Bridging functional genomics, experimental embryology, comparative anatomy, and paleontology, our research seeks to answer long-standing and classical questions of vertebrate evolution. Our long-term research goal is to reveal and understand the evolutionary and developmental mechanisms of the fish diversity and its contribution to vertebrate major transitions. As new genomic and imaging technologies extend their utility to model and non-model organisms alike, these fundamental problems become within our reach.
Program Faculty
- Tetsuya Nakamura
- Assistant Professor
- Department: Department of Genetics
- Graduate Program(s): Cell and Developmental Biology
- Major Research Interest(s): Developmental Biology, Evolution, Gene regulation
- Research Techniques: Bioinformatics / Computational, Genetics, Genomics, Imaging
- Research Organism(s): Zebrafish
- Rotation Faculty
- Phone: 1.8484457191
- Email:
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- Division of Life Sciences
- Life Sciences Building, Room 224
- 145 Bevier Road
- Piscataway, NJ 08854
- Key Words: Functional genomics, vertebrate evolution
- Lab Site URL
- News Items: How Did Hands Evolve? The Answer Is Behind You.