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J. Matthew Kofron, PhD

Director, Confocal Imaging Core

Academic Affiliations

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Phone 513-803-9055

Fax 513-636-4317

Email matthew.kofron@cchmc.org

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Research Interests

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Early vertebrate patterning; germ layer formation

Education and Training

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

Publications

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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.