Biology Seminar Series - Crystal Rogers “Making the cells that make the face: Neural crest. . . "

"Making the cells that make the face: Neural crest cell development across species"

Dr. Crystal Rogers is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anatomy, Physiology, and Cell Biology at UC Davis. Dr. Rogers received her PhD from Georgetown University with Dr. Elena Silva Casey and did her postdoctoral work with Dr. Marianne Bronner at Caltech. The Rogers’ Lab studies the molecular mechanisms that control the formation, migration, and differentiation of cranial neural crest cells. Their goal is to identify the roles of transcription factors and cell adhesion molecules in regulating neural crest cell development across species with an aim to define both conserved and divergent mechanisms that make the cells that make the face.