Welcome to the Axelrod Lab! The Axelrod lab is studying developmental patterning events using a combination of genetic, molecular, cell biological and mathematical approaches. We wish to understand how genes orchestrate the elaborate choreography of development to reproducibly give rise to patterns seen in multicellular organisms. We use the fruitfly Drosophila melanogaster and the mouse as model systems in these investigations. Our results are shedding light not only on the mechanisms controlling development, but also on a variety of disease states, including neural tube closure defects, congenital deafness, polycystic kidneys, ciliary dyskinesia and cancer, in which these mechanisms are mis-regulated. Please contact Jeff Axelrod if you are interested in opportunities.