University of California, Berkeley
Dept. of Integrative Biology
3060 VLSB #3140
Berkeley, CA 94720-3140
Lab phone: 510/643-6227
Fax: 510/643-5022
Email: bmuniyappa@berkeley.edu
I am interested in signaling between the ectoderm and the mesoderm during segmentation in arthropods. To learn more about the signaling pathways involved in this process, I am currently treating the arthropod Parhyale hawaiensis with drugs that inhibit specific pathways. The TGF-B and FGF pathways were chosen because they are important for mesodermal-ectodermal interactions in the highly derived arthropod Drosophila melanogaster. My ultimate goal is to characterize the phenotypes from the disruption of the TGF-B and FGF pathways in Parhyale, both morphologically and molecularly.
Education
University of California, Berkeley
B.A., Molecular and Cell Biology, Genetics (prospective)
NIPAM H. PATEL