CU Craniofacial Bio

Congratulations to Departmental faculty Dr. Kristin Watt @wattlab.bsky.social on winning the H.W. Mossman Award in Developmental Biology through the American Association for Anatomy @anatomyorg.bsky.social!

Congratulations to Erin Binne, who won the Outstanding Laboratory Research Service Professionals Award through the CU Anschutz School of Dental Medicine!

We are currently seeking to hire a new faculty member at the rank of Associate Professor or Professor to join our collegial, research-intensive Department. Job posting: cu.taleo.net/careersectio...

PDGFRα/β heterodimer activation negatively affects downstream ERK1/2 signaling and cellular proliferation Nature Communications - Here they show that heterodimerization of the receptor tyrosine kinases PDGFRa and PDGFRb negatively affects downstream ERK1/2 signaling and cellular proliferation, due in...

Delighted to share our updated work, led by postdoctoral fellow Dr. Maria Campaña, published in @natcomms.nature.com: rdcu.be/em66g, PDGFRalpha/beta heterodimer activation negatively affects downstream ERK1/2 signaling and cellular proliferation

The Dept was well represented at the Rocky Mountain RNA Symposium today! Congratulations to student Camille Goo and postdoc @ecbrooks96.bsky.social on their poster awards and students Cassie Minne and @graceinsci.bsky.social on their honorable mentions. @wattlab.bsky.social @fantauzzolab.bsky.social

The Department of Craniofacial Biology has a new Vice Chair: Dr. Katherine Fantauzzo @fantauzzolab.bsky.social!

Join us on Friday, May 16th for a symposium honoring the scientific career of our colleague Dr. Mary Reyland.

Promising New Research Shows Potential to Cure Recurrent Urinary Tract Infections Promising new research shows potential to cure recurrent urinary tract infections through the use of a nanogel.

Department faculty member Dr. Devatha Nair and postdoctoral fellow Dr. Humberto Escobedo are co-authors on new research using nanogels as a drug delivery vehicle for treating UTIs: news.cuanschutz.edu/news-stories...

Tomorrow is School of Dental Medicine Research Day at @cuanschutz.bsky.social! The event will feature keynote talks from Drs. Effie Ioannidou and David Johnsen, talks from trainees and faculty, and a poster session.

Figure 3 (A) The smb mutant is epistatic to lof. Heterozygous smb adults were crossed to heterozygous lof adults and adult offspring were imaged with transmitted light. The dorsal fin and anal fin are indicated in the wild-type (wt) animal. An asterisk indicates an absent dorsal fin, a caret indicates elongated fins, and guillemets indicate an anal fin that is reduced in the AP axis but elongated in the proximodistal axis in smb;lof double heterozygous mutants (wt=8, smb=4, lof=8, smb;lof=5, expected=6.5 per genotype. Chi-square test; P=0.5641). (B) Nomarski images of fin induction and mesenchyme aggregation in wild type and smb heterozygotes at 5.8 mm SL (n=3 per genotype). Arrowhead indicates fin bud mesenchyme, asterisk marks absent fin bud.

The sclerotome is the source of the dorsal and anal fin skeleton and its expansion is required for median fin development

Read this #OpenAccess Research Article by Raisa Bailon-Zambrano, James Nichols @cu-cfb.bsky.social and colleagues:
https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.203025

PDGFRα signaling regulates Srsf3 transcript binding to affect PI3K signaling and endosomal trafficking Upon PDGFRα signaling in mouse embryonic palatal mesenchyme cells, Srsf3 exhibits differential transcript binding, resulting in retention of the receptor in early endosomes and increased downstream PI...

Delighted to share our updated work, led by former @molbcu.bsky.social student Thomas Forman, out now in @elife.bsky.social: elifesciences.org/articles/98531, PDGFRa signaling regulates Srsf3 transcript binding to affect PI3K signaling and endosomal trafficking

We are currently looking to hire a new faculty member (open rank) to join our collegial, research-intensive Department. Job posting: cu.taleo.net/careersectio...

Hello, Bluesky! We are the Department of Craniofacial Biology @cuanschutz.bsky.social, composed of 11 laboratories studying craniofacial developmental biology, oral cancer biology and dental biomaterials.