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
  • Anne Calof -Stem cells and human developmental disorders
  • Ken W.Y. Cho – Stem cell proliferation and differentiation
  • Olivier Cinquin – Systems biology of cell differentiation
  • Peter Donovan – Molecular genetics of germ cell and stem cell development
  • Dae Seok Eom – cellular and molecular mechanisms of long-range intercellular communication
  • Arthur Lander – Morphogenesis and pattern formation, proteoglycans, birth defects syndromes
  • Grant MacGregor – Molecular basis of mammalian spermatogenesis
  • Ed Monuki – Regulation of neural stem cells from the embryonic cerebral cortex
  • Michael Parsons – Progenitor and stem cell maintenance in the pancreas
  • Maksim Plikus – Mechanisms of regeneration and stem cell control
  • 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

 Research Areas