PROJECTS:
Hindbrain patterning
Evo-devo
Pancreas development

PROJECTS: Hindbrain Patterning

Gina Elsen - Graduate student, Committee on Neurobiology
Oni Mapp - Graduate student, Committee on Developmental Biology

Gina Elsen   

The primary focus of my work is to begin to understand the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying hindbrain ventricle morphogenesis. Although the importance of the ventricular system in CNS development has been established by analysis of a series of ventricular disorders and neural tube defects, we lack a detailed understanding of how this system forms. I am particularly interested in the dynamics of hindbrain ventricle formation and am gaining understanding of this process by analyzing hindbrain ventricle defects in embryos deficient for zic1 and zic4.

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