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| Ann Burke received her PhD in the Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Department at Harvard University in 1989. There she worked on the development and evolution of the turtle body plan, in the lab of the late Pere Alberch, one of the central players in the revitalization of the study of evolutionary developmental biology. She continued to pursue various aspects of vertebrate body plan development and evolution, first as a Killam Postdoctoral Fellow with Brian K. Hall at Dalhousie University, and then with Clifford Tabin at Harvard Medical School, Department of Genetics. In the Tabin lab she began her work on comparative expression of Hox genes during anterior-posterior (AP) axial patterning in vertebrates. In 1996 she took a position as assistant professor in the Biology Department at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. There she continued experimental work on the chick embryo, looking at regional differences in the somitic mesoderm along the AP axis. In 1999 she moved to Wesleyan University where she is now Associate Professor. Her lab focuses on regionalization of patterning information in the embryonic mesoderm, and the interface between somitic and lateral plate mesoderm in a wide range of vertebrate embryos including lamprey, skate, zebrafish, mouse, turtle, alligator and chick. |
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