Our research lab is a part of the Department of Biological Sciences at Mount Holyoke College, and is supervised by Associate Professor Craig T. Woodard. We study the molecular mechanisms whereby steroid hormones control a wide range of developmental processes in higher organisms.

Click HERE to see Movies of Fly Leg Development (mutant and control) from our new paper in Developmental Dynamics (Fortier, T. M., Chatterjee, R., Klinedinst, S., Baehrecke, E.H., and Woodard, C.T. (2006). how functions in leg development during Drosophila metamorphosis. Developmental Dynamics: 235: 2248-2259)

Click HERE to see Movies of Fly Leg Development (mutant and control) from our 2003 paper in Developmental Biology (Fortier, T.M., Vasa, P.P., and Woodard, C.T. (2003). Orphan Nuclear Receptor ßFTZ-F1 is Required for Muscle-Driven Morphogenetic Events at the Prepupal-Pupal Transition in Drosophila melanogaster. Developmental Biology. 257: 153-165)

Click HERE to see some of the labs that we've developed with funds from our ILI-IP Grant (DUE-9750671) from the National Science Foundation

Last Modified 14 September, 2006 Woodard Lab Home Page Craig T. Woodard