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Katharine (Kate) Lewis . Associate Professor
KEL36@cam.ac.uk

Specification and patterning of spinal cord interneurons; Formation of functional neuronal circuitry; Evolution of spinal cord patterning and function; Dorsal-ventral neural tube patterning; zebrafish development.

Education:
Ph.D., University College London,1998
Postdoc,
University of Oregon, 1999 - 2003

RESEARCH

Kate Lewis is currently at the University of Cambridge, UK. She will be joining our faculty in July 2010. For information on her research programme and possible projects please see her current lab web page.

 Lewis Research: http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/lewis/

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Cerda, G.A., Hargrave, M., and Lewis, K.E. (2009) RNA profiling of FAC-sorted neurons from the developing zebrafish spinal cord. Dev. Dyn.. 238(1):150-161.

Wotton,K., Weierud F., Dietrich, S. and Lewis, K. E. (2008) Comparative genomics of Lbx loci reveals conservation of identical Lbx ohnologs in bony vertebrates. BMC Evolutionary Biology 8:171.

Batista, M.F., and Lewis, K.E. (2008) Pax2/8 act redundantly to specify glycinergic and GABAergic fates of multiple spinal interneurons. Dev. Biol.. 323(1):88-97

Batista, M.F., Jacobstein, J., and Lewis, K.E. (2008) Zebrafish V2 cells develop into excitatory CiD and Notch signalling dependent inhibitory VeLD interneurons. Dev. Biol.. 322(2):263-275.

Lupo,G., Harris,W.A. and Lewis, K.E. (2006) Mechanisms of ventral patterning in the vertebrate nervous system. Nature Reviews Neuroscience. 7:103-114..

Lewis, K.E. (2006) How do genes regulate simple behaviours? Understanding how different neurons in the vertebrate spinal cord are genetically specified.. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci.. 361(1465):45-66.

 

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