Christopher Kintner

Chris Kintner completed his studies for a B.S. in Biochemistry and Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1976 and 1981, respectively. After working for several years as a Postdoctoral Fellow in laboratories at King’s College in London, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, he obtained an Assistant Professorship in the Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory of The Salk Institute for Biological Studies in 1987. In 1988, he was awarded both the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship and the McKnight Scholar Award. He was later appointed Associate Professor (1993-1998) and then to his current position as Professor in 1998, at the same institute. He also holds a concurrent position as Assistant Adjunct Professor in the University of California-San Diego’s Department of Neurosciences since 1989, and serves on the editorial boards of Development, Developmental Biology, and Molecular and Cellular Neurosciences.

Dr. Kintner’s group studies the molecular events that underlie cell fate determination and tissue patterning in the early Xenopus embryo. His laboratory has extensively analyzed the role of the Notch pathway in establishing cell fate during neurogenesis. More recently, his laboratory has studied the developmental mechanisms underlying the formation and polarization of ciliated cells.