Vivian Lee, PhD

Pediatric Gastroenterology

Title(s): Assistant professor, Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition and Department of Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy, Medical College of Wisconsin.

Education: PhD, Oregon Health Sciences University, 2001; post-doctoral training, California Institute of Technology, 2005.

Research interests: Neural crest development, peripheral nervous system, craniofacial development, enteric nervous system and cell migration cell differentiation.

Representative publications:

• Lee VM, Tan-Cabugao J, Orentas RJ, DeBellard ME, Bronner-Fraser M. Profiling of Genes Involved in Cessation of Neural Crest Migration and Onset of Gangliogenesis. Manuscript in preparation.
• Knecht AK*,  Lee VM*, Khudyakov J, Martin GR, Bronner-Fraser M. FGF2 and BMP2 Cooperate to Induce Cartilage from Neural Crest.  In revision for Developmental Biology.
• Lee VM, Bronner-Fraser M, Baker CVH. (2005) Restricted Response of Mesencephalic Neural Crest to Sympathetic Differentiation Signals in the Truck. Developmental Biology. 278: 175-192.
• Willer GB, Lee VM, Gregg RG, Link BA. (2005) Analysis of Zebrafish Perplexed Mutation Reveals Tissue Specific Roles for de novo Pyrimidine Synthesis During Development. Genetics, 170:1827-37.
• McKeown SJ, Lee VM, Bronner-Fraser M, Newgreen DF, Farlie PG. (2005) Sox10 Induces Neural Crest from all Dorsoventral Levels of the Neural Tube and Maintains an Undifferentiated State. Developmental Dynamics. 233:420-44.

Current grants:

• Migration and Differentiation of Neural Crest Cells, March of Dimes. Principal investigator.
• Neural Crest Cell Development, Children's Research Institute. Principal investigator.

Contact information: 8701 Watertown Plank Road, Wauwatosa, WI 53226. Phone: (414) 456-4615. Fax: (414) 266-3676. E-mail: vlee@mcw.edu.