actinin-F-actin crosslinking. Biophys. J. 67, 1976-1983 (1994)
H. P. Erickson, D. W. Taylor, K. A. Taylor & D. Bramhill. Bacterial cell division protein FtsZ assembles into protofilament sheets and minirings; structural homologs of tubulin polymers. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA. 93(1), 519-523 (1996)
H. Winkler and K. A. Taylor. Software for 3-D reconstruction from images of oblique sections through 3-D crystals. J. Struct. Biol. 116(1), 241-247 (1996).
H. Winkler and K. A. Taylor Three-dimensional distortion correction applied to tomographic reconstructions of sectioned crystals. Ultramicroscopy 63(2), 125-132 (1996).
Holger Schmitz, Mary C. Reedy, Michael K. Reedy, Richard T. Tregear, Hanspeter Winkler, Kenneth A. Taylor. Electron tomography of Insect Flight Muscle in Rigor and AMPPNP at 23^oC. J. Mol. Biol. 264(2), 279-301 (1996)
Hanspeter Winkler, Mary C. Reedy, Michael K. Reedy, Richard Tregear and Kenneth A. Taylor. 3-D structure of nucleotide bearing crossbridges in situ: oblique section reconstruction of insect flight muscle in AMPPNP at 23^oC. J. Mol. Biol. 264(2), 302-322 (1996).

