Center for Craniofacial Innovation goes to Shriners Children's State of Science

Our team recently attended the Shriners Children's State of Science research conference in Boston, MA on April 25-26. Clinicians and researchers from across the Shriners Children's system gathered at the Shriners Children's Boston campus to share their research, with focus on burns, cleft lip, and cleft palate.

The Center for Craniofacial Innovation team shared their exciting science, highlighted below:

• Center director Dr. Eric Liao gave a presentation titled "Bridging the genomics translation gap in craniofacial anomalies."

• Principal investigator Dr. Justin Cotney gave a presentation titled "Gene expression patterns of the developing human face at single cell resolution reveals cell type contributions to normal face variation and disease risk."

• Postdoctoral fellow Dr. Sogand Schafer gave a presentation titled "Requirement of Nuclear vs. Cytoplasmic Localization of ESRP1/2 in Craniofacial Development."

• Postdoctoral fellow Dr. Scott Tucker gave a presentation titled "Functional analysis of CTNND1 Variants in Orofacial Cleft Pathogenesis."

• Postdoctoral fellow Dr. Caroline Caetano da Silva presented her poster titled "Identification and characterization of ctnnd1, an orofacial cleft gene, and its isoforms."

• Postdoctoral fellow Dr. Emily Yu presented her poster titled "Expression of alx paralogs during zebrafish craniofacial development reveals distinctive spatiotemporal domains."

Congratulations all!