Eugene Bell Center for Regenerative Biology and Tissue Engineering
Research in the Center is intended to elucidate the molecular, genetic and cellular mechanisms underlying the growth and replacement of highly differentiated tissues during development, physiological turnover and repair following injury.
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Northern star coral under polychromatic polarization microscope. Credit M. Shribak & L. Roberson
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Frogs in a tank in the National Xenopus Resource.
The National Xenopus Resource

The National Xenopus Resource (NXR) is located at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), and serves as a national stock center for X. laevis and X. tropicalis as well as a training center for advanced technologies (e.g. husbandry, cell biology, imaging, genetics, transgenesis, genomics).

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Bell Center Highlights

Margherita Perillo

Margherita Perillo

Dr. Perillo received the Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (MIRA), which will be used to investigate the conserved mechanisms for building biological tubes with a precise orientation and shape, and the genes that govern this process. Because tubular tissues are broadly employed to build organs, our work will advance our understanding of congenital diseases, aging and fibrosis.

MIRA supports early-stage investigators to develop innovative research programs with a broad impact on human health.

Beverly Naigles

Beverly Naigles

Beverly Naigles has received an NIH F32 NRSA individual postdoctoral fellowship to support her work in Zak Swartz's lab on the interactions between developing oocytes and somatic follicle cells in the sea star ovary. She plans to use this system to uncover possibly conserved mechanisms of ovarian follicle development.

Marko Horb in front of frog tanks in the NXR.

Marko Horb

Senior scientist Marko Horb has received renewed funding for the National Xenopus Resource from the National Institutes of Health. This P40 grant was renewed for five years and supports the maintenance, breeding, and distribution of Xenopus frogs to the research community.

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