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Vanessa Barone is an assistant professor in the Department of Biology at Stanford University. She studied molecular biology at the University of Science in Turin, Italy, and pursued her PhD in the Carl-Philipp Heisenberg group at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria in Vienna. Her research focuses on the regulation of cell-cell contacts and their influence on cell differentiation in developing embryos, specifically within the context of evolutionary developmental biology. After completing her doctorate, she joined the group of Deirdre Lyons at the University of California, San Diego, to explore comparative models using sea urchin and sea star embryos. Her work investigates the role of cell-cell contacts in the evolution of mesendodermal tissue patterning. At Stanford, Vanessa aims to further understand how variations in cell behavior determine the physical properties of embryos and their implications for evolution and development.
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