While at Florida State University

H. Schmitz, M. C. Reedy, M. K. Reedy, R. T. Tregear, and K. A. Taylor. Tomographic 3-D Reconstruction of Insect Flight Muscle Partially Relaxed by AMPPNP and Ethylene Glycol. J. Cell Biol. 139(3), 695-707 (1997).
Kenneth A. Taylor, Jinghua Tang, Yifan Cheng & Hanspeter Winkler. The use of electron tomography for structural analysis of disordered protein arrays. J. Struct. Biol. 120(3), 372-386 (1997).
Yifan Cheng & Kenneth A. Taylor. Characterization of the low magnification performance of a Philips CM300-FEG. Ultramicroscopy 74(4), 209-220 (1998).
Hanspeter Winkler & Kenneth A. Taylor. Multivariate statistical analysis of three-dimensional cross-bridge motifs in insect flight muscle. Ultramicroscopy 77(3), 141-152 (1999).
Kenneth A. Taylor and Dianne W. Taylor. Structural Studies of Cytoskeletal Protein Arrays Formed on Lipid Monolayers. J. Struct. Biol. 128(1), 75-81 (1999).
Kenneth A. Taylor, Holger Schmitz, Mary C. Reedy, Yale E. Goldman, Clara Franzini-Armstrong, Hiro Sasaki, Richard T. Tregear, Kate Poole, Carmen Lucaveche, Robert J. Edwards, Li Fan Chen, Hanspeter Winkler, and Michael K. Reedy. Tomographic 3-D reconstruction of quick frozen, Ca2+-activated contracting insect flight muscle. Cell 99(4), 421-431 (1999).
Thomas Wendt, Dianne Taylor, Kathy Trybus, Terri Messier and Kenneth A. Taylor. Visualization of head-head interactions in the inhibited state of smooth muscle myosin. J. Cell Biol. 147(7), 1385-1390 (1999).
Kenneth A. Taylor, Dianne W. Taylor and Fred Schachat. α-Actinin isoforms from cardiac, smooth and skeletal muscle form polar arrays of actin filaments. J. Cell Biol. 149(3), 635-646 (2000).
Thomas Wendt, Dianne Taylor, Kathleen M. Trybus, and Kenneth Taylor. 3-D image reconstruction of dephosphorylated smooth muscle heavy meromyosin reveals asymmetry in the interaction between myosin heads and placement of subfragment 2. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 98(8), 4361-4366 (2001).
Li Fan Chen, Eric Blanc, Michael S. Chapman and Kenneth A. Taylor. Real space refinement of acto-myosin structures from sectioned muscle. J. Struct. Biol. 133(2), 221-232 (2001).
Tang, Jinghua, Taylor, Dianne W. Taylor, Kenneth A. Taylor. The 3-D structure of alpha-actinin obtained by cryoelectron microscopy suggests a model for Ca2+ dependent actin binding. J. Mol. Biol. 310(4), 845-858 (2001).
Pascual-Montano, A., Taylor, K.A., Winkler, H., Pascual-Marqui, R.D., Carazo, J.M. Quantitative self organizing maps for clustering electron tomograms. J. Struct. Biol. 138(2), 114-122 (2002).
Chen, Li Fan, Winkler, Hanspeter, Reedy, Michael K., Reedy, Mary C. & Taylor, Kenneth A. Molecular modeling of averaged rigor crossbridges from tomograms of insect flight muscle. J. Struct. Biol. 138(2), 92-104 (2002).
Jun Liu, Thomas Wendt, Dianne W. Taylor & Kenneth A. Taylor. Refined model of the 10S conformation of smooth muscle myosin by cryoEM 3-D image reconstruction. J. Mol. Biol. 329(5), 963-972 (2003).
Hanspeter Winkler and Kenneth A. Taylor. Focus gradient correction applied to tilt series image data used in electron tomography. J. Struct. Biol. 143(1), 24-32 (2003). doi:10.1016/S1047-8477(03)00120-5
Ping Zhu, Elena Chertova, Julian Bess, Jr., Jeffrey D. Lifson, Larry O. Arthur, Jun Liu, Kenneth A. Taylor, and Kenneth H. Roux. Electron tomography analysis of envelope glycoprotein trimers on HIV and simian immunodeficiency virus virions. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 100(26), 15812-15817 (2003).
Jun Liu, Dianne W. Taylor and Kenneth A. Taylor. A 3-D reconstruction of smooth muscle alpha-actinin by cryoEM reveals two different conformations at the actin binding region. J. Mol. Biol. 338(1), 115-125 (2004).
Richard Tregear, Kenneth A. Taylor, Hanspeter Winkler, Mary Reedy, Yale Goldman, Clara Franzini-Armstrong, Hiro Sasaki, Carmen Lucaveche and Michael Reedy. Number and orientation of crossbridges in target zones of active insect flight muscle. Biophys. J. 86, 3009-3019 (2004).
Jun Liu, Mary C. Reedy, Yale E. Goldman, Clara Franzini-Armstrong, Hiroyuki Sasaki, Richard T. Tregear, Carmen Lucaveche, Hanspeter Winkler, Bruce A. J. Baumann, John M. Squire, Thomas C. Irving, Michael K. Reedy, and Kenneth A. Taylor. Electron tomography of fast frozen, stretched rigor fibers reveals elastic distortions in the myosin crossbridges. J. Struct. Biol. 147(3), 268-282 (2004).
Florence Tama, Michael Feig, Jun Liu, Charles L. Brooks III and Kenneth A. Taylor. The requirement for mechanical coupling between head and S2 domains in smooth muscle myosin ATPase regulation and its implications for dimeric motor function. J. Mol. Biol. 345(4), 837-854 (2005).
Deborah F. Kelly and Kenneth A. Taylor. Identification of the α1-integrin binding site on α-actinin by cryo-electron microscopy. J. Struct. Biol. 149(3), 290-302 (2005).
Hanspeter Winkler and Kenneth A. Taylor. Accurate marker-free alignment with simultaneous geometry determination and reconstruction of tilt series in electron tomography. Ultramicroscopy, 106(6), 240-254 (2006).
Deborah F. Kelly, Dianne W. Taylor, Constantina Bakolitsa, Andrey A. Bobkov, Laurie Bankston, Robert C. Liddington and Kenneth A Taylor. Structure of the α-actinin-vinculin head domain complex determined by cryo-electron microscopy J. Mol. Biol., 357(2), 562-573 (2006).
Ping Zhu, Jun Liu, Julian Bess Jr., Elena Chertova, Jeffrey D. Lifson, Henry Gris, Gilad Ofek, Kenneth A. Taylor, and Kenneth H. Roux. Distribution and three-dimensional structure of AIDS virus envelope spikes. Nature 441, 847-852 (2006).
Jun Liu, Dianne W. Taylor, Elena Krementsova, Kathy Trybus & Kenneth A. Taylor. 3-D structure of the myosin V inhibited state by cryoelectron tomography. Nature 442, 208-211 (2006).
Jun Liu, Shenping Wu, Mary C. Reedy, Hanspeter Winkler, Carmen Lucaveche, Yifan Cheng, Michael K. Reedy, and Kenneth A. Taylor. Electron tomography of swollen rigor fibers of insect flight muscle reveals a short and variably angled S2 domain. J. Mol. Biol. 362, 844-860 (2006).
Cheri M Hampton, Dianne W Taylor, Kenneth A Taylor. Novel structures for α-actinin: F-actin interactions and their implications for actin-membrane attachment and tension sensing in the cytoskeleton. J. Mol. Biol. 368, 92-104 (2007) http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmb.2007.01.071
Dianne W. Taylor, Deborah F. Kelly, Anchi Cheng and Kenneth A Taylor. On the freezing of lipid monolayer specimens for cryoelectron microscopy. J. Struct. Biol., 160(3), 305-312 (2007) http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsb.2007.04.011.
Wei Dai, Qingmei Jia, Eric Bortz, Sanket Shah, Jun Liu, Ivo Atanasov, Kenneth A. Taylor, Ren Sun & Z. Hong Zhou. Unique Structures in a tumor herpesvirus revealed by cryo-electron tomography and microscopy. J. Struct. Biol.161, 428-438 (2008)
Feng Ye, Jun Liu, Hanspeter Winkler and Kenneth A. Taylor. Integrin α IIbΒ3 in a membrane environment remains the same height after Mn⁺⁺ activation when observed by cryo-electron tomography. J. Mol. Biol., (in press, 2008).

