Current Projects

	John Klingensmith, Ph.D (principle investigator) Molecular genetics of vertebrate development and birth defects
	Murim Choi (graduate student, UPGG) BMP antagonists in heart development
	Yu-Ping Yang (graduate student, UPGG) Molecular genetics of neural induction and head formation; and characterizing the mouse embryonic organizer
	Laura Yudt (graduate student, CMB) Functional studies of an novel organizer/axial midline gene, cordon-bleu
	Andrew Ravanelli (graduate student, DBTP) Characterization of the novel gene cordon-bleu in Zebrafish; Molecular mechanisms of craniofacial development and associated birth defects, including holoprosencephaly (HPE) and exencephaly
	Naoki Mine, Ph.D. (postdoctoral fellow) left/right axis determination in the early mouse embryo. Role of Shh in the heart.
	Jie Chen (undergraduate) Spatial and temporal anlysis of Cobl in Zebrafish

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