Congratulations to Bridget Waas

Congratulations to Bridget Waas for being invited to present a seminar at Illinois State University in the Neuroscience and Physiology program on her thesis research, entitled, “Dual and Opposing Roles for KIF17 in Hedgehog-driven Cerebellar Development”. Congratulations Bridget!!

SHH-DEPENDENT SPECIFICATION OF THE VENTRAL NEURAL TUBE DURING MOUSE EMBRYOGENESIS

In the developing mouse neural tube, Sonic Hedgehog (Shh) is initially expressed in the notochord (NC) underlying the ventral neural tube; as development progresses, Shh auto-induces a secondary domain of Shh production within the floor plate (FP)  of the neural tube at the ventral midline.  Several lines of evidence indicate that Shh acts in a concentration dependent manner to specify all ventral cell types of…