Faculty Profile
Maxwell G. Heiman, PhD
Associate Professor of Genetics and Pediatrics
How cells get their shapes and assemble into organs.
The goal of the Heiman lab is to understand how cells get their shapes and assemble into organs. Defects in this process lead to structural birth defects. We are using forward genetic approaches in C. elegans to identify the genes that give individual cells their characteristic shapes and that specify defined cell-cell contacts.
Affiliations
Harvard Medical School
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