Contact Info
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