Hogan laboratory: Vascular developmental genetics and cell biology
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Head of Laboratory
Professor Ben Hogan
Research Overview
View Professor Hogan's latest PubMed publications listing here.
In the Hogan lab, researchers investigate the development of lymphatic vasculature and the blood brain barrier, which play important roles in the metastatic spread of cancer.
Specifically, we aim to:
- Characterise signalling and transcriptional mechanisms that control lymphangiogenesis using studies in zebrafish and mice.
- Discover genes and mechanisms essential for development of the blood brain barrier using zebrafish genetics.
- Develop imaging methods to visualise signalling in real time during tissue morphogenesis.
- Model cellular pathologies of vasculature in cancer and vascular disease.
Staff
Dr Neil Bower, Postdoc (external)
Dr Elizabeth Mason, Postdoc, Computational Biologist
Dr Kazuhide Okuda , Postdoc
Lin Grimm, Postdoc
Scott Paterson, Research Assistant, Laboratory Manager
Maria Rondon-Galeano, Research Assistant
Research Opportunities
This research project is available to PhD students, Honours students to join as part of their thesis.
Please contact the Research Group Leader to discuss your options.