The main goal of the Zebrafish Consortium is to promote zebrafish research.
Created in February 2010, the Consortium offers excellent networking opportunities and peer support for active zebrafish laboratories.
Click here for Washington University’s active zebrafish laboratory.
DBFC currently includes the following labs (links provided are to their lab websites):
Zebrafish Facility Directors
• Lila Solnica-Krezel, PhD, WUSM
Research: Inductive and morphogenetic processes that establish and shape germ layers during vertebrate embryogenesis, using zebrafish and embryonic stem cell models – Website
• Martha Bagnall, PhD, WUSM
Research: Microcircuitry of sensory-motor transformations in the zebrafish – Website
• Geoffrey Goodhill, PhD, WUSM
Research: Brain development – Website
• Charles Kaufman, M.D., Ph.D., WUSM
Research: Understanding and modifying the mechanisms controlling the onset of melanoma cancer by integrating zebrafish models and human disease – Website
• Lavinia Sheets, Ph.D., WUSM
Research: Mechanisms of sensory hair-cell damage and repair – Website
• Mayssa Mokalled, Ph.D., WUSM
Research: Mechanisms of spinal cord regeneration after injury or disease – Website
• Amber Stratman, PhD, WUSM
Research: Mural cell development and behavior – Website
• Tony Tsai, MD, PhD, WUSM
Research: Embryo development – Website
Zebrafish Facility Investigators
• Luis F.Z. Batista, Ph.D., WUSM
Research: Understanding the importance of telomerase in human stem and progenitor cell function and regulation – Website
• Kyunghee Choi, PhD, WUSM
Research: Utilizing an in vitro differentiation model of embryonic stem (ES) cells and early mouse embryos to study the mechanisms by which blood (hematopoietic) and blood vessel (endothelial) cell lineage differentiation are regulated – Website
• John Cooper, MD, PhD, WUSM
Research: Molecular mechanisms of cell motility and cytoskeleton assembly – Website
• Joe Corbo, MD, PhD, WUSM
Research: Transcriptional regulatory networks in photoreceptor development, evolution, and disease – Website
• Sergej Djuranovic, Ph.D., WUSM
Research: Molecular mechanisms of translational control
• Christine Gurnett, MD, PhD, WUSM
Research:The genetic basis of musculoskeletal diseases affecting children, including scoliosis and limb contractures – Website
• Tim Holy, PhD, WUSM
Research: Neural mechanisms of pheromone detection, recognition, and olfactory learning; novel optical methods for recording neuronal activity – Website
• Kory Lavine, MD, PhD, WUSM
• Moe Mahjoub, PhD, WUSM
Research: Molecular mechanisms of centriole biogenesis and ciliogenesis, and their influence on cell division and differentiation – Website
• Colin Nichols, PhD, WUSM
Research: Ion channel biology in health and disease – Website
• Mike Nonet, PhD, WUSM
Research: Molecular genetic analysis of synaptic development and function – Website
• David Ornitz, MD, PhD, WUSM
Research: FGF signaling in cardiovascular, lung, skeletal, and inner ear development, injury response, and regeneration – Website
• Lauren Piccio, MD, PhD, WUSM
• Stephanie Paine-Saunders, PhD, Fontbonne University – Website
• Ting Wang, PhD, WUSM
Research: Genetic and epigenetic impact of transposable elements on gene regulatory networks – Website
• Mark Warchol, PhD, WUSM
Research: Mechanisms of development, injury and repair in the vertebrate auditory system – Website
If your lab is interested in joining the Consortium, please send an email to Lila Solnica-Krezel at Washington University School of Medicine at solnica@wustl.edu