Editors for Developmental Biology
Senior editors
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Sofia J Araújo
University of Barcelona, Spain
Sofia J Araújo is Associate Professor in Genetics, at the Department of Genetics Microbiology and Statistics, University of Barcelona, where she leads the genetics of cell behaviour research group. She received her PhD in Biochemistry from the University of London and did postdoctoral training at King’s College London and IBMB-CSIC in Barcelona. Her research at the University of Barcelona is centered in cell migration and branching morphogenesis, with the aim of understanding how branched organs develop and contribute to living organism homeostasis as well as the ageing process. She is currently head of the Genetics section of the Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Statistics, and board member of the Spanish Society for Developmental Biology. She also holds a Diploma in Science Communication from Birkbeck College, London, and has extensive experience in teaching, communication, and training of scientists on better ways of bringing science to the public.
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Developmental Biology
- Neuroscience
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- neurodevelopment
- DNA repair
- single-cell branching
- cell migration
- tubulogenesis
- organogenesis
- Experimental organism
- D. melanogaster
- Competing interests statement
- Sofia J Araújo's research is currently funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation and the Catalan Agency for Management of University and Research Grants (AGAUR).
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Utpal Banerjee
University of California, Los Angeles, United States
Utpal Banerjee is the Irving and Jean Stone Professor and Chair of the Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology at the University of California, Los Angeles, with a joint appointment in the Department of Biological Chemistry at the David Geffen School of Medicine. He also serves as Co-Director of the Broad Stem Cell Research Center and as Director of the UCLA Interdepartmental Minor in Biomedical Research. He is a member of UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center and is affiliated with the Brain Research Institute and the Neuroscience Graduate Program.
Banerjee’s laboratory has worked on several oncogenic and metabolic signals that are important in development and disease. The lab studies the effects of systemic signals on the maintenance of blood progenitors in Drosophila, and the role of metabolic pathways in the control of proliferation and differentiation in the preimplantation mouse embryo.
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Cancer Biology
- Research focus
- haematopoiesis
- cancer biology
- Experimental organism
- D. melanogaster
- mouse
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Albert Cardona
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Albert Cardona is a programme leader at the MRC LMB and a professor of neuroscience at the University of Cambridge, UK. Formerly a group leader at HHMI Janelia and at the Institute of Neuroinformatics in Zurich. Trained in biology with emphasis in genetics, development and evolution, a passion and need for image processing of bioimagery led to co-founding the Fiji open source software, as well as the TrakEM2 and CATMAID softwares for image registration, segmentation, visualization and the
analysis of neural circuits. His laboratory studies how the structure of a neural circuit relates to its function. Albert's core expertise is in reconstructing neuronal anatomy and synaptic circuits – the connectome – of small animal brains using volume electron microscopy, to then analyse the circuit architecture and formulate computational models of circuit function that capture the neural dynamics and explain how circuits implement behaviour.
- Expertise
- Neuroscience
- Developmental Biology
- Research focus
- neuroscience
- image processing
- development
- neural evolution
- Experimental organism
- D. melanogaster
- squids
- Amphioxus
- lizards
- Competing interests statement
- Albert Cardona receives funding from the MRC LMB and from the Wellcome Trust. He has served as editor of Open Biology and as Reviewing Editor for eLife.
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Kathryn Cheah
The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR China
Kathryn Cheah is a developmental geneticist and Jimmy & Emily Tang Professor in Molecular Genetics and Chair Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Hong Kong. She received her BSc Hons degree in Biology from the University of London and PhD in Molecular Biology from Cambridge University, U.K. After postdoctoral training at the University of Manchester and Imperial Cancer Research Fund in the UK, she joined the University of Hong Kong. Her research focuses on using functional genomics and mouse models to understand gene function and regulation, the associated gene regulatory networks and mechanisms of disease, with a focus on skeletal and inner ear development, congenital and common skeletal disorders. Notable contributions are the identification of SOX2 as essential for prosensory development in the inner ear, SOX9 as a key regulator of COL2A1 and the cartilage gene regulatory network, a lineage continuum for cartilage and bone cells and a causative mechanistic link between endoplasmic reticulum stress and skeletal disorders. She is an elected Fellow of the Global Science Academy, The World Academy Sciences (TWAS).
She was the founding President of the Hong Kong Society for Developmental Biology and the Hong Kong representative for the Asia-Pacific Developmental Biology Network and the International Society of Developmental Biology (2004-2013), elected President of the International Society for Matrix Biology (2006-2008), Senior External Fellow of the University of Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies (2011-2012) and elected member of the Board of Directors of the International Society of Differentiation (2012-2018).
She brings editorial expertise to eLife having previously served as Associate Editor for Genesis, guest Associate Editor for PLOS Genetics, Asian Editor for Development Growth & Differentiation (2015-2016), editorial board member of Matrix Biology, BioEssays, Annual Reviews of Genomics & Human Genetics, and as Reviewing Editor of eLife.
