Dale Frank - Principal Investigator

Professor

Department of Biochemistry - Rappaport Faculty of Medicine

Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

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Lab: 04-829-5286 (International: 972-4-829-5286)

dale@technion.ac.il​

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​​I did my Ph.D. at Hebrew University - Hadassah Medical School, under the joint mentorships of Professors Howard Cedar and Aharon Razin. I studied the "wonderful" nature of how DNA methylation patterns are established in embryonic cells. Next, I spent 3-years at the University of California, Berkeley, in the lab of Professor Richard Harland, learning the "enchanted" world of Xenopus laevis development.  My lab at the Technion enthusiastically exploits the accessible Xenopus system to investigate the earliest events regulating nervous system cell fate formation in vertebrate embryos. We leverage the vertebrate frog embryo as a "simplified" system to recapitulate and understand the etiology of genetic disease caused by the disruption of early human nervous system development.