Section of Developmental Biology Faculty
Bruce Appel, PhD
Section Head
Professor of Pediatrics
Diane G. Wallach Chair of Pediatric Stem Cell Biology
Research Interests: Mechanisms of neural cell fate specification and myelination
Appel Lab
Emily Bates, PhD
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Understanding how ion channels contribute to morphological development and microtubules are regulated for brain development
www.emilybateslab.org
Alexa Burger, PhD
Associate Research Professor
Research Interests: Gene regulation in mesoderm patterning and congenital disease
www.mosimannlab.org
Peter Dempsey, PhD
Professor
Research Interests: Intestinal stem cell programming and differentiation, cellular
plasticity, organoid models to study intestinal disease
Caleb Doll, PhD
Assistant Research Professor
Research Interests: Subcellular regulation of mRNA in myelin sheath development
Biographical information
Santos Franco, PhD
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Neural stem cell fate-specification, neurogenesis, cell migration and circuit formation in the developing brain
www.francolabcu.org
Sean McGrath, PhD
Instructor
Research Interests: Human pluripotent stem cells and genome editing technologies
Christian Mosimann, PhD
Associate Professor
Johnson Endowed Chair in Heart Developmental Research
Research Interests: Cell fate determination and cardiovascular lineage formation
www.mosimannlab.org
Bradley Pawlikowski, PhD
Assistant Research Professor
Research Interests: Investigating CNS fibroblasts in development and disease
Siegenthaler Lab
Charles Sagerström, PhD
Professor
Research Interests: Gene expression programs that drive embryogenesis
www.sagerstromlab.org
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
Kelly Sullivan, PhD
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Interferon signaling in Down syndrome
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.
http://www.mckeylab.com
Elle Roberson, PhD
Assistant Professor
Research interests: Cell communication regulating adult uterine remodeling and regeneration
www.therobersonlab.org
Xiuqing Wei, PhD
Research Instructor
Research Interest: Modeling human pancreatic beta cells with embryonic pluripotent stem cells and functional genomics.
Han Zhu, PhD
Assistant Professor
Research Interest: Integrating functional genomics tools and human pluripotent stem cell-derived β-cell organoid models to elucidate gene regulatory mechanisms governing β-cell formation and survival.