Section of Developmental Biology Faculty
Bruce Appel, PhD
Section Head
Professor of Pediatrics
Diane G. Wallach Chair of Pediatrics Stem Cell Biology
Research Interests: Mechanisms of neural cell fate specification Appel Lab
Emily Bates, PhD
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Understanding how ion channels contribute to morphological development and microtubules are regulated for brain development
Peter Dempsey, PhD
Professor
Research Interests: Intestinal stem cell programming and differentiation, cellular plasticity, organoid models to study intestinal disease
Santos Franco, PhD
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Neural stem cell fate-specification, neurogenesis, cell migration and circuit formation in the developing brain. Franco Lab
Sean McGrath, PhD
Instructor
Research Interests: Human pluripotent stem cells and genome editing technologies
Jen McKey, PhD
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Ovary development and establishment of female fertility, with a special focus on the structural mechanisms that drive ovary regionalization in perinatal life, and how modulation of these mechanisms alters adult ovarian functions and female reproductive longevity. McKey Lab
Christian Mosimann, PhD
Associate Professor
Johnson Endowed Chair in Heart Developmental Research
Research Interests: Cell fate determination and cardiovascular lineage formation Mosimann Lab
Bradley Pawlikowski, PhD
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Research Interests: Investigating CNS fibroblasts in development and disease Siegenthaler Lab
Elle Roberson, PhD
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Cell communication regulating adult uterine remodeling and regeneration Roberson Lab
Charles Sagerström, PhD
Professor
Research Interests: Gene expression programs that drive embryogenesis Sagerström Lab
Stephen Santoro, PhD
Associate Professor
Research Interests: How experience sculpts the nervous system; neurogenesis; axon guidance; olfaction Santoro Lab
Julie Siegenthaler, PhD
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Development and function of the CNS vasculature and meninges Siegenthaler Lab
