The following GGR laboratories are interested in developmental genetics
Michael Atchison
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Control of Gene Expression, development, and oncogenesis. |
Gerd Blobel
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hematopoiesis, gene expression, transcription factors, chromatin |
Douglas Epstein
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Regulation of Sonic hedgehog signaling in development and disease |
Joshua R. Friedman
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Liver development, biliary disease |
Thomas Jongens
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Modeling Fragile X Mental Retardation in Drosophila; Germ Cell Specification |
| Eric Moss |
Developmental timing, microRNA function, post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression, developmental genetics of C. elegans. |
| John Murray |
Combinatorial control of transcription and cell fate specification, C. elegans development, cellular resolution live imaging |
Kazuko Nishikura
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RNA metabolism/processing. RNA editing, RNAi mechanism, apoptosis, cell cycle regulation. |
Nancy Spinner
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Human Genetics, Notch signaling in human disease, Alagille syndrome, human disease gene identifcation by mapping deletions. |
Eileen M. Shore
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Genetic diseases of bone formation and development; Molecular and cell biology of bone formation and osteoblast differentiation; Transcriptional activation and regulation of bone morphogenetic protein and GNAS1 target genes. |
Doris Stoffers
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Transcription factors and signal transduction; Embryonic development and adult regeneration of the endocrine pancreas; Relationship of defects in these pathways to the pathophysiology of diabetes mellitus, a disease caused by a deficiency in the production or action of insulin. |
Meera Sundaram
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Regulation and targets of Ras/ERK signaling in C. elegans |
Doris Wagner
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Molecular mechanisms controling developmental transitions in response to environmental and endogenous cues. |
Mitchell Weiss
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Developmental Hematopoiesis concentrating on red blood cell and megakaryocyte lineages. |
Kenneth Zaret
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Mammalian gene regulation, cell differentiation, chromatin structure. |
| Jumin Zhou |
Mechanism of epigenetic inheritance, long-range transcription activation, insulator and anti-insulators. |
| Zhaolan (Joe) Zhou |
Epigenetic Control of Experience-dependent Gene Expression in Brain Development and Disease |
Other CAMB laboratories (with research related to GGR) interested in developmental genetics.
| Greg Bashaw |
Signaling mechanisms that function during attractive and repulsive axon guidance. |
| E. Bryan Crenshaw |
Analysis of the role of developmental regulatory factors during mouse embryogenesis. |
| Steve DiNardo |
Stem Cell Function; developmental patterning. |
| Jonathan Epstein |
Transcriptional regulation of cardiac development and function using mouse models. |
| Amin Ghabrial |
How cells make and shape tubular organs |
| Michael Granato |
Axonal guidance and motor behavior regulation in the zebrafish. |
| Greg Guild |
Shaping Drosophila cells with the actin cytoskeleton. |
| Olena Jacenko |
Molecular mechanisms of skeletal development and blood cell differentiation. |
| Brian Keith |
How cells and tissues adapt to oxygen deprivation (hypoxia) by modifying gene expression. |
| Catherine Lee May |
Transcriptional regulation of pancreas and gastrointestinal development and function using mouse models. |
| Sarah Millar |
Intercellular signals regulating the development of hair follicles, teeth and mammary glands and postnatal hair growth. |
| Ed Morrisey |
Lung development, cardiac development, vascular development, Wnt signaling, regulation of gene transcription, GATA factors, forkhead factors. |
| Mary Mullins |
BMP signal transduction; molecular mechanisms of cell specification establishment of the vertebrate body plan via maternal control mechanisms. |
| Michael Pack |
Genetic analysis of vertebrate digestive organ development using the zebrafish. |
| Micahel Parmacek |
Transcriptional programs that regulate cardiovascular development. |
| Scott Poethig |
Regulation of developmental timing and organ polarity in plants. |
| Richard Schultz |
Egg activation and gene expression in mouse embryos. |
| Celeste Simon |
Hematopoiesis, angiogenesis, tumorigenesis, and cellular responses to oxygen deprivation. |
| Ben Stanger |
Organogenesis, Stem Cells, Pancreatic Cancer, Regulation of Organ Size. |
| Eric Weinberg |
Pattern formation, neural development, ear development in the zebrafish embryo. |
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