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- gene regulation and development
- inherited and degenerative skeletal disorder
- inner ear
- matrix biology
- Experimental organism
- mouse
- human
- Competing interests statement
- Kathryn Cheah receives research funding from the Hong Kong Research Grants Council and the Hong Kong Health and Medical Research Fund. She is serving as a member of Hong Kong’s University Grants Council Biology Panel for the Research Assessment Exercise 2020. She currently also serves on the editorial boards of Scientific Reports, Genesis and Journal of Orthopaedic Research. She is also serving on the Hong Kong Advisory Board of the Gordon Research Conferences (GRC) and the GRC Conference Evaluation Committee.
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Claude Desplan
New York University, United States
Claude Desplan, DSc, PhD is a Silver Professor of Biology and Neuroscience at NYU and an Affiliate Professor at the CGSB at NYU in Abu Dhabi. Dr. Desplan was born in Algeria and was trained at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in St. Cloud, France. He received his DSc at INSERM in Paris in 1983 working with M.S. Moukhtar and M. Thomasset on calcium regulation. He joined Pat O’Farrell at UCSF as a postdoc where he demonstrated that the homeodomain, a conserved signature of many developmental genes, is a DNA binding motif. In 1987, he joined the Faculty of Rockefeller University as an HHMI Assistant/Associate Investigator to pursue structural studies of the homeodomain and the evolution of axis formation.
In 1999, Dr. Desplan joined NYU where he investigates the generation of neural diversity using the Drosophila visual system. His team has described the molecular mechanisms that pattern the eye and showed how stochastic decisions contribute to the diversification of photoreceptors. It also investigates the development and function of the optic lobes where neuronal diversity is generated by spatio-temporal patterning of neuroblasts, a mechanism that also applies to cortical development in mammals. Recently, his lab has also provided a functional understanding of the neuronal and computational mechanisms underlying motion detection.
His laboratory also uses ‘evo-devo’ approaches to understand the mechanisms by which sensory systems adapt to different ecological conditions, from flies to ants to butterflies.
Dr. Desplan serves on multiple scientific advisory boards and committees for funding agencies. He is an elected member of the AAAS, of EMBO, the New York Academy of Sciences as well as the US National Academy of Sciences.
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Neuroscience
- Research focus
- development neurobiology
- evo-devo
- vision
- stochasticity in development
- rhodopsin
- aging and caste determination (ants)
- Experimental organism
- D. melanogaster
- ants
- insects
- butterflies
- wasps
- flies
- Competing interests statement
- Dr. Desplan has been a member of the Board of Reviewing Editor for Science for the last 10 years (non-renumerated). He is an academic editor for PLOS Biology and PLOS Genetics (non-renumerated). Dr. Desplan occasionally serves as academic editor for other scientific journals (e.g. PNAS). He is a consultant for the Khalifa Center for Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology Al Ain, UAE. Dr. Desplan receives funding from the NIH and the NYU Abu Dhabi Center for Genomics and Systems Biology.
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Pankaj Kapahi
Buck Institute for Research on Aging, United States
Dr Kapahi received his PhD from the University of Manchester, where he worked with Tom Kirkwood. He did his postdoctoral work with Seymour Benzer at Caltech and Michael Karin at University of California, San Diego. He joined the Buck Institute as an assistant professor in 2004.
Dr Kapahi has published more than 80 scientific papers and holds three current patents. He has been recognized for his scientific excellence with many awards, including the Eureka Award from the National Institute on Aging, a New Scholar Award from the Ellison Medical Foundation, a Glenn Award for Research in Biological Mechanisms of Aging, the Nathan Shock Young Investigator Award, and the Breakthrough in Gerontology and Julie Martin Mid-career awards from AFAR. Dr. Kapahi also initiated the first master’s degree course in gerontology at the Buck Institute. His lab studies the genetic mechanisms by which nutrients modulate aging and age-related disease.
- Expertise
- Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
- Developmental Biology
- Research focus
- aging
- age-related diseases
- nutrient signaling
- metabolism
- inflammation
- Experimental organism
- C. elegans
- D. melanogaster
- E. coli
- mouse
- Competing interests statement
- Dr Kapahi currently hold grants from the NIH, Hillblom Foundation, Hevolution Foundation. He is also founder of a start up in the aging field, Juvify.
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Jürgen Kleine-Vehn
University of Freiburg, Germany
Jürgen is a Professor at the University of Freiburg. He obtained his PhD for his work on plant cell polarity at the Flemish Institute of Biotechnology (VIB) at the Ghent University. He has been an Associate Professor at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna and is now full Professor and chair of Molecular Plant Physiology (MoPP) at the University of Freiburg. He works at the interface of quantitative plant cell biology and developmental plant genetics, addressing plant growth control at a subcellular to organ scale.
- Expertise
- Plant Biology
- Cell Biology
- Developmental Biology
- Research focus
- plant hormones
- growth control
- plant architecture
- Competing interests statement
- Jürgen Kleine-Vehn has received and profited from funding by the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF), the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW), the European Research Council (ERC), the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), and the German Research Foundation (DFG). He is on the editorial board of the International Journal of Molecular Science and on the advisory board of Review Commons (operated by EMBO). He has been an elected member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Young Curia).
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Lois Smith
Harvard Medical School, Children's Hospital Boston, United States
Lois EH Smith MD, PhD is an ophthalmologist and clinician/scientist at Boston Children’s Hospital and Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School. Her basic research work is in retinal neovascularization, both basic mechanism and treatment including diabetic retinopathy, retinopathy of prematurity, age-related macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa.
