Crystal Rogers
Assistant Professor
Biology
California State University
United States of America
Biography
Originally from the wine country in Northern California, I moved to Southern California in 1997 to attend UCLA. I received my B.S. in biology from UCLA in December of 2001. After I graduated I worked with J. Patrick Johnson at Cedars Sinai for a year and a half and then took a big leap and moved across the U.S. to attend graduate school at Georgetown University. I began graduate school in August of 2003 and quickly joined the lab of Elena Casey in the Department of Biology. I was in the Casey lab for five and a half years studying early neural development in the African claw-toed frog, Xenopus laevis. I received by PhD from Georgetown in 2009 and moved to the California Institute of Technology in January of 2010 where I was a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Marianne Bronner in the Division of Biology and Biological Engineering. Currently, I am an assistant professor in the Department of Biology at CSUN.
Research Interest
Molecular mechanisms that drive neural crest cell development in chicken (Gallus gallus) and axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum) embryos. More specifically, I am interested in identifying and characterizing genes and proteins involved in the specification of these tissues as well as those controlling the epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT), a process that occurs naturally during development and also during cancer transformation.
Publications
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Rogers CD, Ferzli GS, Casey ES. The response of early neural genes to FGF signaling or inhibition of BMP indicate the absence of a conserved neural induction module. BMC developmental biology. 2011 Dec 15;11(1):74.
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Rogers CD, Saxena A, Bronner ME. Sip1 mediates an E-cadherin-to-N-cadherin switch during cranial neural crest EMT. J Cell Biol. 2013 Dec 9;203(5):835-47.
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Jaber S, Rogers C, Sunderland B, Parsons R, MacKenzie S, Seet J, Czarniak P. Appropriateness of surgical antibiotic prophylaxis for breast surgery procedures. International journal of clinical pharmacy. 2017 Apr 1;39(2):483-6.
