Mansi srivastava nominations committee
An Interview with Mansi Srivastava - PubMed.
Mansi srivastava nominations committee
Mansi Srivastava
Faculty Support: Patricia Fuentes-Cross
Most animals are able to repair wounds and many can regenerate extensively, re-growing organs or even entire body plans from small fragments.
Very little is known about how wounding results in repair and/or regeneration, or whether these mechanisms are similar across diverse animal species. We are taking an integrative approach for studying the wound response and stem cell biology during regeneration in an evolutionary framework by using a broad range of techniques including transcriptional profiling and lineage tracing.
We have developed the three-banded panther worm, Hofstenia miamia, as a new model acoel species for studies of regeneration. Acoels are likely to be the earliest lineage of animals with bilateral symmetry (bilaterians), and are therefore phylogenetically well-placed to inform questions about the evolution of regenerative mechanisms.
Studies of Wnt and Bmp signaling pathways