Amemiya Laboratory

The Amemiya laboratory uses an interdisciplinary approach in order to better understand evolutionary and developmental aspects of the vertebrate adaptive immune system and the development of morphological structures. The lab is actively utilizing comparative genomics approaches and is involved in construction and utilization of bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) reagents and developing ways in which to employ BACs for functional biology and for making inferences relevant to human medicine.

The Amemiya laboratory is involved in several different lines of investigation:

1. Origins, phyletic diversification and development of the vertebrate immune system

2. Evolution and differentiation of vertebrate development (Hox genes)

3. Development of BAC libraries and of methods for applying BAC reagents to biological studies

The Amemiya Lab

Chris T. Amemiya, PhD, Member
Nil Ratan Saha, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow
Jeramiah Smith, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow
Andrew Brady Stuart, Technical Staff
Michael Rego, Aquatics Technician