February 3, 2017
Congratulations to Katie Farley! Today she was awarded the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Predoctoral Fellowship (F31) from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research. Her proposal is titled “PAX9, RIBOSOME BIOGENESIS, AND CONGENITAL DISEASE,” which seeks to better understand PAX9’s role in ribosome biogenesis and its link to defects in tooth and craniofactial development.
For more information on the link between ribosome biogenesis and craniofacial development check out the following publications from the Baserga lab:
- The Ribosome Biogenesis Factor Nol11 Is Required for Optimal rDNA Transcription and Craniofacial Development in Xenopus. (https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1005018)
- The Contributions of the Ribosome Biogenesis Protein Utp5/WDR43 to Craniofacial Development. (https://doi.org/10.1177/0022034516651077)
- Expression of ribosomopathy genes during Xenopus tropicalisembryogenesis (https://bmcdevbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12861-016-0138-5)