6/17/2025
Our laboratory is specifically interested in the regulation of vascular cell commitment, differentiation and cell cycle progression, and defining signaling pathways that modulate these processes. We also aim to understand…
6/17/2025
Maintaining tissue integrity is critical for a healthy body. Cell competition ensures tissue integrity by eliminating sick cells from the population. However, oncogenic mutations can convert a normal cell into…
6/17/2025
Introduction: Mitochondria are often pictured in biology texts as static, individual organelles, when in reality they form highly dynamic and mobile networks constantly undergoing fusion and fission. Research in the last…
6/17/2025
Research Description One of the major goals of my research program is to understand the role of membrane microdomains such as lipid rafts and caveolae in health and disease. We address…
6/17/2025
Human development, immunity, wound healing, fertility, and nutrient uptake all depend upon the ability of cells to change shape. Acquisition of an asymmetric or polarized morphology by a cell is…
6/17/2025
The long-term goal of our research program is to elucidate the roles of peripheral and central glia and glial-glial interactions during nervous system development, maintenance and disease/injury. Using Danio rerio…
6/17/2025
WE USE FROGS TO STUDY DEVELOPMENT, DISEASE, AND REGENERATION PRECISION MEDICINE OF BIRTH DEFECTS Every parent that loses their baby to a birth defect wants to know why and if it will…
6/17/2025
Tracy Larson explores the origins, functions, and mechanisms underlying natural variation in the spatial and temporal patterns of adult neurogenesis by integrating behavioral genomics, comparative neuroanatomy, and cellular biology with…
6/17/2025
My lab is interested in epithelial homeostasis, secretion and innate defense. We focus on the human prosecretory mitogen 'lacritin' that we discovered and named out of an unbiased screen for…
6/17/2025
Matt's research group studies fundamental and applied aspects of mammalian cell signaling and receptor trafficking processes. Signaling and cell phenotype regulation by the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) and the…
