Developmental Biology Program

The Alexandra Joyner Lab

Research

Alexandra Joyner, PhD

Professor

The Joyner lab studies how genes regulate the cell behaviors (proliferation, differentiation, migration) that underlie organ development, tissue repair and cancer. They focus on the brain where stem cells must produce hundreds of cell types at the right times and in the correct numbers, and the cells then migrate to the correct positions and synapse with partners. The lab uses sophisticated mouse genetics approaches to probe how cell-cell communication and cell intrinsic genetic programs determine the way by which normal cerebellar circuitry is established and regulates behaviors, or are disrupted in diseases including cancer.

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Research Projects

Featured News

At Work: Developmental Biologist Alexandra Joyner

Alexandra Joyner Elected to the Institute of Medicine

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Publications

Bayin N.S., Wojcinski A., Mourton A., Saito H., Suzuki N., Joyner A.L. (2018). Age-dependent dormant resident progenitors are stimulated by injury to regenerate Purkinje neurons. Elife. doi: 10.7554/eLife.39879.

Roselló-Díez A., Madisen L., Bastide S., Zeng H., Joyner A.L. (2018). Cell-nonautonomous local and systemic responses to cell arrest enable long-bone catch-up growth in developing mice. PLoS Biol. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.2005086.

Tan*, I. L., Wojcinski*, A., Rallapalli, H., Lao, Z., Sanghrajka, R. M., Stephen, D., Volkova, E., Korshunov, A., Remke, M., Taylor, M. and Joyner, A. L. (2018). Lateral cerebellum is preferentially sensitive to high sonic hedgehog signaling and medulloblastoma formation. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 115:3392-2297. doi:10.1073/pnas.1717815115 * equal contributions

Roselló-Díez, A.K., Stephen, D. and Joyner, A.L. (2017) Altered paracrine signaling from the injured knee joint impairs postnatal long bone growth. eLIFE, 6: e27210.

Wojcinski, A., Lawton, A., Bayin, N.S., Lao, Z., Stephen, D. and Joyner, A.L. (2017) Cerebellar granule cell replenishment postinjury by adaptive reprogramming of Nestin+ progenitors. Nature Neuroscience, 20:1361-1370. dos: 10.1038/nn.4621

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People

Alexandra Joyner, PhD

Professor

The Joyner laboratory studies the involvement of Hedgehog signaling and transcription factors in cerebellum development, regeneration and cancer.
PhD, University of Toronto

joynera@mskcc.org: Email Address
212-639-3962: Office Phone

Members

N. Sumru Bayin, Ph.D. — N. Sumru Bayin
Postdoctoral Research Fellow - NYSTEM Training Award at the CSCB

Salsabiel El Nagar

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Reeti Mayur Sanghrajka, Graduate Student — Reeti Mayur Sanghrajka
Graduate Student

Zhimin (Jimmy) Lao
Senior Research Assistant

Daniel Stephen
Senior Research Technician

Lab Affilations

Get in Touch

joynera@mskcc.org

Lab Head Email
212-639-3962

Office Phone
212-639-3980

Lab Phone

Disclosures

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Alexandra Joyner discloses the following relationships and financial interests:

Science Advances
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