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The Nachury Lab is interested in using a combination of interdisciplinary approaches encompassing protein biochemistry, cell biology, in vitro assays, digital microscopy and mammalian cell engineering to study the molecular etiology of complex hereditary human diseases.<br> | The Nachury Lab is interested in using a combination of interdisciplinary approaches encompassing protein biochemistry, cell biology, in vitro assays, digital microscopy and mammalian cell engineering to study the molecular etiology of complex hereditary human diseases.<br> | ||
Our lab is part of the department of [http://mcp.stanford.edu/ Molecular and Cellular Physiology] and [http://med.stanford.edu/ Stanford University School of Medicine].<br> | Our lab is part of the department of [http://mcp.stanford.edu/ Molecular and Cellular Physiology] and [http://med.stanford.edu/ Stanford University School of Medicine].<br> | ||
A major focus of the lab is the study of the primary cilium, a once-obscure cellular organelle that | A major focus of the lab is the study of the primary cilium, a once-obscure cellular organelle that has been "re-discovered" for its role in a number of signaling pathways (hedgehog, PDGF, Wnt,..). Most fascinatingly, defects in cilium biogenesis lead to a variety of human disorders such as retinal degeneration, kidney cysts, obesity, polydactyly, randomization of left-right asymmetry, etc. | ||
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