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| Richard Fehon is an Associate
Professor of Biology at Duke University. After completing
his PhD with Gerold Schubiger at the University of Washington
in Seattle, he moved to Yale for postdoctoral work with
Spyros Artavanis-Tsakonas. At Yale, he studied functions
of the Notch pathway and demonstrated that Notch physically
interacts with Delta to form a receptor-ligand complex.
Since moving to Duke in 1992, where his laboratory began
studying specialized membrane domains in epithelial cells,
including intercellular junctions, his work has led to
the identification of several novel components of the
septate junction, and has contributed to the recent realization
that this junction is homologous to the vertebrate paranodal
septate junction in myelinated neurons. His laboratory
has also elucidated the role of membrane-associated proteins
in the apical membrane domain in regulating cell proliferation
and epithelial integrity. |
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