Alejo E. Rodriguez-Fraticelli

Head of the Lab of Quantitative Stem Cell Dynamics at IRB Barcelona

Mechanisms of Epithelial Morphogenesis


During my PhD, I have worked on how 3D cues (cell confinement, extracellular matrix composition) translate into changes in gene expression and cell architecture to promote epithelial morphogenesis. As model systems, I used zebrafish and organotypic 3D-MDCK cultures.