We are honored the following speakers were able to share their knowledge with us May 6, 2015 at the 2015 Developmental and Stem Cell Biology Symposium:
Dr. Anne Brunet
Professor of Genetics at Stanford School of Medicine
The African turquoise killifish: A new vertebrate model for studying aging and evolution of lifespan
Dr. Brunet is a Professor of Genetics at Stanford School of Medicine. Since she began her lab in 2004, her lab’s research has focused on the molecular basis of aging and longevity, including the role of FOXO transcription factors and epigenetic regulation, using C. elegans and mouse models, as well as the African turquoise killifish. She has received an NIH Director Pioneer Award (2012) and a NARSAD Young Investigator Award (2009) for her outstanding research, and her contributions to the fields of aging and regeneration have been recognized and acknowledged with the receipt of the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine New Faculty Award and the Bennett J. Cohen Award for research in aging.
For more information and recent publications, check out her lab’s website.
Dr. Nipam Patel
William V. Power Endowed Chair in Biology; Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology; Integrative Biology at UC Berkeley
Development and evolution of arthropod diversity
Dr. Patel is the William V. Power Endowed Chair in Biology and is a professor in both the Molecular and Cell Biology and Integrative Biology departments at UC Berkeley. His lab studies the links between evolution and development, focusing on embryonic pattern formation in multiple model systems, including D. melanogaster and arthropods. His pioneering work on the role of Hox genes in body segmentation led to many accolades including HHMI investigator and a member of the NIH Developmental Biology Expert Panel. As well as serving on the editorial board for many journals, Dr. Patel was also co-director for the Woods Hole Embryology Course.
For more information and recent publications, check out his lab’s website.
Dr. Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado
Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at Stowers Institute for Medical Research
The developmental plasticity of the planarian Schmidtea mediterranea
Dr. Sánchez Alvarado is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at Stowers Institute for Medical Research. His lab seeks to identify and study the molecular components involved in metazoan regeneration using a freshwater planarian as a model system. He was named a National Academy of Sciences Kavli Fellow (2008) and an Ellison Medical Foundation Senior Scholar (2009) for his outstanding contributions to the understanding of the roles of Wnt signaling and chromatin-associated factors in regeneration. These honors are in addition to being a recipient of the National Institutes of Health MERIT Award (2009).
For more information and recent publications, check out his lab’s website.
Dr. Deborah Yelon
Herbert Stern Chair in Biology; Professor and Vice Chair of the Cell and Developmental Biology section of UC-San Diego’s Division of Biological Sciences
Sculpting the heart: Dynamic regulation of organ dimensions
Dr. Deborah Yelon is the Herbert Stern Chair in Biology Professor and Vice Chair of the Cell and Developmental Biology section of UC-San Diego’s Division of Biological Sciences. Her lab uses the unique arsenal of genetic and embryological techniques available in zebrafish to investigate the molecular mechanisms that control early heart morphogenesis. She began to study heart development in zebrafish with Didier Stainier at UC-San Francisco as a Life Sciences Research Foundation postdoctoral fellow. Since starting her lab in 2000, she has received Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career and American Heart Association Established Investigator Awards for her contributions to biology and the field of heart development.
For more information and recent publications, check out her lab’s website.
