Jeffrey Hardin
Credentials: Integrative Biology Department
Position title: Morphogenesis and pattern formation during early development
Email: jdhardin@wisc.edu
Phone: (608) 262-9634
Address:
327 Noland Zoology Building
250 N Mills St
Madison, WI 53706
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FOCUS GROUPS:
Developmental Biology & Regenerative Medicine; Cell Adhesion & Cytoskeleton
RESEARCH DESCRIPTION:
Our laboratory studies the cellular and molecular mechanisms of cell adhesion and cell movements during embryonic development, using C. elegans as a model organism. We are interested in (1) the cellular and molecular mechanisms of cell rearrangement; (2) the cellular and molecular mechanisms of epithelial sheet sealing; and (3) the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying cadherin-based adhesion during morphogenesis. We use genetics, high resolution 4d imaging of tagged proteins in living embryos, biochemistry, and embryology to study these processes.