Stem Cell Biology

Faculty Members Involved:

• Scott Atwood – Cell fate decisions in skin cancer, skin and hair follicle development, and stem cells.
• Bruce Blumberg – Nuclear receptor and growth factor signaling
• Olivier Cinquin – Systems biology of cell differentiation
• Dae Seok Eom – cellular and molecular mechanisms of long-range intercellular communication
• Arthur Lander – Morphogenesis and pattern formation, proteoglycans, birth defects syndromes
• Michael Parsons – Development and regeneration of insulin-producing β cells
• Sha Sun – Long noncoding RNAs in epigenetic programming, mammalian X chromosome inactivation (XCI) as a model to investigate the specificity of lncRNAs
• Katherine Thompson-Peer – Investigating how neurons respond , cellular mechanisms of dendrite regeneration after injury and recover after injury

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Research Areas

• Cancer Cell Biology
• Developmental Genetics
• Environmental Toxicology
• Molecular Signaling
• Neurobiology
• Organelle Biology
• Stem Cell Biology
• Systems Biology