Stem Cells & Regenerative Biology

Craig Crews

The Crews lab designs and develops small molecules to control cellular systems, and interrogates regeneration in the axolotl. 

Valentina Greco

The goal of the Greco lab is to define how tissues maintain themselves throughout the course of our lives in the face of continuous cellular turnover, frequent insults, and spontaneous mutations. 

Valerie Horsley 

The Horsley lab investigates the cellular and molecular mechanisms that control tissue development and regeneration, using the skin and mammary gland as model systems. 

Diane Kraus

The goal of the Kraus lab is to define how stem and progenitor cells balance and regulate fate decisions in health and disease. 

Jun Lu

The Lu lab is interested in noncoding and epigenetic regulation of hematopoeisis and cancer. 

In-Hyun Park

The Park lab uses induced pluripotent stem cells to investigate genetic and epigenetic regulation of reprogramming, and human neurodevelopmental disease.

Zachary Smith

The Smith lab is interested in how covalent modifications to chromatin are coordinated to control organismal phenotype epigenetically, including possible impacts of the fetal environment. 

Berna Sozen

The Sozen lab studies fundamental principles that regulate phenotypic, metabolic, and morphogenetic processes in early embryonic patterning; and, the causal mechanisms when these dynamic processes go awry. 

Kaelyn Sumigray

The overarching goal of the Sumigray lab is to understand how niche architecture affects stem cell tissue and function, activity, and maturation in the intestine.

Josien Van Wolfswinkel

The Van Wolfswinkel lab combines molecular, cell biological, genetic, proteomic, and computational methods to study the regulation of planarian pluripotent stem cells, with a particular interest in the regulatory roles of non-coding RNA in planarian stem cell biology.