This area supports studies to determine mechanisms underlying human development including developmental processes in experimental model systems, as well as how specialized tissues and organs form from a series of divisions of a single fertilized egg.
This program is interested in elucidating basic cellular and molecular mechanisms that direct the single fertilized egg to develop into a complex multicellular organism. These studies use a variety of animal species to examine the events involved in cell division, cell migrations, establishment of pattern, interactions between cells and between cells and extracellular materials, fate determination and differentiation. Also of interest is the development and application of imaging technology to visualize developmental processes.
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