Current research
Our research is highly diverse and includes topics ranging from embryogenesis, cell reprogramming and organogenesis to aging and stem cell engineering.
Our ongoing and future work will focus on new and emerging areas of developmental biology, such as epigenetics and genomics.
Model systems
We house one of the largest zebrafish facilities in the world. Along with zebrafish (D. rerio), we study several other model systems, including the fruit fly (D. melanogaster), nematode (C. elegans) and mouse (M. musculus), as well as tissue culture systems and embryonic stem cells.
Latest news
Geoffrey Goodhill’s New Publication
Congratulations to Geoffrey Goodhill’s Lab on their recent publication! Cellular geometry and epithelial-mesenchymal plasticity intersect with PIEZO1 in breast cancer cells So CL, Robitaille M, Sadras F, McCullough MH, Milevskiy MJG, Goodhill GJ, Roberts-Thomson SJ, Monteith GR. Commun Biol. 2024 Apr 17;7(1):467. PMID: 38632473
Thor Theunissen’s New Publication
Congratulations to Thor Theunissen’s Lab on their recent publication! iPSC-based modeling of preeclampsia identifies epigenetic defects in extravillous trophoblast differentiation Morey R, Bui T, Cheung VC, Dong C, Zemke JE, Requena D, Arora H, Jackson MG, Pizzo D, Theunissen TW, Horii M. iScience. 2024 Mar 25;27(4):109569. PMID: 38623329
Samantha Morris’s New Publication
Congratulations to Samantha Morris’s Lab on their recent publication! Stem cell dynamics and cellular heterogeneity across lineage subtypes of castrate resistant prostate cancer Beshiri ML, Capaldo BJ, Lake R, Ku AT, Burner D, Tice CM, Tran C, Kostas J, Alilin AN, Yin JJ, Agarwal S, Morris SA, Karzai FH, Lotan TL, Dahut WL, Sowalsky AG, Kelly […]