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Associate Professor (NYU School of Medicine) B.S. 1990, Yale College; Ph.D. 1996,Harvard University

Coordinator - Developmental Genetics Program
Skirball Institute for Biomolecular Medicine
New York University Medical Center
540 First Avenue
New York, NY 10016
Tel.: (212) 263-2820
Fax: (212) 263-7760
E-mail: yelon@saturn.med.nyu.edu


Representative Publications:
Research Interests Biography Lab Pages


Alexander, J., D.Y.R. Stainier, and D. Yelon (1998). Screening mosaic F1 females for mutations affecting zebrafish heart induction and patterning. Developmental Genetics 22: 288-299.


Yelon, D., S.A. Horne, and D.Y.R. Stainier (1999). Restricted expression of cardiac myosin genes reveals regulated aspects of heart tube assembly in zebrafish. Developmental Biology 214: 23-37.


Yelon, D., B. Ticho, M.E. Halpern, I. Ruvinsky, R.K. Ho, L.M. Silver, and D.Y.R. Stainier (2000). The bHLH transcription factor Hand2 plays parallel roles in zebrafish heart and pectoral fin development. Development 127: 2573-82.


Yelon, D. (2001) Cardiac patterning and morphogenesis in zebrafish.  Developmental Dynamics 222: 552-563. 


Yelon, D., J.L. Feldman, and B.R. Keegan.  (2002)  Genetic regulation of cardiac patterning in zebrafish. Cold Spring Harb Symp Quant Biol 67: 19-25. 


Glickman, N.S. and D. Yelon.  (2002)  Cardiac development in zebrafish: coordination of form and function.  Seminars in Cell & Dev Biol 13: 507-513. 


Keegan, B.R., J.L. Feldman, D.H. Lee, D.S. Koos, R.K. Ho, D.Y.R. Stainier, and D. Yelon. (2002) The elongation factors Pandora/Spt6 and Foggy/Spt5 promote transcription in the zebrafish embryo.  Development 129: 1623-1632.


Berdougo, E., H. Coleman, D.H. Lee, D.Y.R. Stainier, and D. Yelon. (2003) Mutation of weak atrium/atrial myosin heavy chain disrupts atrial function and influences ventricular morphogenesis in zebrafish. Development 130: 6121-6129.


Auman, H. and D. Yelon.  (2004)  Vertebrate organogenesis: getting the heart into shape.  Current Biology 14: R152-R153. 


Glickman, N.S. and D. Yelon.  (2004)  Coordinating morphogenesis: epithelial integrity during heart tube assembly.  Developmental Cell 6: 311-312. 


Keegan, B.R., D. Meyer, and D. Yelon.  (2004)  Organization of cardiac chamber progenitors in the zebrafish blastula.  Development 131: 3081-3091. 


Keegan, B.R., J. Feldman, G. Begemann, P. Ingham, and D. Yelon.  (2005)  Retinoic acid signaling restricts the cardiac progenitor pool.  Science 307: 247-249.


Research is supported by the National Institutes of Health, the March of Dimes, and the American Heart Association.

 

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