Thomas Schilling, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Department of Developmental and Cell Biology

University of California, Irvine

4109 Natural Sciences II

• E-Mail: tschilli@uci.edu FAX: (949) 824-4709

Education and professional experience:

My initial interest in neuroscience and developmental biology began as an undergraduate at Davidson where I received a B.S. in Biology.

I pursued neuroscience as a Ph.D. student with Dr. R. Glenn Northcutt working on the comparative neuroanatomy of the visual system in teleost fishes. I became more interested in development and the zebrafish system, transferred to U. Oregon and received an M.S. in Neurobiology at U. Michigan.

My Ph.D. work with Dr. Charles B. Kimmel focused on development of the early zebrafish embryo, particularly the cellular and genetic mechanisms that control neural crest cell development, particularly the cells that form the head skeleton and peripheral nervous system.

As a postdoctoral fellow in England with Dr. Philip W. Ingham I continued to pursue a genetic analysis of neural crest development in zebrafish including large-scale screening for skeletal mutants in collaboration with Dr. Christianne Nusslein-Volhard in Tubingen, Germany, and studies of the role of vertebrate relatives of the Drosophila segment polarity gene hedgehog in zebrafish development.

At UC London I started my laboratory as part of the zebrafish group in the Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology together with Drs. Nigel Holder and Steve Wilson.

Pew Scholar (2001 — present)

NIH RO1 Grant Recipient (2001 - present)

March of Dimes Grant Recipient (2001 - present)

Career Development Fellow of the Wellcome Trust (1998 — 2002)

Postdoctoral Fellow of the Human Frontiers Research Program (1995-1998)

Postdoctoral Fellow of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (1994-1995)

Recipient NIH Genetics Training Grant (1992 — 1994)