Origin and Development of the Vertebrate Traits

Speaker Profiles
Per E. Ahlberg
Marianne Bronner-Fraser
Scott E. Fraser
Philip Ingham
Patrick Lemaire
Nori Satoh
Christine Thisse
Sayuri Yonei / Koji Tamura
Shin Aizawa
Ann Burke
James Hanken
Shigeru Kuratani
Yasunori Murakami
Rich Schneider
Cheryll Tickle
H. Joseph Yost
Clare V. H. Baker
Michael J. Depew
Peter Holland
Thurston Lacalli
Filippo Rijli
Yoshiko Takahashi
Hiroshi Wada
Marianne Bronner-Fraser  

Marianne Bronner-Fraser received her Sc.B. in Biophysics from Brown University and her Ph.D. in Biophysics from Johns Hopkins University in 1979. She joined the faculty at University of California, Irvine, in 1980 and became a Full Professor in 1990 as well as co-director of the Developmental Biology Center. In 1996, she moved to the Division of Biology at Caltech where she is currently the Albert Billings Ruddock Professor of Biology. From 2001 to 2003, she was Chair of the Faculty at Caltech. Dr. Bronner-Fraser's research centers on the early formation of the nervous system in vertebrate embryos. Her laboratory focuses on how neural crest cells and placodes arose both in a developmental and evolutionary context. The aim is to unravel the molecular and cellular signals by which neural crest and placode cells form and evolve using a combination of embryological, molecular and genomic approaches.

Marianne Bronner-Fraser
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