She has a long standing interest in eye diseases particularly retinopathy of prematurity, diabetic retinopathy, and AMD and in the mechanisms behind these diseases, particularly the underlying causes of neovascularization and the interactions between neurons and vessels. Many pathways that they have found have been translated into clinical trials, including replacement of IGF-1 in preterm infants and treatment of AMD with anti-VEGF antibodies in which they were the first to show the benefit of blocking VEGF in a mouse model of retinopathy. More recently Dr Smith's work has been interested in metabolic function in photoreceptors, particularly with respect to lipids. Photoreceptor metabolic dysfunction causes central vision loss in retinal degenerative diseases (including ROP) but is also implicated in age-related macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy.
Dr Smith is the recipient of the Friedenwald award, the Alcon Research Institute award, the Silverman award, and the Bressler Prize.
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Medicine
- Neuroscience
- Research focus
- age-related macular degeneration
- diabetic eye disease
- retinopathy
- ocular disease
- developmental neuroscience
- Competing interests statement
- Dr Smith has received funding from the National Eye Institute, Massachusetts Lions Eye Research Fund, the European Union, the Lowy Medical Research Institute, Foundation Fighting Blindness, Research to Prevent Blindness Senior Investigator Award, and the Alcon Award.Current editor roles include: Editor for Ophthalmology (Science), Editor for Journal of Clinical Ophthalmology, and Editor IOVS (Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science).
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Didier Stainier
Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research, Germany
Didier Stainier is the director of the Department of Developmental Genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research, Bad Nauheim (Frankfurt), Germany. He studied Biology in Wales, Belgium and the USA (Brandeis University) where he got a BA in 1984. He then received his PhD in Biochemistry and Biophysics from Harvard University (1990) where he investigated the cellular basis of axon guidance and target recognition in the developing mouse brain with Wally Gilbert. After a Helen Hay Whitney postdoctoral fellowship with Mark Fishman at the Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston), where he initiated the studies on zebrafish cardiac development, he set up his lab at the University of California, San Francisco in 1995, where he expanded his research to investigate questions of cell differentiation, tissue morphogenesis, organ homeostasis and function, as well as organ regeneration, in the zebrafish cardiovascular system and endodermal organs. In 2012, he moved to the Max Planck Institute where he continues to utilize both forward and reverse genetic approaches to investigate cellular and molecular mechanisms of developmental processes during vertebrate organ formation, in both zebrafish and mouse. He is also an Honorary Professor at Goethe University in Frankfurt. In addition to research and mentorship awards at UCSF, he was a Packard Fellow, Basil O’Connor scholar, established Investigator of the American Heart Association, received the American Association of Anatomists Harland Mossman Award in Developmental Biology, and was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Academia Europaea and European Molecular Biology Organization, as well as an Officier de l’ordre de Léopold de Belgique.
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Research focus
- developmental genetics
- organogenesis
- tissue morphogenesis
- organ homeostasis
- Experimental organism
- zebrafish
- mouse
- Competing interests statement
- Didier Stainier has received funding from the Max Planck Society, the European Research Council, the National Institutes of Health, the Packard Foundation, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, the American Heart Association, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and the Leducq Foundation among others. In addition to being a Senior Editor for eLife, he currently serves as a Managing Editor for Mechanisms of Development, is on the editorial board of Development and FEBS letters, and is an International Strategic Advisor for the National Institute of Genetics in Mishima, Japan. He previously served as a Section Editor for BMC Developmental Biology and was the founding chair of the Dev1 study section of the National Institutes of Health.
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Lori Sussel
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, United States
Lori Sussel is a Professor of Pediatrics and Cell & Developmental Biology at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Center. She also serves as Director of the Research Division at Barbara Davis Center for Diabetes. She received her BA in Microbiology at the University of Texas, Austin and her PhD in Molecular Biology from Columbia University where she investigated transcriptional regulation in yeast. She pursued postdoctoral studies first with Dr. Barbara Meyer (UC Berkeley) and then Dr. John Rubenstein (UC San Francisco) where applied her interests in transcriptional regulation of cell fates to developmental processes. During her postdoctoral studies, she was funded by a Life Science Research Fellowship, a NIH F32 fellowship and the A.P Giannini Foundation. She began her independent career at the University of Colorado where she initiated her studies on the transcriptional regulation of pancreatic islet cell fates. In 2006, she moved to the Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center at Columbia University where she continued to investigate pancreas development and islet biology, expanding her interests in transcriptional regulation to roles of long non-coding RNAs and RNA processing. In 2016, she returned to the University of Colorado to become the Director of Basic and Translational Research at the Barbara Davis Center for Diabetes. Her research continues to focus on pancreas development and islet biology using mice and human stem cell platforms to understand the molecular underpinnings of the islet dysfunctions associated with diabetes. In this position, she holds the Sissel and Findlow Family Chair in Stem Cell Biology.
