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     The work in our lab is focused on identifying the molecular networks that are essential for early heart development and how sex difference in these networks lead to sex disparities in heart disease. For these studies, we use a highly integrated approach that incorporates developmental, genetic, proteomic, biochemical and molecular based studies in mouse and stem cells. 

Recent advances and projects of interest in the Conlon lab include studies that define the cellular and molecular events that lead to cardiac septation, those that explore cardiac interaction networks as determinants of transcriptional specificity, the mechanism and function of cardiac transcriptional repression networks, and the regulatory networks of cardiac morphogenesis.

C. Wilczweski, 2018, PNAS

This b-mode video displays a novel technique pioneered by a Conlon Lab graduate student: in-utero Doppler echocardiography of an e10.5 mouse embryo 

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3D projection of an isolated cardiomyocyte performed by a Conlon Lab graduate student, Ike Emerson

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