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Explore the profiles of some of the labs you’ll be meeting!
Robert Carrillo, PhD
Assistant Professor
Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology
NEETO Program Director
The long term goals of the lab are to understand the molecules and developmental programs that regulate neuronal development and wiring. In a previous study, we investigated the biology of the novel interactions between two subfamilies of the immunoglobulin superfamily in Drosophila (…)
Elizabeth Heckscher, PhD
Assistant Professor
Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology
To study the molecular, cellular, & developmental basis of behavior, we use Drosophila larval sensorimotor system as a model system. In Drosophila larvae we can span multiple levels of analysis, from molecular and cellular biology to organismal behavior. We have two main interests: neural circuit development and the neural basis (…)
Paschalis Kratsios, PhD
Associate Professor
Neurobiology
My lab uses the specific strengths of two model systems (C.elegans and mice) to reveal the gene regulatory mechanisms that control motor neuron development and function. To reveal such mechanisms we employ novel methodology, such as whole genome sequencing, CRISPR genome editing, ATAC-seq and cell type-specific transcriptome profiling. Our laboratory aims to systematically test (…)
Marcus Kronforst, PhD
Professor
Ecology and Evolution
We study adaptation and speciation, with a special focus on the genetic basis of wing pattern mimicry in butterflies. Other topics of study in the lab include mate preference evolution in butterflies, monarch butterfly (…)
Jocelyn Malamy, PhD
Associate Professor
Development, Regeneration, and Stem Cell
Biology
In Clytia, we have recently started a new project to understand wound healing and regeneration. Regenerative capabilities in Cnidarians are second only to plants. We have found that epithelial healing is at least 100x faster in Cnidarians that in other (…)
Engin Özkan, PhD
Assistant Professor
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Our Laboratory is striving to understand the development and functioning of the nervous system through structural biology and biochemistry. We are interested in protein-protein interactions and their molecular underpinnings that govern how neurons function and are regulated by their environment. (…)
Victoria E. Prince, PhD
Associate Professor
Organismal Biology and Anatomy
My research program at the University of Chicago focuses on vertebrate axial regionalization during development, primarily using the zebrafish as a model. My group takes a variety of molecular, cellular, genetic and comparative approaches to these studies, and we have made important contributions to a variety of research areas, including the understanding of Hox gene regulation of (…)
Clifton Warren Ragsdale, PhD
Professor
Neurobiology
Organismal Biology and Anatomy
The Ragsdale lab studies the evolutionary biology of brain organization and development. This has led us to two areas of research, the molecular, cellular and genomic biology of cephalopods (octopus, squid, cuttlefish) and the evolution of the neocortex. (…)