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Tudorita Tumbar is a Professor in Molecular Biology and Genetics at Cornell University. Her research focuses on understanding the basic cellular and molecular mechanisms implicated in cell fate choice and stem cell activity in tissues. The research aims to reveal how normal tissue morphogenesis and homeostasis can be deregulated, leading to diseases such as cancer. Tumbar uses a mouse skin model system in her laboratory to employ genetic and genomic approaches, developing and implementing new mouse genetic tools. Her research primarily investigates hair follicle epidermal stem cells, exploring both intrinsic mechanisms like transcription factors and cell-extrinsic mechanisms involving signaling from neighboring cells that govern stem cell behavior during development and repair. With a PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and post-doctoral training at Rockefeller University, she is also a regular NIH grant reviewer and has served on the editorial board of EMBO Journal. She is the founder and chair of the Gordon Research Conference series on Epithelial Stem Cell Niches.
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