- Expertise
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Developmental Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- pancreas development
- islet biology
- transcriptional regulation
- long non-coding RNAs
- diabetes
- developmental genetics
- Experimental organism
- mouse
- human cells
- Competing interests statement
- Lori Sussel has received funding from the National Institutes of Health, the American Diabetes Association, and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. In addition to being a Senior Editor for eLife, she currently serves as an Associate Editor for Science Advances, and is on the editorial board of Developmental Biology and Life Science Alliance. She previously served as an Associate Editor for Diabetes and Pediatric Diabetes and was on the editorial board of Molecular Metabolism.
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K VijayRaghavan
National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India
Vijay’s research aims to understand motor- and olfactory- circuit assembly: from deciphering how each component is made, interacts, and stabilises into functioning in the animal to allow behaviour in the real world. Related to the development of network function is its maintenance in the mature animal; another aspect of the work in the laboratory addresses how mature neurons and muscles are maintained. The laboratory uses a genetic approach, mainly using the fruit fly but also collaborating with those using mouse and cell-culture. VijayRaghavan is Secretary to the Government of India in the Ministry of Science and Technology in the Department of Biotechnology. He temporarily holds additional charge of the Department of Biotechnology. VijayRaghavan’s research continues at the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) in Bangalore, India, where he is Distinguished Professor. He studied engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. His doctoral work was at TIFR, Mumbai and postdoctoral work at the California Institute of Technology. VijayRaghavan is a Fellow of the Royal Society, a Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences and a Foreign Associate of the European Molecular Biology Organization.
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Neuroscience
- Research focus
- genetics and genomics
- developmental biology
- neurogenetics
- neurobiology
- genetic basis of behavior
- Experimental organism
- D. melanogaster
- human
- mouse
- Competing interests statement
- K VijayRaghavan currently receives research support from the Indo–French research agency CEFIPRA, and core support from the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR). Previous support was from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Wellcome Trust, the Indian Department of Science and Technology (DST), Department of Biotechnology (DBT), CEFIPRA, the Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP), and the US National Institutes of Health (NIH). VijayRaghavan serves on the Board of Governors of the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Janelia Farm Research Campus of the HHMI, Chair of the Research Council of the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, and Member of the Governing Council of the National Institute of Immunology. He is Associate Editor of BMC Developmental Biology, and a member of the editorial boards of Development, Seminars in Developmental Biology, and Bioconcepts. He is Chair of the Board of the Center for Cellular and Molecular Platforms (C-CAMP), a not-for-profit company of the National Centre for Biological Sciences and the stem cell institute, inStem, created to manage platform technologies and for technology transfer on the NCBS–inStem campus. He is a member of the board of the Madhuram Narayanan Centre for Exceptional Children, a not-for-profit school for disabled children in Chennai, and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Human Frontier Science Program.
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Richard M White
Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Richard White, M.D., Ph.D, is a physician-scientist at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Weill Cornell Medical College. He is interested in basic mechanisms underlying metastasis, using the zebrafish as a model system. His work has established numerous techniques for cancer modeling and high-resolution imaging in the fish. Using these tools, the lab is focused on the cross-talk between tumor cells and the microenvironment, and how this interplay influences metastatic success. His work has revealed novel interactions between melanoma cells and adipocytes in the microenvironment, and how neural crest programs play roles in melanoma progression. He has been awarded the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, the Pershing Square Foundation Award, and the Mark Foundation ASPIRE award.
- Expertise
- Cancer Biology
- Cell Biology
- Developmental Biology
- Medicine
- Research focus
- development
- neural crest
- zebrafish
- cancer
- melanoma
- metastasis
- microenvironment
- Experimental organism
- zebrafish
- Competing interests statement
- Richard White receives funding from the National Institutes of Health, the Pershing Square Sohn Foundation, the Mark Foundation, the Melanoma Research Alliance, the American Cancer Society and the Harry J. Lloyd Foundation. He receives consulting fees from N-of-One, Inc.
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Wei Yan
University of California, Los Angeles, United States
Wei Yan obtained his MD from China Medical University and PhD from University of Turku, Finland. After finishing his post-doc training at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, he started his own lab at the University of Nevada School of Medicine, where he rose through the ranks and eventually named University Foundation Professor, the highest honor the University bestows upon its faculty. In 2020, he joined The Lundquist Institute at Harbor-UCLA to direct the newly established National Center for Male Reproductive Epigenomics, one of the seven National Centers for Translational Research in Reproduction and Infertility (NCTRI) supported by the NICDH. The Yan lab works on genetic and epigenetic control of fertility and the epigenetic contribution of gametes to fertilization, early embryonic development, and adulthood health. He has so far published over 160 peer-reviewed research articles and book chapters with over 12,00 citations.
His lab first put forward a novel idea for the development of non-hormonal male contraceptives: “Do not kill, but disable sperm”, which led to the discovery of TRIPTONIDE, a natural compound, as a reversible non-hormonal contraceptive agent in mice and monkeys, and established it as a drug candidate for “The Pill” for men. His lab also discovered the function of motile cilia in the reproductive tracts. In the male, motile ciliary beating function as an agitator to maintain the constant suspension of immotile testicular sperm during their transit through the efferent ductules in men. In the female, motile cilia in the oviduct/Fallopian tube are essential for oocyte pickup and fertility, but dispensable for embryo and sperm transport, which are mostly achieved through smooth muscle contraction. This discovery solved the long-standing controversy about the role of cilia beating vs. muscle contraction in gamete/embryo transport. His lab elucidated several novel mechanisms underlying the unique regulation of gene expression during the haploid phase of spermatogenesis, including global shortening of transcripts, delayed translation/uncoupling of transcription and translation, and dynamic changes in poly(A) length and non-A contents. His lab first discovered mitochondrial genome-encoded small RNAs (mitosRNAs), endo-siRNAs in the male germline and MSCI-escaping X-linked miRNAs. His lab was also among those that suggested critical functions of sperm-borne RNAs in supporting early embryonic development and epigenetic inheritance.
