The team will then develop mathematical models to predict which chemical exposures have the potential to harm a pregnant woman or her developing infant.
Biophysicist studies how cells self-assemble into 3-D spatially organized structures.
Botany researcher Dr. Robert Jansen and his colleagues have received a four-year, $2.4 million grant from the Plant Genome Program to investigate the genomes of the geranium plant and 15 related species.
Mutations in a gene known as “Fritz” may be responsible for causing human genetic disorders such as Bardet-Biedl syndrome, University of Texas at Austin developmental biologist John Wallingford and Duke University human geneticist and cell biologist Nicholas Katsanis have found.