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Mansi Srivastava, PhD

Harvard University, USA

I am deeply interested in understanding animal evolution. My research program at Harvard has focused on wound repair and regeneration, which are fundamental features of animal biology. But little is known about how these pathways compare across animal lineages. I developed the three-banded panther worm, the acoel Hofstenia miama, as a new model system for studying regeneration. Acoels are distantly-related to other regenerative model systems, and therefore our work is uncovering shared principles of regeneration and stem cell biology. Our efforts have turned Hofstenia into a fantastic laboratory research organism that offers many genomic resources and experimental tools such as transgenesis, which enable the study of many questions in this species.

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