Edward Hedgecock
Professor
Department of Biology
Johns Hopkins University
United States of America
Biography
Edward Hedgecock received his PhD from the University of California, Santa Cruz. He went on to complete his postdoctoral work at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, U.K. as well as the Roche Institute of Molecular Biology.
Research Interest
Developmental genetics of the nervous system of Caenorhabditis elegans
Publications
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Dong C, Muriel JM, Ramirez S, Hutter H, Hedgecock EM, Breydo L, Baskakov IV, Vogel BE. (2006). Hemicentin assembly in the extracellular matrix is mediated by distinct structural modules. J Biol Chem. 8;281(33):23606-10.
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Walston T, Guo C, Proenca R, Wu M, Herman M, Hardin J, Hedgecock E. (2006). mig-5/Dsh controls cell fate determination and cell migration in C. elegans. Dev Biol. 298:485-97.
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Ikeda DD, Duan Y, Matsuki M, Kunitomo H, Hutter H, Hedgecock EM, Iino Y. (2008). CASY-1, an ortholog of calsyntenins/alcadeins, is essential for learning in Caenorhabditis elegans. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 105(13):5260-5.
