Jeff-Rasmussen
Jeff Rasmussen
Assistant Professor
371 LSB
(206) 616-7248
Accepting graduate students
Fields of interest
My lab uses the unique experimental advantages of zebrafish to gain cellular, molecular, and genetic insights into skin development and repair, with a particular focus on skin-neuron interactions. Please visit the lab website for more information.
B.S., Brown University (2002)
Ph.D., University of Washington, Seattle (2011)
Postdoc, University of California, Los Angeles (2012-2018)
A conserved morphogenetic mechanism for epidermal ensheathment of nociceptive sensory neurites,
Jiang, Nan, Rasmussen Jeffrey P., Clanton Joshua A., Rosenberg Marci F., Luedke Kory P., Cronan Mark R., Parker Edward D., Kim Hyeon-Jin, Vaughan Joshua C., Sagasti Alvaro, et al.
, Elife, Mar, Volume 8, (2019)
Vertebrate epidermal cells are broad-specificity phagocytes that clear sensory axon debris,
Rasmussen, Jeffrey P., Sack Georgeann S., Martin Seanna M., and Sagasti Alvaro
, J Neurosci, Jan, Volume 35, p.559-70, (2015)