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| Name: | Kenneth H. Moberg |
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| Position: |
Associate Professor of Cell Biology |
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| Degree: |
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998 |
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| Programs: |
BCDB,
Full Member GMB, Full Member |
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| Phone: | 404 727-3733 | |
| Address: | 442 Whitehead Research Building, 615 Michael St, 1941/001/1AF | |
| Email: | kmoberg@emory.edu | |
| Research Descriptions: | ||
| Short: | A primary interest in developmental control of apoptosis and proliferation, organ and organism growth, and cancer models in Drosophila. A developing interest in a Drosophila model of a novel form of inherited intellectual disability. | |
| Long: |
My lab uses the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster to model fundamental aspects of metazoan development and disease, with a main focus on cancer cell biology and an emerging interest in development of the central nervous system. We currently study (i) the roles of conserved cancer genes such as archipelago, tsg101, myopic and crumbs in the growth, architecture, and morphogenesis of epithelial tissues and (ii) the neurological roles of the conserved poly(A) RNA binding protein dNab2/ZC3H14, which is mutated in a heritable form of autosomal recessive intellectual disability in humans. We are also engaged in productive collaborations to use Drosophila to probe the genetic role of the PABN1 gene in oculopharangeal muscular dystrophy, and to develop a fly model of human galactosemia. |
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