Organ development expert set for Discovery Lecture
Gail Martin, Ph.D., professor of Anatomy at the University of California, San Francisco, will deliver the next Discovery Lecture on Thursday, April 12.
Her presentation, “FGF signaling in vertebrate organogenesis: how Sprouty genes help to get it right,” will begin at 4 p.m. in 208 Light Hall.
Gail Martin, Ph.D.
Martin’s laboratory studies the mechanisms that control the early steps in organ development in the vertebrate embryo. Her group has used genetic strategies in mice to study how the Fibroblast Growth Factor (FGF) family of signaling molecules regulates the early development of the brain, kidney, limbs, lungs and other organs.
Martin received her Ph.D. in molecular biology from the University of California, Berkeley and completed postdoctoral research at University College, London. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences and has served as president of the Society for Developmental Biology.
In 2011, she received an honorary Doctorate of Science from University College, London and the FASEB Excellence in Science Award. She was awarded the Pearl Meister Greengard Prize in 2007 and the E.G. Conklin Medal in 2002.
The Department of Pediatrics is sponsoring Martin’s lecture. For a complete schedule of the Discovery Lecture series and archived video of previous lectures, go to www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/discoveryseries.