lab profile
Clifton Ragsdale University of Chicago
Dept. Neurobiology
947 E 58th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
USA
cragsdale@uchicago.edu
773-702-9609
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| PI: |
YES |
| Taxa Studied: |
Invertebrate Animals, Vertebrate Animals |
| Techniques Employed: |
Degenerate PCR, Sanger Sequencing, Solexa (Illumina) Sequencing, SOLiD Sequencing, Bioinformatics/Sequence Analysis, In Situ Hybridization, Antibody Staining, Sectioning for Histology, Epifluoresence Microscopy, Confocal Microscopy, Transgenesis, Other, tissue culture |
| Research Description: |
We study the evolutionary developmental biology of the neocortex in mammals and of neocortical cell types in non-mammalian vertebrates. We also study the embryology and neural systems organization of a cephalopod, Octopus bimaculoides. |
| Lab Web Page: |
http://ragslab.bsd.uchicago.edu/ |
| Willing to Host Undergraduates: |
YES |
| Actively Seeking Undergraduates: |
YES |
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