The Rogers Lab
Lab: Veterinary Medicine 3B, 3rd Floor
Office: Veterinary Medicine 3B, 4th Floor
Phone: 530.752.6181
Lab: Veterinary Medicine 3B, 3rd Floor
Office: Veterinary Medicine 3B, 4th Floor
Phone: 530.752.6181
Neural crest cells are a population of stem-like cells that originate in the dorsal neural tube and are able to migrate out of the neural tube to distant sites in the developing embryo where they differentiate into diverse derivatives such as craniofacial bone and cartilage, pigment cells, and the neurons and glia of the peripheral nervous system.
Our lab studies the molecular mechanisms that control the formation of cranial neural crest cells and the process that neural crest cells use to leave the neural tube and separate from each other (the epithelial to mesenchymal transition-EMT). Our lab uses both chicken and axolotl embryos as research organisms to model human congenital defects related to neural crest development. Our goal is to understand the molecular mechanisms that drive normal development, and to identify environmental exposures that can alter this process.
Our lab studies the molecular mechanisms that control the formation of cranial neural crest cells and the process that neural crest cells use to leave the neural tube and separate from each other (the epithelial to mesenchymal transition-EMT). Our lab uses both chicken and axolotl embryos as research organisms to model human congenital defects related to neural crest development. Our goal is to understand the molecular mechanisms that drive normal development, and to identify environmental exposures that can alter this process.
