Valerie Horsley, PhD
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Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology and Associate Professor of Dermatology
Biography
Valerie Horsley began her scientific training as an undergraduate at Furman University and was awarded her Ph.D. from Emory University. After completing a Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation postdoctoral fellowship in Elaine Fuchs’ laboratory at Rockefeller University, Valerie started her independent laboratory at Yale University in the Department of Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology. Horsley’s lab uses the mouse as a genetic model system to study how adult stem cells within epithelial tissues maintain tissue homeostasis, can contribute to wound healing, and can be a factor in cancer formation. She is now the Maxine F. Singer Associate Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology at Yale, has received a number of awards including the Pew Scholar Award, Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, and the Rosalind Franklin Young Investigator Award.
Appointments
Dermatology
ProfessorSecondary
Other Departments & Organizations
- All Institutions
- Biochemistry, Quantitative Biology, Biophysics and Structural Biology (BQBS)
- Cancer Signaling Networks
- Dermatology
- Diabetes Research Center
- Obesity Research Working Group
- Yale Cancer Center
- Yale Combined Program in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS)
- Yale Stem Cell Center
- Yale Ventures
Education & Training
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- Rockefeller University (2008)
- PhD
- Emory University (2003)
- BS
- Furman University, Biology (1998)
Research
Overview
We are studying the dynamic interactions between non-epithelial cells in tissues that interface with the environment. Using multi pronged approaches including mouse genetics, cell culture models, genomics and microscopy, we tackle complex biological processes focusing on the contribution of cell-intrinsic and cell-extrinsic factors that contribute to regenerative processes. By leveraging the abundant clinical resources of the Yale medical center and our colleagues in basic stem cell, cell biology, and engineering, we are uniquely able to address clinically relevant questions that have been unexplored for decades.
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Media
- Adiponectin-Cre; mT/mG mice show adipocytes with mG+ membranes surrounding mature hair follicles in the skin