Wei Yan’s contributions to science have been recognized by several academic awards, including the 2009 Society for the Study of Reproduction (SSR) Young Investigator Award, the 2012 American Society of Andrology (ASA) Young Andrologist Award, the 2013 Nevada Healthcare Hero Award for Research and Technology, the 2017 University of Nevada, Reno Outstanding Researcher Award, the 2018 SSR Research Award and the 2020 Nevada System of Higher Education Research Award. Dr Yan was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2017 and SSR Distinguished Fellow in 2023.
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Medicine
- Research focus
- reproduction
- epigenetic inheritance
- regulation of spermatogenesis
- female infertility
- sperm biology
- reproductive tract
- ovarian biology
- female fertility
- contraceptive development
- endocrine control of reproduction and fertility
- germline epigenetic reprogramming
- sperm-borne large and small RNA
- Competing interests statement
- The Yan lab receives funding from the NIH, Male Contraceptive Initiative, and John Templeton Foundation. Wei Yan serves on the Advisory Board of Contraceptive Accelerator Network, LLC. Wei Yan served as co-Editor-in-Chief of Biology of Reproduction (2017-2021). He serves as Associate Editor for Environmental Epigenetics and Reviewing Editor for FASEB journal.
Reviewing editors
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Cynthia L Andoniadou
King's College London, United Kingdom
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Medicine
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- stem cells
- endocrine
- pituitary gland
- adrenal gland
- paracrine signalling
- tumours
- Experimental organism
- human
- mouse
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H. Efsun Arda
National Cancer Institute, United States
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- pancreas
- single-cell
- enhancers
- chromatin
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Erika A Bach
New York University School of Medicine, United States
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- stem cell self-renewal
- stem cell differentiation
- cell competition
- stem cell competition
- transdifferentiation
- stem cell aging
- sex determination
- Experimental organism
- D. melanogaster
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Michel Bagnat
Duke University, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Developmental Biology
- Research focus
- morphogenesis
- tubulogenesis
- notochord
- spine
- gut
- epithelial
- polarity
- Experimental organism
- zebrafish
- mouse
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Hua Bai
Iowa State University, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Developmental Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- human cell culture
- Experimental organism
- Drosophila
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Victoria L Bautch
University of North Carolina, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Developmental Biology
- Research focus
- growth and interactions of cells
- blood vessel formation
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Hugo J Bellen
Baylor College of Medicine, United States
- Expertise
- Neuroscience
- Developmental Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- neurobiology
- human neurological disease
- Alzheimer's disease
- Parkinson's disease
- diagnosis of human genetic diseases
- fly technology
- CRIMIC
- MiMIC
- Experimental organism
- D. melanogaster
- mouse
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Dominique Bergmann
Stanford University, United States
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Plant Biology
- Research focus
- asymmetric division
- cell fate
- stomata
- cell polarity
- Experimental organism
- A. thaliana
- Brachypodium
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Jimena Berni
University of Sussex, United Kingdom
- Expertise
- Neuroscience
- Developmental Biology
- Research focus
- locomotion
- developmental biology
- central pattern generators
- neurogenetics
- neurobiology
- genetic basis of behavior
- Experimental organism
- Drosophila
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Joshua Brickman
Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Stem Cell Biology (DanStem), Denmark
- Expertise
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Developmental Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- embryonic stem cells
- endoderm
- pluripotency
- lineage priming
- transcription factors
- Experimental organism
- mouse
- Xenopus
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Caroline E Burns
Boston Children's Hospital, United States
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- cardiopharyngeal
- cardiovascular disease modeling
- cardiac development
- cardiac function
- cardiovascular regeneration
- cardiomyocyte proliferation
- Experimental organism
- zebrafish
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Michael Buszczak
UT Southwestern Medical Center, United States
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- stem cells
- germ cells
- ribosomes
- mRNA translation
- chromatin
- DNA damage
- meiosis
- Experimental organism
- D. melanogaster
- human
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Anne E Carlson
University of Pittsburgh, United States
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
- Research focus
- fertilization
- ion channel regulation
- biophysics
- sperm
- calcium
- eggs
- zinc
- TMEM16A
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Frank Chan
Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, University of Groningen, Netherlands
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- evolution
- adaptation
- complex traits
- transcriptional regulation
- non-model organisms
- selective sweeps
- single-cell techniques
- haplotypes
- genomes
- genetic mapping
- Experimental organism
- mouse
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Xin Chen
Johns Hopkins University, United States
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Research focus
- germ cells
- stem cells
- asymmetric cell division
- histones
- epigenetics
- transcription
- Experimental organism
- C. elegans
- D. melanogaster
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Tom H Cheung
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR China
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- tissue regeneration
- biological aging
- adult stem cells
- muscle stem cells
- satellite cell
- post-transcriptional regulation
- epigenetic regulation
- microRNAs
- RNA binding proteins
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Ariel Chipman
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Research focus
- segmentation
- Cambrian explosion
- evo-devo
- body plan evolution
- head evolution
- molting
- Experimental organism
- arthropods
