Dr Claire Anderson

I am a postdoctoral research associate in the department of Cell and Developmental Biology, UCL. My project aims to characterise organisers, which are specialised regions within the embryo that are unique in their ability to both induce and pattern their neighbouring tissues. We are interested in charaterising the transcription factors that impart organisers with their identity, as well as the signalling molecules that are responsible for the function of organisers. E-mail: claire.anderson@ucl.ac.uk

Profile

2002-2005: BSc. Biomedical Science, University of Sheffield.
2005-2010: Ph.D. in Developmental Biology, University of Sheffield.
2010-present Postdoctoral research associate, Cell and Developmental Biology, UCL.

Publications

• Anderson, C. Winder, S. and Borycki, AG. 2007. Dystroglycan Protein Distribution Coincides Basement Membranes and Muscle Differentiation During Mouse Embryogenesis. Dev Dyn. 236:2627-35. Pubmed
• Anderson, C. Thorsteinsdottir, S. and Borycki, AG. 2009. Sonic Hedgehog-dependant synthesis of Laminin a1 controls basement membrane assembly in the myotome. Development. 136:3495-3504. Pubmed
• Anderson, C. Williams, VC. Moyon, B. Daubas, P. Tajbakhsh, S. Buckingham, ME. Shiroishi, T. Hughes, SM. Borycki, AG. 2012. Sonic hedgehog acts cell-autonomously on muscle precursor cells to generate limb muscle diversity. Genes Dev. 26;2103-2117. Pubmed
• Wong F, Welten MC, Anderson C, Bain AA, Liu J, Wicks MN, Pavlovska G, Davey MG, Murphy P, Davidson D, Tickle CA, Stern CD, Baldock RA, Burt DW. 2013. eChickAtlas: An introduction to the database. Genesis. 51:365-71. Pubmed
• Anderson C, Stern CD. 2016. Organizers in development. Curr Top Dev Biol. 117:435-54. Pubmed
• Anderson C, Khan MA, Wong F, Solovieva T, Oliveira NM, Baldock RA, Tickle C, Burt DW, Stern, CD. 2016. A strategy to discover new organizers identifies a putative heart organizer. Nat Commun. 7:12656. Pubmed

Conferences and Meetings

• BSDB Autumn Symposium, Dundee, 2006. A Role for Shh Signalling in Myotome Formation in the Mouse Embryo.

• MyoRes Congress, Prague, 2006. A Role for Shh and Gli Signalling in Hypaxial Myogenesis in Mouse Embryos.

• Cells into Organs, Toulon, 2007. The Role of Sonic Hedgehog signalling in myotome formation in the mouse embryo.

• BSDB Spring Symposium, Warwick, 2007. A Role for Sonic Hedgehog in Myotomal Basement Membrane Formation.

• Mechanisms of Development, Lisbon, 2007. A Role for Sonic Hedgehog in Myotomal Basement Membrane Formation.

• MyoRes Congress, Venice, 2007. Shh signalling in appendicular skeletal muscle formation.

• EMBO Conference I: The Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms Regulating Skeletal Muscle Development and Regeneration, Spain, 2008. A Role for Sonic Hedgehog in Myotomal Basement Membrane Formation.

• 2nd Muscle-Cells-Development meeting, King's College London, 2009. Sonic Hedgehog-dependant synthesis of Laminin a1 controls basement membrane assembly in the myotome.
• 6th International Chick Meeting, The Roslin Institute, 2011. The Search for New Organisers.
• Chick 7: Avian Model Systems. 7th International Chick Meeting, Nagoya, Japan 2012. A Search for New Organisers.