Non-refereed publications:

J. M. Scholey, K. A. Taylor & J. Kendrick-Jones. The role of myosin light chains in regulating action-myosin interaction. Biochemie 63, 255-271 (1981).
A. N. Martonosi, L. Dux, C. Peracchia & K. A. Taylor. The crystallization of Ca⁺⁺ transport ATPase in sarcoplasmic reticulum. Symposia Biologica Hungarica 26, 133-151 (1984).
K. A. Taylor & R. A. Crowther. Three dimensional reconstructions from single oblique sections of rigor insect flight muscle. Proc. 44 Ann. Meet. of EMSA, pp. 30-33 (1986).
K. A. Taylor, M.-H. Ho & A. Martonosi. Image analysis of the Ca2+-ATPase from sarcoplasmic reticulum. Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 403, 31-43 (1987).
A. N. Martonosi, L. Dux, K. A. Taylor, D. Csermely, N. Mullner, S. Pikula, S. Papp, S. Varga, I. Iona & T. Keresztes. The Ca⁺⁺ pump of skeletal muscle sarcoplasmic reticulum. Acta Biochemica et Biophysica Hungarica 22, 263-276 (1987).
K. H. Roux, K. A. Taylor and P. Zhu. Cryoelectron tomography shows 3D structure of surface spikes: Structure of AIDS virus surface revealed. BIOforum Europe. 07-08, 32-33 (2006).
Kenneth A. Taylor. Regulation and recycling of myosin V. Curr. Opin. Cell Biol. 19(1), 67-74 (2007).
Kenneth H. Roux & Kenneth A. Taylor. HIV envelope structure and organization. Curr. Opin. Struct. Biol. 17, 244-252 (2007).
Hanspeter Winkler, Jun Liu, Kenneth A. Taylor, Ping Zhu, Kenneth H. Roux. Electron tomography of macromolecular assemblies. In: Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, pg 240-243 (2007).

Chapters in books: From Masters thesis

L. H. Bowen, K. A. Taylor, H. Z. Dokuzoguz & H. H. Stadelmaier. Properties of Na21Sn2B6 as Source for Sn119 and Sb121 Mossbauer experiments. In Mossbauer Effect Methodology, vol. 7. I. J. Gruverman, ed. pp. 233-244, Plenum Press, New York (1971).