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Filippo Del Bene
Institut de la Vision, France
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Neuroscience
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- zebrafish
- visual system
- optogenetics
- neural circuits
- behavior
- brain function
- genome editing
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Danelle Devenport
Princeton University, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Developmental Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- cell polarity
- planar cell polarity
- epidermis
- skin
- oriented cell divisions
- morphogenesis
- epithelia
- Experimental organism
- mammals
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Xin Duan
University of California, San Francisco, United States
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Neuroscience
- Research focus
- synapse formation
- superior colliculus
- optic neuropathy
- retinal circuitry
- transsynaptic tracing
- cadherins
- optic nerve regeneration
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Stephen C Ekker
Mayo Clinic, United States
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
- Research focus
- gene editing
- morpholinos
- transposons
- mitochondria
- health engineering
- Experimental organism
- zebrafish
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John Ewer
Universidad de Valparaiso, Chile
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Neuroscience
- Genetics and Genomics
- Medicine
- Research focus
- animal behaviour
- neuropeptides
- circadian clocks
- insect endocrinology
- Experimental organism
- D. melanogaster
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Bo Gao
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR China
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Developmental Biology
- Medicine
- Research focus
- planar cell polarity
- scoliosis
- skeletal disease
- wnt signaling
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Arjumand Ghazi
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, United States
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Immunology and Inflammation
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- aging
- geroscience
- reproductive aging
- longevity
- healthspan
- oocytes
- innate immunity
- inflammation
- proteostasis
- Experimental organism
- C. elegans
- Drosophila melanogaster
- mouse
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Ilona C Grunwald Kadow
Technical University of Munich, Germany
- Expertise
- Neuroscience
- Genetics and Genomics
- Developmental Biology
- Research focus
- circuit neuroscience
- behavior
- in vivo imaging
- chemosensation
- olfactory system
- neuromodulation
- metabolism
- internal state
- Experimental organism
- D. melanogaster
- mouse
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P Robin Hiesinger
Institute for Biology Free University Berlin, Germany
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Developmental Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Neuroscience
- Research focus
- brain development
- synapse
- neurogenetics
- membrane trafficking
- Drosophila
- neurodegeneration
- computational modelling
- live-cell imaging
- Experimental organism
- D. melanogaster
- organoids
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Benjamin M Hogan
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Australia
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- lymphatics
- lymphangiogenesis
- angiogenesis
- vascular cell biology
- pericytes
- Experimental organism
- zebrafish
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Catarina Homem
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Neuroscience
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- neurobiology
- stem cells
- neural stem cells
- tumor metabolism
- transcription regulation
- cellular metabolism
- cell fate regulation
- tumors
- neuron differentiation
- maturation
- Experimental organism
- Drosophila
-
Valerie Horsley
Yale University, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Developmental Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- epithelial stem cells
- adipocyte stem cells
- adipose tissue
- epithelial-mesenchymal interactions
- mechanical regulation of tissues
- tissue regeneration
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Patrick J Hu
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, United States
- Expertise
- Medicine
- Developmental Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- signal transduction
- genetics
- development
- aging
- cancer
- endoplasmic reticulum homeostasis
- dauer
- Experimental organism
- C. elegans
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Maneesha S Inamdar
Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, India
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Cell Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- pluripotent stem cells
- hematopoiesis
- vascular
- organelles
- mitochondria
- vesicular trafficking
- cytoskeleton
- protein sorting
-
Arezu Jahani-Asl
McGill University, Canada
- Expertise
- Cancer Biology
- Cell Biology
- Developmental Biology
- Research focus
- glioblastoma
- stem cells
- mitochondria
- transcription
- mental retardation
- neurodegeneration
- cancer
- Experimental organism
- mouse
-
Loydie A Jerome-Majewska
McGill University, Canada
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Cell Biology
- Medicine
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- splicing
- protein transport
- neural crest cells
- Experimental organism
- mouse
-
Shingo Kajimura
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Developmental Biology
- Research focus
- bioenergetics
- metabolism
- metabolic disease
- adaptation
- adipose tissue biology
-
Koichi Kawakami
National Institute of Genetics, Japan
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Neuroscience
- Research focus
- organogenesis
- disease models
- biotechnology
- optogenetics
- transposable elements
- behavior
- brain function
- neural circuits
- Experimental organism
- zebrafish
-
Johnny Kim
TRON gGmbH, Germany
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- stem cells
- regeneration
- cardiovascular biomedicine
- muscle biology
- reprogramming
- aging
- totipotency
- pluripotency
- cell therapy
- gene therapy
- Experimental organism
- mouse
- human
-
Paschalis Kratsios
University of Chicago, United States
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Neuroscience
- Research focus
- neuronal development
- transcription factors
- chromatin factors
- neuronal identity
- genetics
- Experimental organism
- C. elegans
- mouse
-
Vira Kravets
University of California, San Diego, United States
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Developmental Biology
- Research focus
- computational modeling
- network theory
- quantitative microscopy
-
Shigehiro Kuraku
National Institute of Genetics, Japan
- Expertise
