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Janet Rossant

Appointment

  • Advisor
  • Humans & the Microbiome

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Rossant Lab

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Janet Rossant, a developmental biologist, is an expert in stem cell research.
She studies the development of early mouse embryos to better understand human embryonic and stem cell development. Her work on the genetic control of early development led to an understanding of the origins of pluripotent stem cells and the discovery of trophoblast stem cells that give rise to the placenta. Rossant is intrigued by the potential interactions between the maternal microbiome and stem cell origins.

Awards

  • Gairdner Wightman Award, 2015
  • DSc (honoris causa), University of British Columbia, 2014
  • Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences (U.S.A.), 2008
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of London, 2000
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, 1993

Relevant Publications

  • Wong, A.P. et al. “Directed differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells into mature airway epithelia expressing functional CFTR protein.” Nat. Biotechnol. 30, no. 9 (September 2012): 876–82.

  • Yamanaka, Y. et al. “FGF signal-dependent segregation of primitive endoderm and epiblast in the mouse blastocyst.” Development 137, no. 5 (March 2010): 715–24.

  • Chazaud, C. et al. “Early lineage segregation between epiblast and primitive endoderm in mouse blastocysts through the Grb2-Mapk pathway.” Dev. Cell 10, no. 5 (May 2006): 615–24.

  • Niwa, H. et al. “Interaction between Oct3/4 and Cdx2 Determines trophectoderm differentiation.” Cell 123, no. 5 (December 2005): 917–29.

  • Rossant, J., and P.P.L. Tam, eds. Mouse Development: Patterning, Morphogenesis, and Organogenesis. San Diego: Academic Press, 2002.

Institution

  • Hospital for Sick Children
  • University of Toronto

Department

Department of Molecular Genetics

Education

  • PhD (Mammalian Development), Cambridge University
  • BA (MA) Honours (Zoology), Oxford University

Country

  • Canada

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