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Jeffrey Farrell, Early Stadtman Investigator and Assistant Professor, Division of Developmental Biology, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, presents "Cell States and Cell Fates During Zebrafish Development".
Dr. Farrell received a B.A. in Biochemistry from Columbia University in 2006. He performed his graduate work at the University of California, San Francisco in the lab of Patrick O’Farrell. There, he found that the dramatic slow-down of DNA replication at the Drosophila mid-blastula transition was triggered by regulated proteolysis of Cdc25 and a resultant drop in Cdk1 activity. Dr. Farrell then performed his postdoctoral work in the lab of Alexander Schier at Harvard University (in deep collaboration with the lab of Aviv Regev at the Broad Institute). There, he worked on developing and applying single-cell RNAseq approaches for studying developmental biology, including one of the first approaches for spatial inference from single-cell RNAseq data (Seurat), an approach to find transcriptional trajectories during development (URD), and one of the first whole-embryo single-cell RNAseq developmental atlases. His post-doctoral work was featured as part of Science’s 2018 Breakthrough of the Year. In 2020, Dr. Farrell started as an Earl Stadtman Investigator at NICHD, where he heads the Unit on Cell Specification and Differentiation.
Host: Celina Juliano (cejuliano@ucdavis.edu)