Peter W. Reddien
Associate Professor
BIOLOGY
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
United States of America
Biography
Reddien joined Whitehead Institute in 2005. He obtained his PhD in biology from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and completed his undergraduate studies in molecular biology at the University of Texas at Austin.
Research Interest
Regeneration of tissues and organs is one of the great unsolved mysteries of biology. Whitehead Member Peter W. Reddien works to shed light on that mystery through research on the planarian Schmidtea mediterranea, a flatworm with regenerative powers that have captured the imagination of biologists for more than a century.
Publications
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Reddien, P. W., Oviedo, N. J., Jennings, J. R., Jenkin, J. C., & Alvarado, A. S. (2005). SMEDWI-2 is a PIWI-like protein that regulates planarian stem cells. Science, 310(5752), 1327-1330.
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Reddien, P. W., & Horvitz, H. R. (2000). CED-2/CrkII and CED-10/Rac control phagocytosis and cell migration in Caenorhabditis elegans. Nature cell biology, 2(3), 131.
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Reddien, P. W., & Alvarado, A. S. (2004). Fundamentals of planarian regeneration. Annu. Rev. Cell Dev. Biol., 20, 725-757.