- Evolutionary Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Developmental Biology
- Research focus
- molecular evolution
- gene family evolution
- developmental roles of duplicated genes
- early vertebrate genome evolution
- Experimental organism
- reptiles
- cyclostomes
- chondrichthyans
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Cristina Lo Celso
Imperial College London, United Kingdom
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- hematopoietic stem cell function
- intravital microscopy
- hematopoietic system
-
Falong Lu
Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Research focus
- epigenetics
- RNA modifications
- imprinting
- stem cells
- reprogramming
- poly(A) tail
- early embryo
- chromatin modifications
- Experimental organism
- mouse
- human
-
Pablo A Manavella
Instituto de Agrobiotecnología del Litoral , Argentina
- Expertise
- Plant Biology
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Genetics and Genomics
- Developmental Biology
- Research focus
- small RNA
- microRNAs
- RNA biology
- chromatin
- epigenetics
- transposable elements
- gene silencing
- miRNA biogenesis
- Experimental organism
- A. thaliana
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Lolitika Mandal
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali, India
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Cell Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- development
- hematopoiesis
- cardiogenesis
- metabolism
- signalling
- stem cell biology
- Experimental organism
- Drosophila
-
Juan P Martinez-Barbera
University College London, United Kingdom
- Expertise
- Medicine
- Cancer Biology
- Developmental Biology
- Research focus
- brain
- pituitary
- tumour and cancer
- embryos
- cell senescence
- senescence-associate secretory phenotype (SASP)
- senolytic
- Experimental organism
- mouse
-
Sigolène M Meilhac
Imagine-Institut Pasteur, France
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Research focus
- morphogenesis
- patterning
- left-right asymmetry
- heart development
- cardiac cell lineages
- congenital heart defect
- mouse genetics
- Experimental organism
- mouse
-
Simón Méndez-Ferrer
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Expertise
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Developmental Biology
- Cancer Biology
- Medicine
- Research focus
- haematopoietic stem cell niche
- mesenchymal stem cells
- myeloproliferative neoplasms
- acute myeloid leukemia
- neuroimmunology
-
Yuji Mishina
University of Michigan, United States
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- craniofacial development
- neural crest
- osteoblasts
- osteoclasts
- growth factor signaling
- cartilage development
- cell fate specification
- skeletogenesis
-
Binyam Mogessie
Yale University, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Developmental Biology
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Research focus
- meiosis
- mitosis
- oocytes
- actin
- microtubules
- chromosome segregation
- chromosome cohesion
- chromosome organisation
- kinetochores
- aneuploidy
- fertility
- Experimental organism
- mouse
- human
- pig
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Tina Mukherjee
Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine (inStem), India
- Expertise
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Developmental Biology
- Research focus
- metabolism
- myeloid development and function
- stem cells and development
- neuro-immune crosstalk
- Experimental organism
- drosophila
- mouse
- mosquitos
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Marcos Nahmad
Centre for Research and Advanced Studies, Mexico
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Developmental Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- growth control
- drosophila genetics
- developmental patterning
- mathematical modelling
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Roel Nusse
Stanford University, United States
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- wnt signaling
- stem cells
- tissue repair
- Experimental organism
- mouse
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Izuchukwu Okafor
Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Nigeria
- Expertise
- Cancer Biology
- Cell Biology
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Developmental Biology
- Epidemiology and Global Health
- Genetics and Genomics
- Medicine
- Neuroscience
- Research focus
- developmental biology
- reproductive biology
- gene expression
- molecular biology
- public health
- reproductive health
- medical education
- anatomical sciences
- neuroreproduction
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Noriaki Ono
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, United States
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Research focus
- cartilage development
- craniofacial development
- skeletal stem cells
- bone development
- bone regeneration
- bone & cartilage tumor
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Michael Perry
University of California, San Diego, United States
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Research focus
- evo-devo
- developmental neurobiology
- stochasticity in development
- sexual dimorphism
- cell fate specification
- sensory system evolution
- Experimental organism
- D. melanogaster
- butterflies
- insects
- mosquitos
- house flies
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Samuel Pleasure
University of California, San Francisco, United States
- Expertise
- Medicine
- Developmental Biology
- Neuroscience
- Research focus
- circuit development
- hippocampus
- cerebral cortex
- epilepsy
- human
- forebrain development
- autoimmune encephalitis
- morphogenic signals
- mouse
- multiple sclerosis
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Douglas Portman
University of Rochester, United States
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Neuroscience
- Research focus
- neurogenetics
- behavioral genetics
- behavioral plasticity
- hypothamalus sex differences
- neuronal development
- Experimental organism
- C. elegans
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Jeremy Reiter
University of California, San Francisco, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Developmental Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- cilia
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Olivia S Rissland
University of Colorado School of Medicine, United States
- Expertise
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Genetics and Genomics
- Developmental Biology
- Research focus
- post-transcriptional regulation
- RNA
- translation
- maternal-to-zygotic transition
- small RNAs
- RNA decay
- Experimental organism
- drosophila
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Sarah Russell
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Australia
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Developmental Biology
- Immunology and Inflammation
