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The Barresi Lab studies brain development in zebrafish.
Dr. Barresi is co-author of the textbook “Developmental Biology”

Contact the Barresi Lab:
Michael J.F. Barresi, mbarresi@smith.edu

Office ph. 413.585.3697
Lab ph. 413.585.3961

44 College Lane
Clark Science Center
Smith College, Northampton, MA 01063

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Select Publications

Johnson K, et al. Gfap-positive radial glial cells are an essential progenitor population for later-born neurons and glia in the zebrafish spinal cord. Glia. 2016 Jul;64(7):1170-89.

Hoffman et al (collaboration with Giraldez Lab). Estrogens Suppress a Behavioral Phenotype in Zebrafish Mutants of the Autism Risk Gene, CNTNAP2. Neuron. 2016 Feb 17;89(4):725-33.

Kif11 dependent cell cycle progression in radial glial cells is required for proper neurogenesis in the zebrafish neural tube. Johnson K, et al 2014. J. Dev Biol. 387(1):73-92.

de Soysa TY, et al 2012. Macondo crude oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disrupts specific developmental processes during zebrafish embryogenesis. BMC Biol. 10: 40.

Lab News

-Barresi Lab awarded a 4 yr ABR:RUI grant (600K) from the NSF to study zebrafish forebrain development.

-Special Congrats to Carla Velez, Barresi Lab Everything, who is now Science Teacher in Holyoke School System.

-A shout out to doctoral Candidate Jake Schnabl, Well done on your first platform talk at SDB conf!

-Congrats to Morgan Schwartz who won best poster awards at the recent Dev. Bio conference at the MBL in Woods Hole MA (as well as 2017 National SDB conference). Amazing job!!

-Congrats to Katrina Anderson, Emilie Jones and Morgan Schwartz for completing their Honors Theses!

-Amazing things to come for Barresi Lab grads:
Katrina Anderson to Teach for American
Emilie Jones to Tufts for Ph.D.
Janell Lin to Univ of Toronto for Biomedical Communications
Vivian Morris to George Daley lab at Harvard Stem Cell Institute
Anja Nordstrom pursing Scientific Illustration
Emily Raphael pursing Masters in Education
Morgan Schwartz to Cal Tech for Ph.D.

-Congrats to past students:
Kathryn Berg into Ph.D. program at Yale
Caterina Sakai into Ph.D. program at Univ WA
Rachel Stein; awarded an NSF predoc fellowship

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