BioFrontiers Seminar Speaker Dr. Ellen Ezratty | Department of Biological Sciences

BioFrontiers Seminar Speaker Dr. Ellen Ezratty

Friday, February 9, 2018 - 15:00
Life Science Building A117 3:00 p.m.

Join us as we Welcome, to the UNT Spring 2018 BioFrontiers Seminar Series: Dr. Ellen Ezratty Assistant Professor of Pathology & Cell Biology in Dermatology at Columbia University.

Presentation: "Signaling Through Primary Cilia: How Stem Cells Find Their Place in the Skin"

Education & Training

  • BS, Pennsylvania State University
  • PhD, Columbia University

Research

One fundamental question in developmental and stem cell biology is how an individual cell may sense its environment to transmit extracellular signals that control cell signaling and proliferation during tissue morphogenesis, homeostasis and regeneration. The activation of cell signaling pathways must be temporally and spatially regulated in order to balance tissue growth with differentiation. When this goes awry during normal tissue homeostasis, proliferative conditions such as polycystic kidney disease (PKD) and cancer arise. The long-term objective of my research is to understand how primary cilia temporally and spatially regulate cell signaling and proliferation in tissue stem cells.