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Jongmin Kim
Chemical and Systems Biology
Bio-X SIGF Fellow 2011/2012
Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Fellow
Professor Margaret Fuller (Developmental Biology)
Most of our tissues are constantly replenished by tissue specific adult stem cells. The goal of Jongmin’s research is to understand how the switch from prolif-eration to differentiation in adult stem cell lineages is regulated. He has developed an in vivo differentiation system that can trigger proliferating progenitor cells to synchronously differentiate in the male germ line of fruit flies. By employing this differentiation assay, he will identify genes critical for the switch and will determine how those genes are regulated. Under-standing this switch will be important in regenerative medicine and cancer therapy. |
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