Biology
Nicole

Nicole Theodosiou

Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Yale University, 2000

Research Interests: Evolution and development of the digestive tract.  I study patterning (how different organs are ordered) and morphogenesis (how organs take on their final shape and function) of the digestive tract in vertebrate embryos and how the digestive tract evolved in the vertebrate lineage over 450 million years.

Representative Publications:

  • Theodosiou, N. A. (2012). RNA in situ hybridization in whole mount embryos and cell histology adapted for marine elasmobranchs. JoVE, in press.
  • Theodosiou, N. A. and Parton, A. (2012). Establishing primary cultures of embryonic intestinal cells from the elasmobranch, Leucoraja erinacea. In Vitro Cellular and Developmental Biology – Animal, 48(7):413-417. DOI: 10.1007/s11626-012-9534-8.
  • Theodosiou, N. A. and *Simeone, A. (2012). Evidence of a rudimentary colon in the elasmobranch, Leucoraja erinacea. Development, Genes and Evolution, 222(4):237-43. DOI: 10.1007/s00427-012-0406-8.
  • *Simeone, A. and Theodosiou, N. A. (2010). Measuring water absorption in the digestive tract of Leucoraja erinacea.  The Bulletin MDI Biol Lab, 49:35-6.
  • Richards, E. K., *Simeone, A. and Theodosiou, N. A., (2009).  Water absorption in the spiral intestine of Leucoraja erinacea.  The Bulletin MDI Biol Lab, 48:88-9.
  • Theodosiou, N. A., *Hall, D. A. and Jowdrey, A. L. (2007). Expression of Hoxa13 and Hoxd13 in Raja erinacea suggest an evolutionary role in hindgut patterning.  Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B, 308B(4):442-453.
(* indicates undergraduate co-authors)

Courses: Physiology of Cells and Organisms (BIO 112), Developmental Biology (BIO 354) and Topics in Organismal and Physiological Biology (BIO 488)

email: theodosn@union.edu

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