Origin and Development of the Vertebrate Traits

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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
H. Joseph Yost  
H. Joseph Yost received his Ph. D. in 1987 from the University of Chicago for his work under Susan Lindquist on heat shock proteins and RNA processing in Drosophila and budding yeast. After a postdoctoral stint in the Lindquist lab, he took a position as an NIH research fellow in John Gerhart's lab at the University of California at Berkeley , where he remained until 1991. He then moved to the University of Minnesota as an assistant professor, later becoming an associate professor at the same institution. He moved to the University of Utah in 1997, where he currently serves as Professor of Oncological Sciences and Director of the Huntsman Cancer Institute Center for Children. Research interests in his lab include left-right developmental genetics in Xenopus , zebrafish and mouse, control of cell behavior by proteoglycans, cancer genetics and genomics. H. Joseph Yost
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