Welcome to Ushiki lab @ Department of Genetics
Starting January 2025 recruiting lab members!
What’s new?
- We are accepting rotation students starting in January. Aki will be attending the DRSCB and MGG retreats and feel free to talk to her.
- Aki presented her future research project at the NIH Facebase meeting.
- Ushiki lab website open!
Enhancers are non-coding gene regulatory elements that regulate the spatial and temporal specificity of gene expression.
Our lab’s goal is to understand the function of enhancers in placental and skeletal development, disease, and evolution using functional genomics and mouse genetics.
–Questions
Over 90% of disease-associated variants identified in Genome-wide Association Studies (GWAS) are located in non-coding regions. How do these mutations contribute to disease development?
Mammalian limb skeletal structure displays remarkable diversity across species. Which gene regulatory elements are responsible for these species-specific differences?
