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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