| Department of Biology, U.Va.

Department of Biology

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Faculty Listing

Emeritus Professor of Biology

Janis Antonovics

Research Professor of Biology

Associate Professor of Biology

Professor of Biology, Cell Biology, and Neuroscience

Edmund D. Brodie III

B.F.D. Runk Professor in Botany

Assistant Professor of Biology

Jianhua 'JC' Cang

Paul T. Jones Jefferson Scholars Foundation Professor of Neuroscience, Director of Undergraduate Program in Neuroscience

Research Professor of Environmental Sciences; Director, Blandy Experimental Farm (Courtesy Appointment)

Professor of Biology

Associate Professor of Biology

Claire Cronmiller

Emerita Professor of Biology

Assistant Professor of Biology

Christopher Deppmann

Professor of Biology

Douglas W. DeSimone

Ivy Foundation Pratt Distinguished Professor of Morphogenesis, Chair of Cell Biology (Courtesy Appointment)

Emeritus Professor of Biology

Charles R. Farber

Director, Center for Public Health Genomics; Associate Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences (Courtesy Appointment)

Anthony Frankfurter

Emeritus Professor of Biology

Wolfgang Otto Friesen

Emeritus Professor of Biology

Commonwealth Professor of Biology; Associate Dean for the Sciences and Research

Reginald Garrett

Emeritus Professor of Biology

Assistant Professor of Biology

Professor of Pediatrics (Courtesy Appointment)

Robert Grainger

W. L. Lyons Brown Professor of Biology

Associate Professor of Biology, Director of Graduate Studies

Jennifer Güler

Associate Professor of Biology

Associate Professor, Cell Biology (Courtesy Appointment)

Professor of Biology

Katja Kasimatis

Assistant Professor of Biology

Masashi Kawasaki

Professor of Biology

Alumni Council Thomas Jefferson Professor of Biology

David Kittlesen

Associate Professor of Biology, General Faculty

Keith Kozminski

Associate Professor of Biology and Cell Biology

Robert Kretsinger

Emeritus Professor of Biology

Professor of Biology; Director, Program in Fundamental Neuroscience; Co-Director of the Brain Institute

Saurabh Kulkarni

Assistant Professor, Cell Biology, Center for Membrane and Cell Physiology (Courtesy Appointment)

Assistant Professor of Biology

Associate Professor of Biology and Psychology

Professor, Cell Biology (Courtesy Appointment)

Jessamyn Manson

Assistant Professor of Biology, General Faculty, Director of Undergraduate Programs in Biology

Assistant Professor of Biology, General Faculty

Daniel McIntyre

Assistant Professor

Deforest Mellon, Jr.

Emeritus Professor of Biology

J. James Murray

Emeritus Professor of Biology

Professor of Biology, General Faculty, Director of Plant Growth Facilities; Associate Director, Mountain Lake Biological Station

Eyleen Jorgelina O'Rourke

Associate Professor of Biology and Cell Biology

Assistant Professor of Biology

Pratt-Ivy Foundation Distinguished Professor of Morphogenesis

Ammasi Periasamy

Research Professor of Biology and Biomedical Engineering; Center Director, WM Keck Center for Cellular Imaging

Ignacio Provencio

Professor of Biology, Assoc. Chair of Biology

Stephen S. Rich

Director, Center for Public Health Genomics; Harrison Professor of Public Health Sciences (Courtesy Appointment)

Emerita Professor of Biology

Dorothy Schafer

Emerita Professor of Biology

Assistant Professor of Biology

Assistant Dean and Associate Professor of Biology

Associate Professor, Neuroscience (Courtesy Appointment)

Associate Professor of Biology

Commonwealth Professor of Biology, Chair of Biology

Michael P. Timko

Lewis & Clark Professor of Biology, Professor of Public Health Science, Director of Human Biology Distinguished Major Program

Emeritus Professor of Biology

Bettina Winckler

Professor of Cell Biology (Courtesy Appointment)

Assistant Professor

Michael Wormington

Associate Professor of Biology, Faculty Fellow Jefferson Scholars Foundation, Director of the Distinguished Major Program in Biology

Associate Professor of Biology

Ariel Pani

Assistant Professor of Biology

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(434) 243-6413

Laboratory Website

Education

B.A., Cornell University, College Scholar in Organismal Biology, 2004
Ph.D., The University of Chicago, Evolutionary Biology, 2013
Postdoctoral, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2013-2019

Recent Publications

Gordon KL*, Payne SG*, Linden-High LM*, Pani AM, Goldstein B, Hubbard JA, Sherwood DR. Ectopic germ cells can induce niche-like enwrapment by body wall muscle. Current Biology 29: 828-833.e5
Pani AM, Goldstein B (2018) Direct visualization of a native Wnt in vivo reveals that a long-range Wnt gradient forms by extracellular dispersal. eLife 7:e38325 DOI: 10.7554/eLife.38325 (recommended by F1000)
Heppert JK, Pani AM, Roberts AM, Dickinson DJ, Goldstein B (2018) A CRISPR tagging-based screen reveals localized players in Wnt-directed asymmetric cell division. Genetics 208: 1147-1164 (cover article)
Darras S, Fritzenwanker J, Uhlinger K, Farrelly E, Pani AM, Hurley I, Norris R, Osowitz M, Terasaki M, Wu M, Aronowicz J, Kirschner M, Gerhart J, Lowe CJ (2018) Anteroposterior patterning by early canonical Wnt signaling during hemichordate development. PLoS Biology 16: e2003698
Linden LM, Gordon KL, Pani AM, Payne SG, Garde A, Burkholder D, Chi Q, Goldstein B, Sherwood DR (2017) Identification of regulators of germ stem cell enwrapment by its niche in C. elegans. Developmental Biology 429: 271-284
Dickinson DJ, Pani AM, Heppert J, Higgins CD, Goldstein B (2015) Streamlined genome engineering with a self-excising drug selection cassette. Genetics 200: 1035-1049. (more than 500 Addgene plasmid requests)