Research Interests

Mesoderm patterning and heart development

Research Area

The work in our lab is focused on identifying the molecular networks that are essential for early heart development and how sex difference in these networks lead to sex disparities in heart disease. For these studies, we use a highly integrated approach that incorporates developmental, genetic, proteomic, biochemical and molecular based studies in mouse and stem cells. Recent advances and projects of interest in the Conlon lab include studies that define the cellular and molecular events that lead to cardiac septation, those that explore cardiac interaction networks as determinants of transcriptional specificity, the mechanism and function of cardiac transcriptional repression networks, and the regulatory networks of cardiac morphogenesis.

Current Members

Conlon, Frank L (Principal Investigator/Director)

Alumni

Amin, Nirav M (Post-doc)
Showell, Chris (Post-doc)
Tandon, Panna (Post-doc)
Kuchenbrod, Lauren M. (Technician)
Binder, Olav (Graduate Student)
Paden, Erika L. (Graduate Student)
Waldron, Lauren K. (Graduate Student)

Contact

Institution: University of North Carolina

Address:
Department of Genetics
University of North Carolina
220 Fordham Hall
Medical Drive
Chapel Hill, NC
27599-3280, USA

Web Page: https://www.conlon-lab.com

General/Lab Fax: 919-843-3399