Kathy Davidson,Postdoctoral Fellow
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I joined the Nagy group in 2015 and manage the satellite lab at the Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute (ARMI) at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. My research is focused on understanding the intrinsic and extrinsic factors that govern cell fate. In particular, I am interested in understanding how stem cells are regulated and behave in various native and artificially induced states of pluripotency. My previous work with Wnt/beta-catenin signaling sparked this interest, since Wnt signaling can act as both a positive or negative regulator of stem cell self-renewal, depending on the pluripotent state. Greater knowledge of the process of cell state change may enable us to generate alternative cell types with therapeutic relevance.
