Areas of Research in Cell and Developmental Biology

• Mechanisms of intracellular membrane trafficking
• Physiological regulation of the secretory pathway
• Regulation of cell motility
• Subcellular imaging
• Biogenesis of organelles and membrane compartments
• Programmed cell death
• Cell fate determination
• Embryonic development of multicellular animals
• Signal transduction and cytoskeletal organization
• Tissue morphogenisis
• Gene regulatory networks
• Early embryo patterning
• Evolutionary developmental biology
• Genomes and genomics