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Contact Info
Office: 4108 Plant Sciences Bldg
Phone: 301-405-3914
Leslie Pick
Professor, Department of Entomology

Research Interests

  • Study the regulatory genes and pathways that control embryonic development
  • Evolution of the Hox gene, which has undergone changes in both its expression pattern and protein sequence to switch its function from an ancestral homeotic gene to a segmentation gene in Drosophila
  • Modeling diseases of insulin-signaling pathways in Drosophila

Education

  • Ph.D., Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1986
  • B.A., Wesleyan University, Psychology/Biology Joint Major, 1977

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