Dr. Digman’s Proposal/Project Title: CAREER: 3D Multimodal Tracking of Mitochondria During Tumor Cell Invasion Major Goals: This proposal aims to develop innovative imaging methods to track mitochondrial movement with nanometer precision while also measuring focal…
Changes in FNDC3 gene function in humans causes birth defects and is associated with poor cancer prognosis, but it has proven challenging to identify a simple mechanism that explains how FNDC3 proteins work. In a…
Interdisciplinary Case Study: Mathematicians and Biologists Found Order in Cellular Noise
During development, cells take cues from their immediate environment to decide their fate, but it is not always easy to “hear” the relevant information among…
Wound healing is a complex process that involves intricate interplay among multiple skin and immune cell types. When optimal conditions are achieved, wounds can heal by true regeneration, when new hairs and new adipose tissue…
Dr. Luderer’s lab showed that irradiation of adult female mice with heavy iron ions, typical of deep space radiation exposures during a Mars mission, led to a four-fold increase in epithelial ovarian tumors in late middle…
Diabetes is often associated with loss of insulin-producing beta cells that reside in the pancreas. The Parsons lab is interested in learning how to make replacement beta cells. The zebrafish is a particularly valuable animal…
We would like to congratulate the following Developmental and Cell Biology students for their 2018 awards. We are very proud of them!!!
Yunyao Xie (O’Dowd Lab): Fine Science Tools Graduate Travel Award
Dail Chapman (Gross Lab): Edward…
Incredibly detailed embryo maps chart each cell’s developmental fate
Developmental biologist Thomas Schilling of the University of California, Irvine, hopes to mine the data for information about the development of the neural crest, a structure found…
Dr. Claudia Benavente, assistant professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Developmental and Cell Biology, was awarded a $100,000 grant through the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR). The AACR-Aflac Incorporated Career Development Award for Pediatric Cancer…
Dr. Lee Bardwell has been awarded as the 2017-2018 Dean’s Honoree for Teaching Excellence.
We wish him a big congratulations!…