Coburn, Michelle D.

Paula Estrada de Martin is a senior associate in the firm's Intellectual Property Department. She joined the firm in 2005. Dr. Estrada de Martin's practice focuses on US and foreign patent prosecution for life science, biotechnology and plant fields, patent portfolio management, patentability assessment, non-infringement and invalidity opinions, due diligence, pre-suit investigation and litigation support for life sciences and plant matters.

Practice

Prior to joining the firm, Dr. Estrada de Martin was a post-doctoral Fellow in the Department of Ophthalmology at Weill Medical College of Cornell University, where she investigated the sorting and targeting of apical membrane proteins in RPE and MDCK cells in the laboratory of Dr. Enrique Rodriguez-Boulan. In the summer of 1997, she interned at the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. From 1998 to 2004, she served as a teaching assistant at Yale University while pursuing her graduate studies. Dr. Estrada de Martin's technical skills encompass genetics, biochemistry, molecular biology, physiology, and cell biology. The author and co-author of several publications, she has also presented posters at scientific meetings and conferences.

Professional Activities

• American Society for Cell Biology
• New York Academy of Sciences

Publications

• Sarkozi, P., M. Katz, V. Metsch, L. Coppola, P. Estrada de Martin, B. Moldovsky, and D. Wiig. Individual Practices of the Justices of the New York State Commercial Division, Commercial and Federal Litigation Section (2009).
• De Craene, J.O., J. Coleman, P. Estrada de Martin, M. Pypaert, S. Anderson, J.R. Yates 3rd, S. Ferro-Novick and P. Novick,  "Rtn1p is involved in structuring the cortical endoplasmic reticulum,"  Mol Biol Cell  17(7):3009-20 (2006).
• Estrada de Martin, P. J., P. Novick and S. Ferro-Novick, "The Organization, Structure, and Inheritance of the ER in Higher and Lower Eukaryotes," Biochemistry and Cell Biology83(6):752-761 (2005).
• Estrada de Martin, P., Y. Du, P. Novick and S. Ferro-Novick, "Ice2p is important for the distribution and structure of the cortical ER network in Saccharomyces cerevisiae," J Cell Sci 118: 65-77 (2005).
• Estrada de Martin, P., "Cortical ER Inheritance and Maintenance in the Budding Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae," Doctoral Dissertation (2004).
• Estrada, P., J. Kim, J. Coleman, L. Walker, B. Dunn, P. Takizawa, P. Novick and S. Ferro-Novick, "Myo4p and She3p are required for cortical ER inheritance in Saccharomyces cerevisiae," J Cell Biol 163: 1255-1266 (2003).
• Flannary, P., P. DiBello, P. Estrada and H. Dohlman, "Functional Analysis of Plp1 and Plp2, two phosducin homologues in yeast," J Biol Chem 275(24):18462-9 (2000).
• Estrada, P., "The effect of triiodothyronine on GLUT4 protein expression in skeletal muscle and adipose tissue of obese-diabetic (db/db) mice," Master of Science Thesis (1997).

Community Involvement

As a graduate student at Yale University, Dr. Estrada de Martin was elected to the Graduate and Professional Student Senate and served as a departmental representative to the Yale Graduate Student Assembly. She also co-founded the Graduate Association of Latino(a)-American Students at Yale.