Current Research Groups
- Chourrout Group - Molecular Genetics of Protochordates
Builds and exploits genome data to gain insight into the evolution of chordate development, with focus on Tunicates. Uses the model organism Oikopleura dioica for studies of developmental mechanisms. Additional studies are performed on developmental genes in the Atlantic Salmon. - Thompson Group - Chromatin and Gene Expression
Focuses on the study of gene function and regulation in the epithelium which secretes the animal house. This epithelium is made of multiple compartments of few large and differentiated cells, each of which synthesises a set of house proteins. - Jiang Group - Ascidian notochord morphogenesis
Focuses on the study of ascidian notochord morphogenesis using cellular, genetic and biochemical approaches. - Lenhard Group - Bioinformatics of Transcription and Transcriptional
Gene Regulation
Studies eukaryotic gene regulation and genome organization by computational methods, with focus on long-range regulatory interactions and their effect on genome structure and evolution. - Adamska Group - Developmental Signalling in Marine Sponges
Studies intercellular communication during development of sponges, the most basal multicellular animals. - Rentzsch Group - Neural development in Cnidaria
Uses molecular, biochemical and transgenic approaches to study neural development and differentiation in Cnidaria, one of the oldest animal phyla possesing a nervous system. - Hejnol Group - Comparative Developmental Biology of Animals
Studies a broad range of animal taxa using morphological and molecular tools to unravel the evolution and development of animal organ systems. - Suster Group - Genetic Dissection of Circuits Controlling
Vertebrate Locomotion
Patterned motor tasks such as swimming in fish and walking in humans are the basis of a wide array of behaviors across the animal kingdom. Our group is interested in understanding how such behaviors are generated and controlled by specialized neuronal circuits distributed in the brain and spinal cord. - Hausen Group - Cell Type and Organ System Evolution in Bilaterian Animals
Page currently under construction. - Glover Associate Group - Appendicularian Neural Development
Studies regional patterning, neuronal differentiation and synapse formation in developing vertebrate motor circuits, as well as spinal cord regeneration and the neurogenic potential of adult human somatic stem cells.
