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J. Matthew Kofron, PhD

Research Associate, Division of Developmental Biology

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Phone: 513-636-4425

Fax: 513-636-4317

Email: matthew.kofron@cchmc.org

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Specialties

Early vertebrate patterning; germ layer formation

Education and Training

PhD: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 1999.

Publications

Kofron M, Demel T, Xanthos J, Lohr J, Sun B, Sive H, Osada S, Wright C, Wylie C, Heasman J. Mesoderm induction in Xenopus is a zygotic event regulated by maternal VegT via TGFbeta growth factors. Development. 1999 126:5759-5770.

Heasman J, Kofron M, Wylie C. Beta-catenin signaling activity dissected in the early Xenopus embryo: a novel antisense approach. Developmental Biology. 2000 222:124-134.

Xanthos JB, Kofron M, Wylie C, Heasman J. Maternal VegT is the initiator of a molecular network specifying endoderm in Xenopus laevis. Development. 2001 128(2):167-180.