The Department of Cell and Developmental Biology at the University of Michigan Medical School educates and trains undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-graduate students in the areas of cell biology, embryology, neurobiology, organogenesis and developmental biology. The history of the department is a fascinating one.
Congratulations To
- Michelle Durance, for a receiving a Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America Fellowship; "Effects of hedgehog signaling in mice on intestinal immune development."
- Yukiko Yamashita, for winning the 2009 annual Women in Cell Biology Junior Faculty award from the American Society for Cell Biology.
- J. Matthew Velkey, for winning four major teaching prizes at the University of Michigan for 2009.
- K. Sue O'Shea, for the honor of receiving the first ever Crosby-Kahn Endowed Collegiate Professorship in Cell and Developmental Biology
- Yukiko Yamashita, for acquiring the prestigious 2008 Searle Scholar Award
- Sean Morrison, for the 2008 Harland Winfield Mossman Award in Developmental Biology from the American Association of Anatomists
- Patrick Hu, for receiving a prestigious Sidney Kimmel Foundation for Cancer Research Scholar Award
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CDB in the News
- Carlos Hernandez and Jiandie Lin of the Medical School spoke with Science Daily about the discovery of a gene that affects insulin resistance in those with diets that are high in high-fructose corn syrup.
Faculty
Richard Altschuler
Kate Barald
Scott Barolo
Alphonse Burdi
Andrew Campbell
Walter Castelli
A. Kent Christensen
Marina Di Magliano
Andrzej Dlugosz
James Douglas Engel
Stephen Ernst
Xing Fan
Diane Fingar
Philip Gage
Roman Giger
Jun-Lin Guan
Deborah Gumucio
Zhe Han
Peter Hitchcock
Graham Rex Holland
Michael Hortsch
Tomonori Hosoya
Patrick Hu
Pentti Jokelainen
Sun-Kee Kim
Cheng-Yu Lee
Kim-Chew Lim
Jiandie Lin
Margaret Lomax
Ivan Maillard
James McNamara
Sean Morrison
Kentaro Nabeshima
Sue O'Shea
Billy Tsai
John Matt Velkey
Kristen Verhey
Lois Weisman
Deneen Wellik
Michael Welsh
Yukiko Yamashita
Bing Ye
Yuan Zhu