Current Duke Appointments & Affiliations
Professor of Cell Biology
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2024 - Present
Cell Biology,
Basic Science Departments
Professor in Orthopaedic Surgery
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2024 - Present
Orthopaedic Surgery,
Clinical Science Departments
Affiliate of the Duke Regeneration Center
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2021 - Present
Duke Regeneration Center,
Basic Science Departments
Recent Scholarly Works
Decaying and expanding Erk gradients process memory of skeletal size during zebrafish fin regeneration.
Journal article Nat Phys · August 24, 2026 Amputated salamander limbs or fish fins precisely regenerate to their pre-injury size, providing a paradigm for positional memory. Although this phenomenon has been appreciated for centuries, how position-dependent cues control tissue growth remains unreso ... Full text Link to item CiteZebrafish knock-in lines enabling live visualization of extracellular matrix dynamics during development and regeneration.
Journal article Development · August 15, 2026 Extracellular matrix (ECM) plays fundamental roles in animal development, regeneration and disease. The difficulty of tagging endogenous matrix proteins in vertebrates has limited the understanding of ECM composition and dynamics in complex tissues. To vis ... Full text Link to item CiteRapid transcriptional response to a dynamic morphogen by time integration.
Journal article Curr Biol · June 8, 2026 During development, cells must interpret extracellular signals with speed and accuracy. While morphogen gradients pattern tissues, how cells respond to dynamic morphogens remains unclear. Here, we investigate how dorsal patterning in the Drosophila embryo ... Full text Link to item CiteRecent Grants
Genetics and Genomics Training Grant
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2026 - 2031Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Training Grant
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2026 - 2031Cell and Molecular Biology Training Program
Inst. Training Prgm or CMECo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Institute of General Medical Sciences · 2026 - 2031View All Grants
Education
Rockefeller University ·
2009
Ph.D.