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Office Location:
405 Salk Pavilion

Mailing address:
335 Sutherland Dr., 405 SalkP, Pittsburgh PA 15217

Email: don11@pitt.edu

Phone: 412-624-9552

Assistant:
Michele Leahy   mmp2@pitt.edu

Other Affiliations:
Center for Craniofacial Regeneration, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine

MEMBERS

Dobrawa Napierala, PhD

PCIBMR Co-Director
PCIBMR Cell & Tissue Characterization Core Director

Associate Professor, Department of Oral and Craniofacial Sciences
University of Pittsburgh School of Dental Medicine

Technique Expertise or Resources to share

Technique expertise:

    • Molecular and cellular biology of the mineralization process.
    • Genetic diseases and animal models of skeletal and dental development and homeostasis.
    • Phosphate signaling in mineralizing tissues.
    • Biogenesis of mineralization-competent extracellular vesicles

Resources to share:
 

    • Trps1+/-, Trps1fl/fl, Col1a1-Trps1 mice

Keywords

Mineralization, matrix vesicles, transcription, phosphate

Laboratory

Lab Members

Sana Khalid postdoc sak242@pitt.edu
Mairobys Socorro postdoc mas624@pitt.edu