- Research focus
- cell fate determination
- T cells
- cell polarity
- synapse
- asymmetric cell division
- Scribble
- Experimental organism
- mouse
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James R Sellers
National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, United States
- Expertise
- Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
- Cell Biology
- Developmental Biology
- Research focus
- myosin
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Sonia Sen
Tata Institute for Genetics and Society, India
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Neuroscience
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- neural stem cells
- neural circuits
- evo-devo
- Drosophila
- mosquito
- Experimental organism
- D. melanogaster
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Mark S Sharpley
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, United Kingdom
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Research focus
- developmental metabolism
- preimplantation
- trophoblast
- metabolomics
- NAD+/NADH
- metabolic control
- cell fate
-
Jiwon Shim
Hanyang University, South Korea
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Developmental Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Immunology and Inflammation
- Research focus
- hematopoiesis
- innate immunity
- hemocyte
- development
- signaling
- inter-organ communication
- Experimental organism
- D. melanogaster
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Yuko Shimada-Niwa
University of Tsukuba, Japan
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Cell Biology
- Research focus
- ecdysteroid biosynthesis
- prothoracic gland
- parasitoid wasp
- parasitism
- oogenesis
- planar cell polarity
- Experimental organism
- Drosophila melanogaster
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Roy V Sillitoe
Baylor College of Medicine, United States
- Expertise
- Neuroscience
- Developmental Biology
- Research focus
- cerebellum
- dystonia
- tremor
- electrophysiology
- mouse genetics
- development
- Experimental organism
- mouse
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Mahendra Sonawane
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Developmental Biology
- Research focus
- morphogenesis
- epithelial organisation
- epithelial cell polarity
- cytoskeleton and membrane projections
- epidermis development
- Experimental organism
- zebrafish
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Yan Song
Peking University, China
- Expertise
- Neuroscience
- Developmental Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Research focus
- developmental neurobiology
- cell fate decisions
- epigenetics
- stem cells
- neurodevelopmental disorders
- transcriptional control
- cell fate memory
- Experimental organism
- mouse
- D. melanogaster
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Pablo H Strobl-Mazzulla
Instituto Tecnológico de Chascomús, Argentina
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Developmental Biology
- Research focus
- vertebrate development
- microRNAs
- epigenetics
- neural crest
- placodes
-
Rio Sugimura
The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR China
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Research focus
- hematopoiesis
- human pluripotent stem cells
- lineage tracing
- organoid
- embryology
- niche
- Experimental organism
- human
- mouse
-
Owen Tamplin
University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States
- Expertise
- Genetics and Genomics
- Developmental Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- hematopoeitic stem cells
- microenvironment
- zebrafish
- blood development
-
Kristin Tessmar-Raible
University of Vienna, Austria
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Developmental Biology
- Ecology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Neuroscience
- Research focus
- chronobiology
- marine
- photobiology
- rhythms
- clocks
- physiology
- Experimental organism
- platynereis
- clunio
- danio
- medakafish
- oryzias
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Fadel Tissir
University of Louvain, Belgium
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Neuroscience
- Research focus
- neural progenitors
- neuronal migration
- polarity
- axon guidance
- neurodevelopmental disorders
- ciliogenesis
- cortical malformations
- gene/genome editing
- Experimental organism
- mouse
-
Ivan Velasco
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Neuroscience
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- embryonic stem cells
- induced pluripotent stem cells
- neural stem cells
- CNS development
- Parkinson's disease
- animal models of neurological diseases
- cell grafting
- axonal guidance
- regeneration
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Pablo Wappner
Instituto Leloir, Argentina
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Developmental Biology
- Research focus
- cell differentiation
- signaling pathways
- hypoxia
- autophagy
- adaptation to stress
- Experimental organism
- drosophila
-
Doris Wu
National Institutes of Health, Section on Sensory Cell Regeneration and Development, United States
- Expertise
- Neuroscience
- Developmental Biology
- Research focus
- inner ear development
- vestibular and cochlear patterning and development
- Experimental organism
- chicken
- mouse
- zebrafish
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Jian Xu
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, United States
- Expertise
- Cancer Biology
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Developmental Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- hematopoiesis
- erythropoiesis
- myeloid leukemia
- epigenetics
- transcription regulation
- enhancer
- metabolism
- Experimental organism
- human
- mouse
-
Yukiko M Yamashita
HHMI, University of Michigan, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Developmental Biology
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- stem cell niche
- asymmetric cell division
- satellite DNA
- germline immortality
- ribosomal DNA
- Experimental organism
- D. melanogaster
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Han Zhu
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, United States
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Developmental Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- pluripotent stem cells
- human embryonic cells
- human organoid
- stem cell derived pancreatic islets
- pancreatic islet development
- pancreatic islet function
- diabetes
- gene regulation
- single-cell genomics
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Michael E Zuber
SUNY Upstate Medical University, United States
- Expertise
- Developmental Biology
- Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
- Research focus
- neurogenesis
- visual system development
- visual system regeneration
- transcription factors
- Experimental organism
- Xenopus