Developmental Biology
- Mouse models for craniofacial anomalies
- Transcriptional gene networks for craniofacial and tooth development
- New approaches and mouse models for microRNA function
- The role of Hippo Signaling in craniofacial growth
- NADPH oxidase regulation in hair-cell development in the inner ear
- Use of zebrafish as a model to understand the gene-regulatory pathways that establish and maintain neural-crest lineages
- Mechanisms affected by those disruptions of the ion channel TRPM7 that cause melanocyte death and embryonic paralysis
- Roles of transcription factor AP-2 proteins in neural-crest specification and survival
- Role of transcription factor Irf6 in normal craniofacial development
- In vivo function of novel cleft-associated genes in craniofacial development
- Role of cleft-associated genes in epidermal development and differentiation
- Transcriptional control of submucosal-gland formation in the airway
- Somatic-cell reprogramming by nuclear transfer and the development of new genetic models
- Development of the Drosophila neuromuscular junction in the context of unstable synaptic function
- Investigation of G protein signaling in zebrafish embryogenesis
- Use of Drosophila, in particular oogenesis, to elucidate the molecular mechanisms underlying prostaglandin action