Alex Bortvin

Staff Member


MD, MS (Biochemistry)
Pirogov’s Moscow Medical Institute

Ph.D. (Genetics)
Harvard University

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Alex Bortvin

BORTVIN LAB


RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Origin of germ cells
  • Role of developmental pluripotency-associated genes in control of development
  • Epigenetic programming of development

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

Bortvin A, Eggan K, Skaletsky H, Akutsu H, Berry DL, Yanagimachi R, Page DC, Jaenisch R.
Incomplete reactivation of Oct4-related genes in mouse embryos cloned from somatic nuclei.
Development. 2003 Apr;130(8):1673-80.

Bortvin A, Goodheart M, Liao M, Page DC.
Dppa3 / Pgc7 / stella is a maternal factor and is not required for germ cell specification in mice.
BMC Dev Biol. 2004 Feb 23;4(1):2.


LAB MEMBERS

Julio Castaneda, Predoc Fellow
Tara Hardiman, Technician
Safia Malki, P/D Fellow
Ina Soh, Research Undergrad
Godfried Van der Heijden, P/D Fellow