Professor, Department of Craniofacial Biology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
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Neuroscience Colloquium Seminar Series
Department of Neuroscience, School of Mind, Brain & Behavior
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The Artinger lab is a highly collaborative research laboratory that is focused on understanding the molecular and genetic mechanisms involved in the development of the neural crest. Neural crest cells are born at the neural plate border, and have the extraordinary ability to retain stem cell-like characteristics. Once specified, they migrate through the embryo and give rise to a diverse array of derivatives, including peripheral neurons and glia, pigment cells and craniofacial cartilage, which form most of the vertebrate face. Thus, the neural crest is an attractive model system to study the gene regulatory networks involved in cell fate determination, migration, differentiation and in disease.