Vivian Lee, PhD

Titles
Investigator, Children's Research Institute; assistant professor, Pediatrics, (Gastroenterology, Nutrition and Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy), Medical College of Wisconsin.

Division
Gastroenterology and Nutrition

Research interests
Cell and developmental biology

Study interests
Cell differentiation, cell migration, craniofacial development,enteric nervous system, neural crest development, peripheral nervous system.

Education
Doctorate, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, Ore., 2001; post-doctoral training, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, 2005.

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. Restricted Response of Mesencephalic Neural Crest to Sympathetic Differentiation Signals in the Trunk. Developmental Biology. 2005; 278:175-192.
• Willer GB, Lee VM, Gregg RG, Link BA. Analysis of Zebrafish: Perplexed Mutation Reveals Tissue Specific Roles for de novo Pyrimidine Synthesis During Development. Genetics. 2005; 170:1827-37.
• McKeown SJ, Lee VM, Bronner-Fraser M, Newgreen DF, Farlie PG. Sox10 Induces Neural Crest from all Dorsoventral Levels of the Neural Tube and Maintains an Undifferentiated State. Developmental Dynamics.2005; 233:420-44.

Grants

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

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