From Ph.D. dissertation

R. M. Glaeser, W. Chiu, D. Grano & K. Taylor. Morphological Model of the Surface-Layer Array in Spirillum serpens. In: Electron Microscopy at Molecular Dimensions: State of the Art and Strategies for the Future (W. Baumeister and W. Vogell, eds.) Springer-Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg-New York, pp. 22-26 (1980).

From postdoctoral training

J. Kendrick-Jones, K. A. Taylor & J. M. Scholey. Phosphorylation of nonmuscle myosin and stabilization of thick filament structure. Methods in Enzymology 85, 364-370 (1982).
J. Kendrick-Jones, P. Tooth, K. A. Taylor & J. M. Scholey. Regulation of myosin filament assembly by light chain phosphorylation. Cold Sp. Harb. Symp. Quant. Biol. XLVI 929-938 (1981).
K. A. Taylor & L. A. Amos. Structure of actin in reconstructed images of S-1 decorated filaments. In: Actin: Its Structure and Function in Muscle and Nonmuscle Cells (dos Remedios, C. and Bardon J. eds), Academic Press, Sydney (1982).

From academic career

A. Martonosi, K. A. Taylor, G. Kratke, L. Dux & C. Peracchia. The Regulation of the Ca⁺⁺ transport activity of sarcoplasmic reticulum. In: Regulation and Development of Membrane Transport Processes, John Wiley and Sons. pp. 58-85 (1984). James E. Graves, Editor.
A. Martonosi, L. Dux, K. A. Taylor, H. P. Ting-Beall, S. Varga, P. Csermely, N. Mullner, S. Papp & I. Jona. The structure of Ca-ATPase in sarcoplasmic reticulum. In: Proteins of Excitable Membranes, B. Hille and D.M. Fambrough, eds., John Wiley and Sons, New York, pp. 257-286 (1987).
A. Martonosi, S. Varga, K. A. Taylor, H. P. Ting-Beall & L. Dux. The molecular structure of sarcoplasmic reticulum. Electron Microscopy of Proteins, Vol. 6: Membraneous Structures. J.R. Harris ed. Academic Press (London), pp. 255-375 (1987).
A. Martonosi, S. Varga, K. A. Taylor & M.-H. Ho. The structure of the Ca⁺⁺ transport ATPase of sarcoplasmic reticulum. In: Perspectives in Biological Energy Transduction. Yasno Mukohata et al., eds. Academic Press. pp. 127-138 (1987).
A. N. Martonosi, L. Dux, K. A. Taylor & S. Pikula. The Ca⁺⁺ pump of skeletal muscle sarcoplasmic reticulum. In: The Ion Pumps: Structure, Function and Regulation. W.D. Stein, ed., Alan R. Liss, Inc., New York, pp. 7-14 (1988).
K. A. Taylor, L. Dux, S. Varga, H. P. Ting-Beall & A. Martonosi. Analysis of two dimensional crystals of Ca⁺⁺-ATPase in sarcoplasmic reticulum. Methods in Enzymology, 157, 271-288 (1988).
M. C. Reedy, M. K. Reedy & K. A. Taylor. Crossbridge patterns in defined static states in insect flight muscle. Topics in Mol. Struct. Biol. 13, 151-170 (1990).
R. A. Crowther, P. K. Luther & K. A. Taylor. Computation of a three dimensional image of a periodic specimen from a single view of an oblique section. Electron Microsc. Rev. 3, 29-42 (1990).
K. A. Taylor, J. Liu & H. Winkler. Localization and classification of repetitive structures in electron tomograms of paracrystalline assemblies. In: Electron Tomography: Methods for Three-dimensional Visualization of Structures in the Cell, 2nd edition, Joachim Frank, Ed. Springer-Verlag. pp 417-439 (2006).
K. A. Taylor, S. Wu, M. C. Reedy & M. K. Reedy. Imaging actomyosin in situ. In: Methods in Cell Biology: Cellular Electron Microscopy. J. Richard McIntosh, Editor. Academic Press, San Diego, CA. pp 321-368 (2007).