Office of Research Seminar Series

Hidden just below the surface: latent morphogenetic potential and change in form

In this talk, Dr. Matthew Harris will detail current work detailing how development can potentiate changes in skeletal form and function through forward genetic and genomic analysis of adult skeletal form.

Presenter

Matthew Harris, PhD
Associate Professor of Genetics
Harvard Medical School
Orthopaedic Research Laboratories, Boston Children's Hospital

Dr. Harris specializes in comparative genetics and genomics focusing on the regulation of skeletogenesis and form. His work uses experimental models of vertebrate development, centering on the zebrafish as a platform for discovery of novel gene functions in development. Similarly, through comparative genomic approaches, his group identifies genetic networks regulating unique properties of development exposed through natural selection. Dr. Harris trained in the lab of Dr. John Fallon at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and with Dr. Christiane Nuesslein-Volhard at the Max-Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tuebingen, Germany.