Person
Young, Rodrigo
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Biography and Research Interest
My research is focused on elucidating the genetic, cellular and molecular mechanisms that control eye development and growth. For this, I combine research on zebrafish and the genetic analysis of patients with developmental eye globe defects. The plan is for my research in fish models to feed candidate genes for variant discovery in patients born with very small or no eyes. On the other hand, candidate variants in genes found in these patients will be replicated by genome editing in zebrafish to study their effect on eye development.
Non-Zebrafish Publications
Young, R.M., Solis, C.J., Barriga-Fehrman, A., Abogabir, C., Thadani, A.R., Labarca, M., Bustamante, E., Tapia, C.V., Sarda, A.G., Sepulveda, F., Pozas, N., Cerpa, L.C., Lavanderos, M.A., Varela, N.M., Santibañez, A., Sandino, A.M., Reyes-Lopez, F., Dixon, G. and Quiñones, L.A. (2021) Smartphone Screen Testing, a novel pre-diagnostic method to identify SARS-CoV-2 infectious individuals. eLife 10.7554/eLife.70333
Mayor, R., Guerrero, N. Young, R.M., Gomez-Skarmeta, J.L. and Cuellar, C. (2000) A novel function for the Xslug gene: control of the dorsal endomesoderm by repressing BMP-4. Mech. Dev. 97, 47-56
Mayor, R., Young, R. M. and Vargas, A. (1999) Development of the neural crest in Xenopus. Curr. Top. Dev. Biol. 43, 85-113.