Assistant professor
University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States
Jimmy is an Assistant Professor at the UCLA School of Dentistry. He completed his Ph.D. in Genetics in Dr. Cliff Tabin’s laboratory at Harvard University, where he demonstrated the function of signaling centers in patterning the skeletal and muscular structures of the vertebrate limb along different axes. He then carried out his postdoctoral training in Dr. Ophir Klein’s laboratory at UCSF, where he uncovered the functional requirement of YAP and its upstream regulation during mouse tooth development and regeneration. In his lab at UCLA, he and his team use the mouse dentition and mandible as model systems to investigate how signaling cues and tissue mechanical forces modulate cell behaviors to generate the correct tissue shapes and cellular organizations during development and regeneration. Ultimately, the goal is to extract principal mechanisms learned from these studies to design strategies for regenerating craniofacial structures.
Mechanobiology in Organ Development and Regeneration
Saturday, March 23, 2024
2:15pm – 3:45pm US EDT
Shaping the Developing Tooth and Mandible via Biomechanical Regulation
Saturday, March 23, 2024
3:30pm – 3:45pm US EDT
