Yevgenya Grinblat
Credentials: Professor
Position title: Developmental Biology, Genetics/Genomics, Neuroscience
Email: ygrinblat@wisc.edu
Phone: 608-265-3219
Address:
219 iBio Research Building
- Research Areas
- Developmental Biology, Genetics/Genomics, Neuroscience
Research Areas
Developmental Biology, Genetics/Genomics, Neuroscience
Research Interests
- Genetic control of cranial morphogenesis in vertebrate embryos.
- Modeling frontonasal dysplasia, coloboma and holoprosencephaly in zebrafish.
- Gene/environment interactions during cranial morphogenesis.
- Modeling genetic predisposition to fetal alcohol toxicity in zebrafish.
Recent publications
- Santistevan, N. J., et al. (2022) A forward genetic screen identifies a novel role for cacna2d3 in vertebrate habituation learning and startle threshold. PLoS ONE 17(7): e0270903. PMID: 35834485
- Yoon, B., et al. (2022). Zebrafish models of Alx-linked frontonasal dysplasia reveal a role for Alx1 and Alx3 in the anterior segment and vasculature of the developing eye. Biology Open PMID: 35142342
- Pini, J., et al. (2020). ALX1-related Frontonasal Dysplasia Results From Defective Neural Crest Cell Development and Migration. EMBO Molecular Medicine, 12:e12013. PMID: 32914578
- Grinblat, Y. & Lipinski, R. J. (2019). A forebrain undivided: Unleashing model organisms to solve the mysteries of holoprosencephaly. Dev Dyn, 248(8), 626-633. PMID: 30993762
- Sedykh, I., et al. (2018) Zebrafish Rfx4 controls dorsal and ventral midline formation in the neural tube. Dev Dyn 247, 650-659. PMCID: PMC5854527
- Sedykh, I., et al. (2017). “Zebrafish zic2 controls formation of periocular neural crest and choroid fissure morphogenesis.” Dev Biol 429, 92-104. PMID: 28689736
Teaching:
- Zoology 555 – Laboratory in Developmental Biology
- Zoology 655 – Modeling Neurodevelopmental Disease
- Neuroscience 765 – Developmental Neuroscience