Lian Ma
Lian Ma
Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Dermatology
Washington University School of Medicine, United States
Biography
Dr. Lian Ma has done his Ph.D in biochemistry and
molecular biology from University of Southern California, Los Angeles, in 1995. He did his training, in1997-2000, as Postdoctoral fellow, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston.Currently he is working as Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Dermatology, Washington University School of Medicine. Some of his selected publications are : Yin Y, Lin C, Kim ST, Roig I, Chen H, Liu L, Veith GM, Jin RU, Keeney S, Jasin M, Moley K, Zhou P, Ma L. The E3 ubiquitin ligase Cullin 4A regulates meiotic progression in mouse spermatogenesis. Dev Biol. 2011 356: 51-62. Lin C,Fisher AV,Yin Y, Maruyama T, Veith GM, Dhandha M, Huang GJ, Hsu W, Ma L. The inductive role of Wnt-ß-Catenin signaling in the formation of oral apparatus. Dev. Biol. 2011 356: 40-50. Lin C, Yin Y, Veith GM, Fisher AV, Long F, Ma L. Temporal and spatial dissection of SHH signaling in genital tubercle development. Development 2009 136:3959-3967. Liu, L, Lee S, Zhang J, Peters SB, Zhang Y, Yin Y, Koff A, Ma L, Zhou P. CUL4A abrogation augments DNA damage response and protection against
skin carcinogenesis. Molecular Cell 2009 34:451–460. Cai J, Lee J, Kopan R, Ma L. Genetic interplays between Msx2 and Foxn1 are required for Notch1 expression and hair shaft differentiation. Developmental Biology 2009 326:420-430.
Research Interest
Hair biology, female reproductive tract development, transcription factors regulating uterine epithelial differentiation