Research in the Burns Laboratory is devoted to understanding how cardiovascular progenitor cells build the vertebrate heart during embryonic development...
Hematopoiesis serves as a useful model system for studies of cell fate determination and lineage plasticity. Lineage-specific transcription factors play...
Research in our laboratory is committed to expanding our molecular understanding of the formation and regeneration of tendons and ligaments. Injuries to...
Our laboratory is using cellular, molecular, bioengineering, and computational biology tools to understand how mechanical forces generated by the flow of...
Our laboratory seeks to understand the signals that indicate organ injury and regulate growth and regeneration. The inability to recover from acute injury can... Read more about Wolfram Goessling
Defining and targeting mechanisms of resistance to cancer therapy The primary focus of the Gutierrez lab is to define the molecular mechanisms underlying... Read more about Alejandro Gutierrez
The focus of this laboratory is to understand the genetic basis of development of form – that is shape, size and proportion during vertebrate development...
The increasing emergence of bacterial strains resistant to antibiotics is far outpacing our ability to develop novel therapies to treat these infections....
The muscular dystrophies are progressive disorders of striated muscle leading to breakdown of muscle integrity. There is considerable clinical variability...
The Langenau laboratory research focus is to uncover relapse mechanisms that enhance growth and tumor propagating cell frequency in pediatric cancer....
The fundamental questions under investigation in our laboratory concern how vertebrate craniofacial form takes shape, and how disruption of this highly...
We are studying cancer genetics using the zebrafish animal model as an in vivo system, in combination with RNAi knockdown of critical genes in human tumor...
The Megason Lab uses imaging-based systems biology to elucidate the systems level principles of animal development. We are particularly interested in long...
Xander University Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology
Research in our laboratory focuses on the developmental biology of the pancreas. We wish to understand how the pancreas normally develops and use that... Read more about Douglas A. Melton
William Lambert Richardson Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology
Several long-term research projects in human genetics are ongoing in the Morton laboratory. An overall theme is to apply evolving techniques in molecular... Read more about Cynthia Casson Morton
